I have read that a major cause of the spreado of bird flu is shore bird migration. Is there any info tying migration..shore bird or other..to increased bird flu where they migrate? I am thinking of tracking somewhat along the line of super spreader events &Covid. You can see a parallel pattern
bird poo is outsized vector 4 many pathogens, going places & eating things full of them; dispersing their waste in the air, often, so things get pretty substantially spread by these creatures; we're barely able 2 track pathogens in our own population, w/birds a needle in a haystack the better option
I bet we could track it by requiring testing in EDs if symptomatic and map it out geographically. If migrating birds are the carriers we would see the same pattern on the maps if we mapped out dead bird reports and testing geographically too. Relationship, not causal tho. We COULD do it. We won't.
Yup...and it won't take much of a mutation to make it human to human..airborne. Just like Covid but with higher fatality. And likely..as with so many other viruses...there will be latent and long term illness, disability and premature death.
I just read a report from the NIH from 2005, that documented human-to-human transmission in Thailand. It was spread directly from one person to two others, but remained in its original, non-mutated state and did not spread further. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC546057/
Bald eagles in multiple states and, in Florida, black vultures and pelicans. Waterfowl have a higher incidence (maybe because they congregate). It is recommended that bird feeders be taken down or cleaned frequently. Feces can carry the illness. Ill birds may be unable to fly or unsteady standing.
This is devastating. In all of the talk about the pandemic potential of bird flu we sometimes lose the fact that whole species of birds are being decimated by this disease.
Someone on Reddit assured me that there's a very slender chance bird flu explodes into the next COVID-19. I hope to God they're right because who wants to see the COVID response repeated with an even deadlier virus?
The bad news is that humans who work closely with birds or animals can catch it. The good news, so far, is that we haven't yet seen any evidence of human-to-human transmission. So it would probably need some further mutation/evolution to become capable of that: possible but not inevitable.
And if the incompetent government doesn't help HN51 spread, the freshly emboldened anti-lockdowners will. I think back to those idiot Florida teens who held spring break beach parties right after lockdown was announced.
well, it not being a problem to humans probably means that the country it originated from (the US) isn't gonna do anything proper about it, and we basically have a pandemic solely killing birds.
Oh my god. I hope the poor eagle went peacefully. We have them very near our house. We see them all the time.
The rest of us are so fucked. Trump isn’t going to lift a finger to help or prevent this time. We’ll be lucky to get a vaccine that doesn’t include MAGA rioting along with its distribution.
Maybe it should be reported? It's so cute, even dead. 💔 Worrisome is that dogs and children playing in grass where there are dead birds can bring that virus into homes on the soles of their shoes, paws.
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The poetry of it hurts.
If you get confused, listen to the music play.
so... say goodbye to birds in 2028 and beyond
Not that anyone's gonna care until we have to consume less beef, of course.
Meanwhile, walked up on this owl yesterday. Right by the Zoo. They have a bunch of magnificent birds.
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It was the US's responsibility to handle and end it's own bird flu.
Now we may have birds all over the world dying because of sheer incompetence. Actually, there's a lot of competence, that's just malicious compliance.
What a shitty country, fucks us all all day.
The rest of us are so fucked. Trump isn’t going to lift a finger to help or prevent this time. We’ll be lucky to get a vaccine that doesn’t include MAGA rioting along with its distribution.