Scientists sound the alarm over unexpected way bird flu virus could evolve: 'A much bigger, evolving story' - ThreadSky

hmpxvt.bsky.social • 41 days ago

Scientists sound the alarm over unexpected way bird flu virus could evolve:

'A much bigger, evolving story'

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hmpxvt.bsky.social•41 days ago

Cats could be an unexpected new vector in the spread of bird flu to humans, according to a new study.

hmpxvt.bsky.social•41 days ago

The New York Times reported on the research, explaining that while there is no evidence that cats have spread H5N1 to people...

hmpxvt.bsky.social•41 days ago

...it is theoretically possible — if a cat were infected with H5N1 and the seasonal flu simultaneously, the H5N1 could make the mutations necessary to spread among people.

hmpxvt.bsky.social•41 days ago

Dr. Suresh Kuchipudi, a veterinary microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh and an author of the paper, told The Times the new study highlights the need for public health officials to ramp up bird flu surveillance in cats.

hmpxvt.bsky.social•41 days ago

The publication reported that testing for people and cows following a dairy outbreak of bird flu in the U.S. has been limited. Meanwhile, officials have not expanded monitoring to other farm animals or household pets.

hmpxvt.bsky.social•41 days ago

"In the process of addressing the immediate problem — which is dairy farms and the milk as a food safety problem, and then human surveillance — we might be missing a much bigger, evolving story," Dr. Kuchipudi told The Times.

"It may already have been happening in plain sight."

susanbeeha.bsky.social•41 days ago

Keep your cats indoors!

digitalramble.bsky.social•41 days ago

and don’t feed them a raw diet!

pete-etep.bsky.social•41 days ago

Miow. Lies. Miaow. Brrr. All lie. M'rrrow?

liberalazbirder.bsky.social•41 days ago

Drip Drip Drip
For millions of animals and some humans - Dropped

pragmatic-vegan.bsky.social•41 days ago

Hers the lead “scientist” looking for the cause of Bird Flu. Time for them to admit the non vegan food system caused COVID & now Bird Flu.

nbbc13.bsky.social•41 days ago

You are a moron

damnedatheist.bsky.social•41 days ago

I think you’re on the wrong platform. If you don’t like facts, Elon Musk’s misinformation station is on a platform he renamed to X…you’ll find more like-minded individuals there.

nbbc13.bsky.social•41 days ago

lol. I have years of experience working on influenza and other anti-infectives. Please don’t preach to me that you thin in you know facts.

notdeep.bsky.social•41 days ago

Drumpf will do nothing. Another pandemic is coming.

pawding.bsky.social•41 days ago

Good thing US has a top kitchen government in place the next four years to stay on top of this!

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