Avian Flu Jumps to Mammals (Update: continued evolution to human illness) (3 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

 

[superchuck500]

 

[efil4stnias]

Welp that settles that- my turkey is getting "Clark Griswold cooked" this Thanksgiving.

 

[faceman]

Welp that settles that- my turkey is getting "Clark Griswold cooked" this Thanksgiving.

Humans cannot get avian influenza from commercial milk or properly cooked poultry and eggs

Safe handling and cooking practices can help eliminate the risk of avian influenza.

www.canr.msu.edu

A probe thermometer is a cooks best friend. It takes the guesswork away. State health depts. require
a calibrated thermometer to be available at all times. When I managed a Pizza hut that was the first
question the inspector asked. Where is your calibrated thermometer?

 

[efil4stnias]

Humans cannot get avian influenza from commercial milk or properly cooked poultry and eggs

Safe handling and cooking practices can help eliminate the risk of avian influenza.

www.canr.msu.edu

A probe thermometer is a cooks best friend. It takes the guesswork away. State health depts. require
a calibrated thermometer to be available at all times. When I managed a Pizza hut that was the first
question the inspector asked. Where is your calibrated thermometer?

I was joking.

( but to put your mind at ease, my oven has a probe thermometer )

 

[faceman]

I was joking.

( but to put your mind at ease, my oven has a probe thermometer )

I know you were. My Thanksgiving turkeys have been fried for as long as I can remember.
The first time I tried one I said to myself this is the only way i'll eat turkey again.

 

[Eeyore]

I know you were. My Thanksgiving turkeys have been fried for as long as I can remember.
The first time I tried one I said to myself this is the only way i'll eat turkey again.

I did too until I saw how much oil is now. I really want a fried turkey though.

 

[faceman]

I did too until I saw how much oil is now. I really want a fried turkey though.

If you don't plan on frying a lot of turkey just have someone do it for you. It's a lot cheaper that way.
You're right. Peanut oil is the best and it isn't cheap.

 

[Eeyore]

Study of H5N1 from an infected person

An H5N1 flu virus isolated from an infected farm worker could transmit through airborne droplets and was lethal in mice and ferrets.

www.nih.gov

The way that I'm reading this seems to be that critters that are infected by a human spread virus are more likely to die than those infected by a cow

 

[Eeyore]

Bird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Binding More Efficiently to Human Cells

A new study finds tweaking part of the H5N1 virus infecting dairy cows in a single spot could allow it to better attach to human cell receptors, raising concerns it could transmit more easily between people

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[Eeyore]

 

[staphory]

Bird Flu is just as much a hoax as covid.
It’s just the flu.

 

[SWJJ]

Bird Flu is just as much a hoax as covid.
It’s just the flu.

GTFO with COVID was a hoax.


You can argue with whether or not the government overreacted, but it absolutely wasn't a HOAX.


It's called bird flu, because its specific to birds, at least for now. We have had other bird flus (also called Avian Flu) that mutate and then spread to other animals who have not seen this particular strain of flu before, thus making it a novel flu meaning there is no herd immunity. That means it could possibly spread more rapidly and have potential to be more virulent.


Don't spread this type of ignorance.

 

[SWJJ]

I can't break down 2 semesters of virology I took in college in a single internet post, but let me help readers get a basic understanding of "the flu."

The flu is NOT a single disease. It is a whole genus of Viruses in the realm Riboviria and are in the family Orthomyxoviridea which is a family of RNA virus that use RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Inside the genus Alphainfluenzavirus there are different species of influenza, common referred to as Flu A, B, C, and D. For humans, we are primarily concerned with Flu A and Flu B, again these are different Species of flu. Flu B has a couple of different lineages, but does not have any different Serotypes (subspecies)

Flu A mutates significantly more frequently than Flu B and is the one we are concerned about jumping species and causing pandemics and epidemics. Flu A's different Serotypes have nomenclature that identifies specific proteins found on the virus' surface which is how they are categorized. These two groups of proteins are Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase. For Hemagglutinin there are 18 different subtypes, and Neuraminidase has 11. The nomenclature identifies which proteins are present. Currently we are worried about H5N1, which primarily affects the bird population so it's called a "bird flu." You may remember the swine flu a few years ago that was a H1N1 virus. So since there is H(1-18) and N(1-11) "the flu" is actually 198 different disease causing viruses. That's just Flu A. We have only seen about 120 or so of these combinations in nature so far.

"Bird Flu" refers to a group of Flu A subtypes that we usually only see in birds, but as they mutate that can "jump" across species.

"Bird Flu" is absolutely NOT a HOAX.

 

[DaveXA]

Bird Flu is just as much a hoax as covid.
It’s just the flu.

This is a terribly ignorant post. You're smarter than that...I hope.

I personally know several people who succumbed to Covid. I didn't imagine all that.

And what SWJJ said.