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
An increase in flu viruses detected at wastewater treatment plants in California in recent weeks has sparked concern that the #H5N1 bird flu may be spreading more rapidly than anticipated, potentially putting the state’s 1.7 million dairy cows at risk for infection.
Definition of utter insanity - Ontario will be cancelling funding of wastewater surveillance for ALL diseases - this as Covid is once again on the rise and H5N1 is lurking as a potential new pandemic
@B_Whitewind Yeah, I think really the question on legalization is if you let people market/sell it in stores (where the unsuspecting/clueless might buy it, thinking it's "healthier", and it kills a bunch of kids). But, I get it -- I mean, don't stop the stupid if they really want to try to get themselves sick.
USDA just updated its page with THIRTEEN new herds infected since their last update.
The new herd infections are in South Dakota, Michigan and Idaho, with Idaho logging the most at 8 new herds infected.
Several of the infections were confirmed by a NVSL on the 28th, which is last Tuesday, so the USDA is continuing its pattern of untimely updates while saying "Data updated weekday by 4 pm ET."
That makes 80 herds with confirmed infections in 9 states.
@korenchkin@Kadsenchaos
Vielleicht gibts für ein paar Wochen Maßnahmen, bis man wieder kein Bock mehr hat und ne Durchseuchungsstrategie fährt, ist ja auch gut fürs Immunsystem uswusfdiepaartotewärendochehbaldgestorben
@darnell@DrPen I’m in NZ. Less so an experience of abuse when out and about, as much as just being frozen out/ignored, and ultimately left behind by some folk when I got long COVID.
My friends/family back in the UK definitely don’t understand why I’m not giving the virus a free ride though
@darnell@DrPen but really it’s less about active abuse from randoms, and more about that general level of it being normal for people not to bother mitigating it any more.
If you understand the science of it all, and still don’t mask etc, then that behaviour adds up the same as anti-maskers approach to it all really
Another dairy worker, this one in Michigan, has tested positive for H5N1 after showing signs of illness. Like the two others, this person had eye symptoms. Unlike the others, this person had a productive cough. If it is infecting human respiratory tissues, that isn't good, as coughing makes someone far more likely to spread the disease onward.