Posted on 12/20/2024 10:06:50 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
With bird flu cases continuing to rise across the U.S., and a teenager now in critical condition in Canada after contracting the virus, alarm bells are sounding over how big the outbreak could become.
So far in 2024, 46 people have become infected with the highly pathogenic H5 strain of bird flu, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. Some 25 of those infections have been associated with dairy cattle, 20 with poultry and one case in Missouri arose from an unknown source.
As for the teen in Canada, who was described as "healthy prior to this" during a press conference on Tuesday, the source of infection is also unknown. They had no exposure to farms, where the virus is most prevalent.
A recent outbreak on a pig farm in Oregon—the first of its kind in the U.S.—sparked further concerns, as pigs are well known for transmitting diseases to humans.
According to the CDC, the risk to the general public remains low, and no cases of human-to-human transmission have been reported so far.
But with each human infection, the virus gains another opportunity to mutate and learn to spread among the population in the process. According to experts, if human-to-human transmission were to occur, the impacts would be uncertain—but potentially pandemic-causing.
"Before COVID, flu has has been the cause of most of the recent recorded pandemics that we know," Jeremy Rossman, a senior lecturer in virology at the University of Kent in the U.K., told Newsweek.
Rossman explained that the risks of flu pandemics are, therefore, very high, but that bird flu presents a big unknown. Because the population hasn't been exposed...
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Well Canada , Trudeau will try anything to stay in power
Sad. Trudeau and his soviet health system will ensure that he dies.
Didn’t last time. Even got nasty looks going the wrong way in grocery store aisles wearing a clip on face shield, no mask.
follow the swedish model
Who?
Gherigen Khergen from across the Fjord in Schveeden?
Unless you work with livestock it’s highly unlikely you’ll catch this.
It simply isn’t a big enough problem for anyone to make a ‘lockdown’ issue out of it.
People need to find something more viable to panic over.
In California maybe but President Trump is not shutting America down. These kind of stories are delusional and based on refusal to grasp the fact that every thing big small and in-between has changed forever.
I was an analytical chemist in the chemical industry for 20 years. Valid analytical methods require little things like calibration curves and calculation of limits of detection.
PCR “diagnostics” doesn’t bother with any of that nonsense.
“Positive” or “negative” is all you get.
No measuring the virus in terms of PPM or any of that garbage.
All you have to do to manufacture as many PCR false positives as you desire is crank it up to 40 or more amplification cycles.
Cha-ching!
Well, you continue to search for reasons to be afraid. Sensible people aren’t going to fall for it.
Nussilini has declared a state emergency. BOHICA moment.
Anybody notice these three things?
1. Bird Flu is starting to get more attention closer we get to Trump’s inauguration.
2. Fauci just crawled out from under whatever rock he has been hiding under for the past 6+ months.
3. Biden and “Willie’s used Mattress” are BOTH reported to suddenly be back in DC
My solution to Bird Flu, Eat More Chicken and HANG FAUCI!!!
I’d like to see them try.
Lockdowns are for the birds.
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