Because there's not enough going on: Arizona has found #H5N1 #birdflu in milk and it looks like yet another spillover from wild birds. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/a... - ThreadSky

helenbranswell.bsky.social • 88 days ago

Because there's not enough going on: Arizona has found #H5N1 #birdflu in milk and it looks like yet another spillover from wild birds.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/arizona-bird-flu-h5n1-dairy-cows-spillover/

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alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social•88 days ago

Pasteurization kills the Bird Flu virus in milk and CA issued a warning to not drink raw milk and issued recalls even from RFK Jr's favorite raw milk dairy.

drmaligator.medsky.social•88 days ago

Human case in Wyoming. When it rains, it pours.

https://health.wyo.gov/wyomings-first-human-bird-flu-case-confirmed/

taniaspencer.bsky.social•88 days ago

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/united-states/h5n1-tracking-af/wyoming/1007778-wyoming-avian-flu-in-humans-2025-26

blpwilson.bsky.social•87 days ago

Thank you for sharing. Mainstream media is not reporting this information

zuku142.bsky.social•88 days ago

It seems Wyoming just had its first human case? Please tell me I’m going crazy…

https://health.wyo.gov/wyomings-first-human-bird-flu-case-confirmed/

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•88 days ago

This isnt even News anymore

the CDC confirmed most all Farm Workers have been exposed, Vetrenarians test positive for H5 Antibodies..

birdflu has been going around cattle for millenia.. we just confirmed it and some ppl see that as reason to panic

helenbranswell.bsky.social•87 days ago

Not sure what you mean by most farmworkers have been exposed. Nationally, that's definitely not true & there's a difference between having been exposed & contracting the virus. Most farmworkers have not.
3 of 150 vets tested positive. Small number.
H5N1 was not seen to infect cows before 2024.

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•87 days ago

You just remember this conversation later okay..

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.23.619881v1.full

"Surprisingly, 12 of 60 individuals tested had levels of cross-neutralizing 👉antibodies against cow/Tx/24 H5N1👈 that were above the limit of detection; these individuals were born in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s"

aseret444.bsky.social•83 days ago

You missed that the study clearly even states in that same paragraph before your quote: "H5N1 influenza A viruses (IAV) have not circulated widely in the human population, and it is unlikely that significant immunity exists against these strains."

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yes. That is the assumption which i am challanging and led to their 'unexpected' finding

aseret444.bsky.social•83 days ago

This study was on cross-neutralizing antibodies, meaning that a conservation of immunodominant T cell epitopes between H5N1 and seasonal influenza viruses, including H1N1, was recently reported and suggested to potentially provide a level of cross-protective immunity.

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•83 days ago

Sure but what about the people born in the adjacent decade who clearly have H1 exposure

That paper IS one of the recent reports, the H5 finding wasnt expected

aseret444.bsky.social•83 days ago

They explained that it was already expected that older populations might have stronger immunity. Several studies have shown that. Their word choice is odd here but they clarified further: "which correlates well with H5 cross-reactive antibodies in older individuals."

mattypbs.bsky.social•88 days ago

To clarify, the milk that was tested was raw milk. Nearly all milk purchased in stores for consumption is pasteurized.

pinksalad.bsky.social•88 days ago

Thanks for staying on top of this for us!

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