The H5N1 sequence found in the hospitalized teenager shows two important mutations that improve the virus's ability to bind to human α2,6 sialic acid receptors.
This adaptation is crucial for the virus's potential to spread between humans.
The virus is evolving.
#H5N1
This adaptation is crucial for the virus's potential to spread between humans.
The virus is evolving.
#H5N1
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Let's hope this is a one off freak incident.
The fact that it CAN evolve in a way that successfully makes us a vector, was all but inevitable.
Is this the leading edge of that thought?
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https://www.google.com/search?q=pubMed%2C+NAC%2C+COVID-19
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/nac-benefits
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Hurry it up.
It's off our shores, will be gone soon."
Note then eastern seaboard fish n bird kills due to hydrological cycle and it's localized initial spread then later in Aug nco patient zeros attended Wuhan Chinese Olympics. Rest is big mouth history
Mother Earth is equalizing the FO side of the FAFO equation.
https://bsky.app/profile/commentsandopi2.bsky.social/post/3lat5br7aoc2e
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She says that essentially viruses either become more deadly or become easier to catch but not both. That's my understanding based on what she shared.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/debunking-idea-viruses-evolve-virulent/story?id=82052581
That isn't to say it's pointless to keep an eye out. But this isn't a tipping point.
Switching from a2,3 to a2,6 receptors seems to have a tendency to cause pandemics...
This: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/canadas-national-lab-confirms-h5n1-hospitalized-teen maybe?
Maybe some politicians need to know when to mutate for the benefit of our country.
If it hadn’t had learned how to transmit to humans already, it will have now.
https://bsky.app/profile/kashprime.bsky.social/post/3lar4b2heas22
My mom is in hospice. I just want to make sure I'm not going to bring anything in to her. I don't want to help her along, I just want to sit and laugh with her.
Poor kid.
His health secretary pick will have Americans gargling bleach.
I believe the current mortality rate is about 50%, versus around 1% for covid.
So.
What will matter is net R0 and with 7B human, virus does not care killing host, there's still plenty of carriers available
But hey the US have RFK and HCQ so what could go wrong ?