Posted on 10/27/2021 4:09:37 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
China has reported 21 cases of the H5N6 subtype of bird flu this year, compared with only five last year, leaving experts concerned that the strain currently circulating is more infectious than past versions of the virus, Reuters reported.
Scientists first identified H5N6 avian influenza in poultry in Laos in 2013, according to a 2020 report in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID). And since 2014, a total of 49 confirmed cases of humans infected with H5N6 have been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the WHO's Avian Influenza Weekly Update.
The 21 cases reported in China this year have resulted in at least six deaths and left many of the remaining infected people critically ill. "The increase in human cases in China this year is of concern. It's a virus that causes high mortality," Thijs Kuiken, a professor of comparative pathology at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, told Reuters. According to the EID report, human H5N6 infections have a 67% mortality rate.
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If it bleeds it leads
“I put my faith in the Great healer.”
Good point!
Turkey load on the right?
Yup, for turkeys of all sorts...
Do we have literacola?
Don’t spit in the cop’s burger.
C’mon man, say car RamRod!…
“Avian Influenza”
Are the Avians upset, pissed, insulted and offended yet?
Larry Flynt up for that job.
I’m gonna pistol whip the next guy who says shenanigans.
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