⚠️ BREAKING: Novel Henipavirus Detected in Alabama, First Case in North America. Closely related to deadly human-infecting henipaviruses like Nipah and Hendra. This discovery marks the first presence of such viruses in North America. - ThreadSky

covid19disease.bsky.social • 34 days ago

⚠️ BREAKING:

Novel Henipavirus Detected in Alabama, First Case in North America.

Closely related to deadly human-infecting henipaviruses like Nipah and Hendra.

This discovery marks the first presence of such viruses in North America.

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katedoesnthate.bsky.social•34 days ago

Great- and trump 😟

hfyou.bsky.social•34 days ago

From a quick lit review, these don't have human to human transmission. So, yeah, bad, but not pandemic-worrying.

urbanvole.bsky.social•33 days ago

Yet. The key word you’re missing is yet.

lakeclouds.bsky.social•34 days ago

Omg another virus to be freaked out by! What are henipaviruses??
Especially knowing who will be in charge of our country
are we safe?

mechanicalbear.bsky.social•34 days ago

Shout out to my home town Brisbane where the horse-racing suburb of Hendra was the origin of the Hendra Virus.

shitsuesays.bsky.social•33 days ago

We don’t need Alabama anyway.

yesicanidiot911.bsky.social•34 days ago

never heard of it.

maynardflash.bsky.social•34 days ago

Marvelous… This is just gonna be a repeat of 2016 on fucking steroids isn’t it?

dumpcreek.bsky.social•34 days ago

Airborne or bloodborne??

pabloluther.bsky.social•34 days ago

reynademocrat.bsky.social•34 days ago

fnick1293.bsky.social•34 days ago

Times like this I turn to my holistic knowledge and make teas. Too many airborne illnesses around this time of year.

wthusa.bsky.social•34 days ago

A trip to Costco is needed

nyshakey.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yeah, I gotta get as much TP as I can.

amandamine.bsky.social•34 days ago

Well, great.

islamoradadawn.bsky.social•34 days ago

2023 found in a short tail shrew.

mariaaragon64.bsky.social•34 days ago

Meanwhile, Hantavirus is lurking out here.

farashimbo.bsky.social•33 days ago

Deja vu all over again?

iheartdannon.bsky.social•33 days ago

Good old Nipah or MEV-1 from Contagion

weswie-114.bsky.social•34 days ago

Get ready America for Trump to drop the ball on another virus.

theresistanceco.bsky.social•34 days ago

Good. Hope it spreads like wildfire. Fuck this country

xavitp.bsky.social•33 days ago

No worries! Mel Gibson and his hypochlorite are on their way.
#goldenera

grimmrad.bsky.social•33 days ago

Oh, FFS

gac60.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yikes
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2024/infections-diseases/henipavirus-infections

kyuldav.bsky.social•34 days ago

Don't worry. RFK jr will handle this just like he did that bear.

turned01.bsky.social•34 days ago

Oh wait he chainsaw decapitated that whale. My bad.

cthulhu-grim34.bsky.social•34 days ago

And the worm that ate parts of his brain

the-dudemeister.bsky.social•34 days ago

Just in time to kill us all... awesome!

the-dudemeister.bsky.social•34 days ago

Was his name Junebug, by any chance?

Because, that's just Junebug.

sandrauuh.bsky.social•34 days ago

Exactly what Trump needs to call a state of emergency & close the southern boarder (which he is doing tomorrow) I wont doubt there will be an outbreak in an ice facility. Therefore, accusing immigrants of the outbreak his admin. Orchestrated. 😒

dand09.bsky.social•34 days ago

I wouldn't have expected it in any other state...

gaelicsongbird.com•34 days ago

Covid, bird flu, norovirus, and now this?! I want off this ride!

appalachian-sage.bsky.social•34 days ago

Don’t forget mpox is still out there too 🫣

gaelicsongbird.com•34 days ago

cthulhu-grim34.bsky.social•34 days ago

R.e.m any one?

bethlet.bsky.social•34 days ago

I feel fine…

fjordfnord.bsky.social•34 days ago

This virus does not even infect humans. It was trace harvested from the pulverized inner organs of shrews.

aspieinblack.bsky.social•34 days ago

Come on Yellowstone Murder Volcano.

here4it17.bsky.social•33 days ago

Omg! I just ordered a case of n95’s!

lexie1179.bsky.social•34 days ago

Well this ought to be interesting. Pino fotus coming in the same way he went out. This time we have the brainworm guy instead of a highly qualified scientist. You can’t make this shit up. Oh I forgot about ‘The Andromeda Strain’ by Michael Crichton. Guess you can make it up.

succulont.bsky.social•34 days ago

important public health news, but let's not jump to conclusions. this virus is not the same as nipah and hendra. more research is needed to understand the risks and potential impacts on human health.

flatsix723.bsky.social•33 days ago

This account can probably be put on hold for the next 4 years…..President bleach is back, he’s got it covered 💪

ottersby.bsky.social•34 days ago

Perfect, just in time for the new administration to ignore it.

covid19disease.bsky.social•34 days ago

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31/2/24-1155_article

marziegk.bsky.social•34 days ago

Specimen collected in 2021?! 🤔

wildmurr.bsky.social•34 days ago

Excellent point.

sunnybunnny.bsky.social•34 days ago

Oh goody.

eddieholmes.bsky.social•34 days ago

It’s interesting from the biographical perspective, but: henipaviruses are quite commonplace, it’s in a shrew, not a human (so “case” is a bit misleading, and it’s not that close to the human henipaviruses.

lv2bu.bsky.social•34 days ago

Great

sam-mcclennen.bsky.social•34 days ago

The linked article is about a novel Henipavirus found in a shrew. The specimen was collected in 2021.

I can't find any evidence on the CDC's website that this specific Henipavirus has actually ever infected humans.

There is a low level concern that it might spillover into humans.

maggiecnighs.bsky.social•33 days ago

Thank you because there wasn’t already enough to be worried about today…

immunologyphd.bsky.social•33 days ago

Stop fear mongering. It was found in a shrew, not a human. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31/2/24-1155_article

chipchumsworth.bsky.social•34 days ago

Thank goodness it hit Alabama first where hopefully it'll do a lot of damage to the Maga base.

ragingmoderate46.bsky.social•34 days ago

Maybe it only affects people in dumb-ass red states.

femcel04.bsky.social•34 days ago

Great let’s do some more natural selection and hopefully all the selected are the ones that are causing these problems in the first place ☺️

gfordc.bsky.social•34 days ago

57% case-fatality ratio.

thefarmerchoy.bsky.social•33 days ago

Can't wait for us to blame this on another country.

hilly-keys.bsky.social•34 days ago

2025 is starting well

truthisoutthere24.bsky.social•33 days ago

Please let all the anti vaxxers get it 😏🤞🤞

lindasm2025.bsky.social•34 days ago

Please tell
More about this.

author-unknown.bsky.social•34 days ago

Perfect place for it! Let it do its natural job amongst the anti vaxxers.

coloradobookie.bsky.social•34 days ago

No place for hate please. I live in a very red state and cannot move due to illness and my mom.

marziegk.bsky.social•34 days ago

🫂 Sympathies for your situation.

z3rokool.bsky.social•33 days ago

Mask up to survive. You guys will be fine. It's the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers that will be naturally selected to no longer pollute the gene pool.

author-unknown.bsky.social•33 days ago

May that happen as soon as possible

author-unknown.bsky.social•34 days ago

Did you vaccinate yourself? Yes? Then live your best life. No? Be mulch so that others may live smartly. Ignorance of science and history is absolutely no excuse.

mostlymicrobes.bsky.social•34 days ago

Check your hateful bias. Yes vaccination is essential. why are you assuming that AL is antivax? Is this because it's a red state? People are more conservative? Any consideration of health care inequity? Poverty? 2024 rates for K at 96% https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7341a3.htm

moosey.swifties.social•34 days ago

My brother and SIL live there and are heavy antivax like their neighbors.

mostlymicrobes.bsky.social•34 days ago

I'm from there and have met more anti-vax here in MD and from CA. Guess I'm just sensitive to these broad brushes we use to "other" people.

coloradobookie.bsky.social•34 days ago

So sad the anti-vaxers live in small world of hate and ignorance. I feel sorry for them most days. I vote and speak blue 💙

tglb.bsky.social•34 days ago

A first human case or animal case? How was it detected and by whom?

sam-mcclennen.bsky.social•34 days ago

The case in the linked study was in a shrew.

Shrews and humans don't interact a lot so the risk is low. It's still a thing the CDC should probably keep an eye on but it's not infecting humans currently.

tglb.bsky.social•32 days ago

Thanks.
Or APHIS at USDA? FWS?

uproote.art•34 days ago

According to the article linked, it's a Northern Short-Tailed Shrew.

hillyh.bsky.social•34 days ago

A red state no less. Maybe the locusts will follow…

birdmaaan.bsky.social•34 days ago

I mean… trump is president again… so there’s that…

The year started with a fire too. It’s 2020 all over again.

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