ai6yr, 5 days ago to H5N1

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."

#h5n1 #birdflu #hpai

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.

ai6yr, 5 days ago to H5N1

Nature: Huge amounts of bird-flu virus found in raw milk of infected cows

New findings point to the milking process as a possible route of avian-influenza spread between cows — and from cow to human.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01624-1

#h5n1 #hpai #birdflu #cows #milk

Wen, 6 days ago to H5N1

Why America’s bird flu outbreak is a warning to the world

http://archive.today/2024.06.06-054943/https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/bird-flu-symptoms-humans-news-h5n1-flnpk8t5x (archived)

Ionia County has become the ground-zero of an outbreak of the bird flu virus H5N1, long seen as a pathogen with the potential to cause a pandemic

There are already indications that the virus may be slowly getting better at infecting humans.

A combination of apathy mixed with complacency and large commercial farming at least cost is driving this.

#Warnings #Pandemics #H5N1 #Environment #Agriculture

br00t4c, 6 days ago to H5N1

H5N1 Bird Flu Isn't a Human Pandemic--Yet

#americans #h5n1

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/h5n1-bird-flu-isnt-a-human-pandemic-yet/