Summary
The CDC identified rare mutations in the bird flu virus from the first severe U.S. human case, found in a Louisiana resident over 65 with severe respiratory illness.
The mutations, located in the hemagglutinin (HA) gene responsible for cell attachment, differ from those in local backyard flock samples and align with severe cases seen abroad.
The patient was infected with the D1.1 genotype, recently found in U.S. wild birds and poultry, not the B3.13 genotype seen in humans and livestock elsewhere.
The CDC states no person-to-person transmission occurred, and public risk remains low.
This thing is on the way, dammit. I’ve been seeing a lot of reports on its spread, where they say the udders of cows have receptors for both human and bird flus, and if both are present they can exchange genes and mutate a lot. Only a matter of time for human to human. And it’ll likely be a lot more deadly than COVID. 😢
Yeah, something like this is pretty much inevitable. We have large, dense populations of humans living in close proximity with animals. Stuff of going to jump the species gap, and yeah it’ll probably be much worse than COVID, which was not that severe in terms of death rates.
Ah good, I really could use another two years of working from home.
We should have culled all these cows, and kept culling them until nobody and nothing tested positive. And done it all a year ago. But apparently that was too hard, and now it’s really just luck whether this becomes the next global catastrophe.
not too hard, it’s just less profits now for the animal owners and more profits later for pharma and big tech.
We should have vaccinated our poultry flocks instead of letting it proliferate for decades. But we had to protect our export market.
Its in the wild populations so heavily now there is not stopping it with culls of any animal species.
It has been in wild birds world wide for years now. The birds having bird flu is not an American problem. The cows somehow all having bird flu is all yours though. Thankfully cows don’t fly and don’t migrate long distances.
Thankfully cows don’t fly and don’t migrate long distances.
Naturally, cows don’t migrate long distances. However humans on the other hand, will gladly help cows travel long distance.
Its all a problem. But you missed the important part.
We didnt vaccinate our domestic flocks because it would hurt our export market. We allowed high population sites to become reservoirs for the bird flu, instead. when the virus was detected, we torched the whole flock. But it always spread because we were not willing to remove a vital link in its spread through vaccine protocols. Now it is too big of a problem, and we get multiple spillover events.
There is a vaccine for birds, and we didnt use it. There is no vaccine for cattle.
Sure, all of that should have been done. I’m just commenting on
It’s in the wild populations so heavily now
It always was and it’s doing great damage to wild birds throughout the world. Regardless of US paultry farms. So you could have had healthier domestic birds, but there is nothing you could have done to avoid the virus being present in the environment.
We’ve had one Trump pandemic, but what about second Trump pandemic?
At least this one’s kicking off right as he’s about to start, instead of 2.5 years into his presidency.
Now we can only hope if it gets out of hand like last time, he’ll be just as stupid and catch it again. And not go to the ER.
Bird flu is a lot more deadly, a death sentence for someone his age and (lack of) fitness.
Don’t get my hopes up like that
And COVID fucked up many people’s respiratory/immune systems. I got asthma because of it.
COVID nearly got him before the shooters tried. I remember him looking pretty shit there when he was ‘totally fine’ in that hospital.
Yeah, he might also still have effects from it. His voice is a lot weaker and hoarse now and Covid can also quicken mental degredation, since it attacks nerves in the brain.
Soon RFK will be in charge of the CDC, then you won’t hear about any of these so-called reports.
Yes we Already had one bird flu but how about second bird flu?
The first was bat flu.
O I thought this a mutation of the current bird flu. D1 vs b3
Rare mutations sure must be pretty common if I’ve heard this phrase so often.
Rare becomes likely if you roll the dice often enough.
Exactly. Common Uncommon Rare Epic Legendary
Basically a coin flip sounds about right. I’ll call it coinflu
But they are still rare in terms of number of virus bodies generated daily by viral reproduction multiplied by number of infections.
If they weren’t rare, these infections would get deadly mutations in hours, not weeks or months.
Legendary mutations turn the virus orange.
Nothing to see here. Back to work, everyone! Just eat some horse tranqs and wash it down with some bleach and you’ll be strong as an ox.
- Americans, probably
