New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’

You never claimed he handled them well!

Yes he didn’t do a good job last time so I’m sure this time he learned his lesson as is ready to take action

There is still a CDC?

your grandma lived a long life

Hmm.

So hypothetically, is a human avian flu pandemic expected to be like COVID-19, where mostly the elderly get killed?

Or is it like the Spanish flu, which is believed to have killed by inducing cytokine storms, where the disease triggers the immune system to go into very high levels of activity that ultimately cause the human to kill itself? Because there, it was mostly the young and "healthy", who had a strong immune response, that were killed.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1

Review of patient ages and outcomes reveals that H5N1 attacks are especially lethal in pre-adults and young adults, while older victims tend to have milder attacks and to survive.[37][38][39] This is consistent with the frequent development of a cytokine storm in the affected.[40] Few persons over 50 years of age seem to have become infected by H5N1, and very few have died following an H5N1 attack.[41] Instead, the age-fatality curve of H5N1 influenza attacks in humans resembles that of the 1918 Spanish pandemic flu, and is the opposite of the mortality curve of seasonal flu strains, since seasonal influenza preferentially kills the elderly and does not kill by cytokine storm.

Welp. I guess that pretty explicitly answers that.

Grandma may be the one burying people, not the one getting buried.

I hope you can figure out what's weird about it and share. It seems like a normal Lemmy thread to me:

• Concerns and questions about public health
• Acknowledgement of the political challenges we face
• People getting caught up on the small details in other comments
• Sarcasm as a coping mechanism
• People apologizing when they've made an error

Don't take the list above as any kind of condemnation; I do all of them all the time, too.

... lemmy has misinformation, just like everywhere else. Especially saw it in the lead up to the US Elections

It's weird but you can't say what is weird or why.

You what's actually weird? Your comment goes on for three paragraphs and says absolutely nothing but somehow has 50 upvotes. That's very weird

What are some of the best practices and precautions you yourself are taking or can take in this kind of situation? Must be rough though, I'm sorry.

Howdy, Podunk. Rednecks have to watch out on Lemmy.

There is some manipulation happening, my bullshit sensor has pinged more than once. There are also some folks that might be aliens or tankies or some sort of venomous communist/vegan you definitely wouldn't want to share a free love commune with.

How likely is it that blue rare steak would transmit H5N1, do you reckon? USDA study.

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The virus developed in SE Asia, and had been rampaging through the animal kingdom especially including wild birds for years before it arrived on any farm Biden had jurisdiction over.

How is the current permanent reservoir in the wild anything to do with US policy? I actually completely agree with you that the Biden administration fucked up massively by not treating it as an urgent problem to any degree once it arrived here, enabling it to get a real solid foothold in US farms, but I think you picked a super weird way of framing that valid criticism within facts that don’t exist. When do you think it got established in wild animals and when do you think it arrived on US farms?

(I think the USDA actually bought tons of avian flu vaccine back at the end of Obama’s term, and then no one ever used it because of the export concern and it expired, and that formed a lot of not wanting to do it again. Also, there is disagreement about how good an idea giving the vaccine is, which is the whole reason it causes export issues. But if you are saying that is stupid logic, in the current pandemic environment, I will agree with you.)