Posted on 02/14/2025 10:49:47 AM PST by EBH
A man from Mercer County, Ohio, is that state’s first human case of H5N1 avian flu, according to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). The man is a farm worker who was in contact with deceased commercial poultry.
People should avoid direct contact with poultry or wild birds and take proper precautions. “While the risk to Ohioans is low, the best way to prevent bird flu is to avoid unprotected exposures to sick or dead birds or to their environment,” said ODH Director Bruce Vanderhoff, MD, MBA, in a press release. “People should avoid direct contact with poultry or wild birds and take proper precautions, including reaching out for guidance regarding personal protection and safe handling, if you must be around sick or dead birds.”
Ohio is bird flu hot spot No information was provided on the condition of the man, but most human cases of H5N1 have been mild. So far, the United States has recorded 68 human cases of avian flu since 2024, with one death in a man from Louisiana.
Ohio is one of the epicenters of the US bird flu outbreak, with 54 outbreaks since the middle of January. The outbreaks have led to the loss of more than 10 million birds.
Damn viruses, tough to control, it’s not an election year.
will they send him into a nursing home with the elderly?
Dearest FDA, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, Local healthe directors, et all:
GFY...
Those poor chicken farmers are having a tough time with this Bird Flu. Regardless of exactly how the Flu got into circulation, it’s in the mix now.
I have a rather grim, even morbid question for those with livestock farming knowledge.
#1..What does one do when you have a million chickens who catch the virus and suddenly become very sick?
#2..Are the birds placed under a huge tarp and then gassed?
#3..What happens with the Flu contaminated carcasses?
They can’t really be sold. Burying would take time, effort and valuable land out of use. Seems that the easiest solution would be to have a large incinerator on premises.
That is a business risk of any Chicken Ranch, but having to kill that many of anything all at once, is likely to be traumatic for some people. Perhaps. I wouldn’t really know.
Maybe such a Farmer accepts the event as necessary, and simply moves on.
Is this a death warrant for all of Ohio’s chickens?
What will the Haitians eat, now?
Now where have we seen this before?! The Covid 19 scamdemic!
What will the Haitians eat, now?
You mean “Who will the Haitians eat, now?”
I certainly hope not!
Bill Gate$’ Fault!
That would be USDAH5N1
If the state wants my birds they will have to buy them.
We all know the solution.. impeach trump, suspend the first and second amendments, raise taxes, cut defense spending, go to 100% mail-in ballots, suspend all fuel production, mandate untested vaccines, seize the internet and jail anyone who complains.
It’s just more propaganda to try and do same crap again. It’s not necessary to kill all chickens (in fact I read somewhere that could make it worse) they’re intentionally culling food supply to raise prices and panic. Farms all over where I live- everyone is perfectly fine including the chickens.
OMG! Now they will have to kill all the humans to stop the spread in the next 2 weeks.
Yes, the best thing now is to immediately cull the people in Mercer County.
Such a shame.
They’re gearing up to try to jab all our livestock.
But chickens offer this cautionary tale on that:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous
Well, well, well...
https://odh.ohio.gov/media-center/odh-news-releases/ohio-reports-first-human-case-of-bird-flu-021225
“...COLUMBUS, Ohio)— The Ohio Department of Health is reporting the state’s first probable human case of influenza A(H5), also known as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), or bird flu...”
Probable.
Okaaaaay.
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