Avian Flu Jumps to Mammals (Update: continued evolution to human illness) (1 Viewer)

[Eeyore]

A Missouri, human infection without exposure to a known carrier.

CDC Report on Missouri H5N1 Serology Testing

CDC provides update on H5 serology testing from MO patient and contacts

www.cdc.gov

 

[bclemms]

A Missouri, human infection without exposure to a known carrier.

CDC Report on Missouri H5N1 Serology Testing

CDC provides update on H5 serology testing from MO patient and contacts

www.cdc.gov

The good news, the extremely high mortality rate seems to be proving less true over time.

 

[Eeyore]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/human-bird-flu-cases-california-may-be-undercounted-workers-resist-testing-2024-10-24/

 

[Sailorsaint]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/human-bird-flu-cases-california-may-be-undercounted-workers-resist-testing-2024-10-24/

If you don’t test for it, you’re not positive….yeh, we haven’t learned a thing.

 

[DaveXA]

If you don’t test for it, you’re not positive….yeh, we haven’t learned a thing.

What else is new? Lol. If they didn't learn anything from Covid, .

 

[Eeyore]

https://www.theolympian.com/news/state/washington/article294480529.html

Eight! Eight preliminary positive test results!

 

[Sun Wukong]

https://www.theolympian.com/news/state/washington/article294480529.html

Eight! Eight preliminary positive test results!

At this point it's clear this thing is significantly more widespread than originally believed. Thankfully nobody seems to be dying from it or even getting very sick. It doesn't seem to ve as brutal on us as that other strain from Asia years back even if it is killing animals.

 

[Eeyore]

Avian influenza case confirmed in Clackamas County egg farm

Agriculture officials say the eggs from the affected birds did not enter the food supply. The same bird flu strain, the H5N1 virus, has affected over 100 million poultry birds across the U.S. since 2022.

www.opb.org

 

[Eeyore]

Bird Flu

www.cdph.ca.gov

16 confirmed cases in California

 

[SaintInBucLand]

Bird Flu

www.cdph.ca.gov

16 confirmed cases in California

None of which needed hospitalization which is good.

 

[Eeyore]

Current theory about why Again flu hasn't been as deadly as feared

Pre-existing H1N1 immunity reduces severe disease with bovine H5N1 influenza virus

The emergence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in dairy cattle herds across the United States has caused multiple mild human infections. There is an urgent need to understand the risk of spillover into humans. Here, we show that pre-existing immunity from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic...

www.biorxiv.org

 

[superchuck500]

New human cases of H5N1 showing concern to virologists.

 

[superchuck500]

H5N1 bird flu infects five more humans in California, and one in Oregon

Health officials have announced six more H5N1 bird flu infections in humans: five in California and the first known case in Oregon.

www.latimes.com

 

[Zztop]

Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans

Scientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks

www.theguardian.com

 

[Complex Kid]