Why do I feel like we're making the same mistakes with bird flu that we did with covid?
Dismissing this case with "oh he had chronic conditions" is extremely dangerous. Not to mention the fact that there's a lot of people who have multiple underlying health conditions.
Johns Hopkins Health Security Decoded, June 6, 2024:
"The 2022-2023 mass die off of South American elephant seals due to H5N1 occurred because the virus acquired nearly 20 mutations that allowed it to spread more efficiently among mammals and cause more severe disease, according to a preprint study. The research team’s combined ecological and phylogenetic data support the first evidence of multinational mammal-to-mammal transmission of H5N1 viruses ever observed. They also found evidence suggesting the virus jumped from sea mammals back into birds. The findings support concerns that H5N1 viruses are becoming more flexible and adapting to mammals."
Make me a a bird flu milkshake please
Something I can drink with ease
Full of viral particles, raw and alive
So my immune system can go into overdrive
Hopefully it won't make me too sick
Or make my eyes bloodshot and snot too thick
Or cause a fever, or gastric distress
Or make me vomit all over my dress
Raw milk is healthier for you they say
Or so the cuckoo raw milk nuts yell today
Until they're all killed off and dead of the flu
or they survive, and they just pass it on to you
"...On 17 April, the case developed fever, shortness of breath, diarrhoea, nausea and general malaise. On 24 April, the case sought medical attention, was hospitalized at the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases “Ismael Cosio Villegas” (INER per its acronym in Spanish) and died the same day due to complications of his condition...." #h5n2#birdflu
WHO confirms first fatal human case of bird flu A(H5N2)
"This was the first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with A(H5N2) subtype of bird flu reported globally and the first H5 virus infection in a person reported in Mexico."
"The victim had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals, WHO said."