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   A Concerned Scientist (be@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 17:25:18 JST A Concerned Scientist

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   I don't really have time today to do a deep dive write-up on these, as I often do for articles. However, if you're interested in the possibility of airborne transmission, where the science has been on this, and how far off the possibility has been(spoiler alert, 5 amino acid substitutions) these articles are a good starting point. I'm also putting them here so I can refer back to them in the future if needed.

   "Influenza A viruses are transmitted via the air from the nasal respiratory epithelium of ferrets"

   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14626-0

   "Airborne Transmission of Influenza A/H5N1 Virus Between Ferrets"

   https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1213362

   "The Potential for Respiratory Droplet–Transmissible A/H5N1 Influenza Virus to Evolve in a Mammalian Host"

   https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1222526

   "A comprehensive review of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1: An imminent threat at doorstep"

   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893923000984

   "The Role of Airborne Particles in the Epidemiology of Clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus in Commercial Poultry Production Units"

   https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/4/1002

   "Influenza: Five questions on H5N1"(which I admittedly mostly found interesting because it extensively quotes Jeremy Farrar 11 years before he became the head of the WHO in 2023)

   https://www.nature.com/articles/486456a