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Makes Understanding Diseases Like Avian Flu Possible
Pitt researcher Suresh Kuchipudi focuses on avian flu and other animal-borne viruses and how they affect humans and animals. He uses a multidisciplinary approach to study the complex interactions between pathogens and their hosts.
Bird flu has been found to have spread from wild birds and poultry to cats and dairy cows with occasional human infections. This heightens public health risk, making it especially urgent to understand how the virus moves among domestic and wild birds, other animals and humans. Kuchipudi鈥檚 research sheds new light on how the virus undergoes genetic changes as it navigates through multiple hosts and adapts in mammals鈥攁 warning sign of increased risk to people.
His research helps us act early鈥攑rotecting animal health, securing food systems and preventing public health crises before they begin.