Walter Harrington
@waltphd
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PhD, MPH | ☧ | Influenza, ducks and the way. The disdain for the Oxford comma was intentional. Postdoc at St. Jude, views my own.
Memphis, TN
Joined January 2014
Got flu questions? Check out my answers to some of the most common flu questions here!
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There are three bird seasons open in Tennessee, and I am an active participant in none of them. 😔.
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4yo: "You starts with a U!". Me: "Well, no, actually 'you' starts with a y.". 4yo: "Why?". Me: "And that actually starts with a w. English is an interesting language buddy.".
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Took us a minute, but we finally got this out there!
nature.com
Nature Communications - Bovine H5N1 viruses are lethal in laboratory animals, but they retain avian traits including limited transmission. Their responsiveness to approved antivirals and candidate...
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I am speaking at #ASV2025. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! - via #Whova event app @AmerSocVirol
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4yo: what’s that?.Me: it’s a duck taxidermy mount.4yo: like, does it drive ducks over to places?. He doesn’t know it, but his dad jokes are already shaping up nicely.
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On a scale of 1 to “I want to sleep inside my pillow case tonight”, how insane are your children?.
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The funny thing about this is that this song came out at the tail end of CD player popularity.
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*we millennials as grandparents*.“You kids and your music these days, you don’t even know what a real, time-tested, classic is.” *pulls out archaic CD player*. RAH RAH OOO LA LA LA.
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But have you heard the sound of a hooded merganser? I was not expecting to hear that. Hypothetically. If that's what I actually was doing. Which it isn't.
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What do I do when I'm traveling for work and I get back to the hotel at night? Umm, definitely not look up what sounds different ducks make. in case you were wondering. Not that. Definitely.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson. I'm talking about Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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New Year's deniers be like "January 1st is just an arbitrary date that holds no astronomical significance.".
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Us: *Listening to AC/DC's Thunderstruck*. Hank: "That sounds like Donald [duck]!".
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Wife: “What are you doing? You seem chipper.”. Me: *definitely not thinking about bird flu…* 🙃.
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RT @outbreakupdates: The birth of a pandemic is so quiet you might miss it. A silent seed planting itself in the world, set to grow into s….
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