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#birdflu

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Julie Webgirl - Just Your Luck

"Bird Flu on Dairy Farms May Be Airborne After All"

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"...both large and small aerosol particles in the air..."

“There is a lot of H5N1 virus on these farms"

“It is everywhere"

"We need to be expanding biosafety measures, biosecurity measures and trying to control where the virus is.”

scientificamerican.com/article

Cows feeding in pens at a dairy farm with birds on ground
Scientific American · Bird Flu Could Be Spreading through the Air on Dairy Farms, Preliminary Study ShowsBy Stephanie Pappas
#H5N1#BirdFlu#Airborne
Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

“There is a lot of H5N1 virus on these farms,” says Seema Lakdawala, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Emory University School of Medicine and senior author of the new study, which has yet to go through scientific peer review. “It is everywhere. We need to be expanding biosafety measures, biosecurity measures and trying to control where the virus is.”

The finding—that the virus is “everywhere”—fits with what has been seen in previously published work, says Richard Webby, who studies host-microbe interactions at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “It’s a ridiculously contaminated environment,” Webby says.

So far no human-adapted mutation has taken off, but "with so much virus on affected farms, there’s a chance that future human-oriented mutations could arise"

We don't need another pandemic while malicious, anti-science lunatics are in charge of U.S. public health. #H5N1 #HPAI #BirdFlu #dairy
scientificamerican.com/article

Cows feeding in pens at a dairy farm with birds on ground
Scientific American · Bird Flu Could Be Spreading through the Air on Dairy Farms, Preliminary Study ShowsBy Stephanie Pappas
Helen Branswell

#USDA reports another #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herd in California, the 771st such detection in the state.
The cumulative national total of detected/confirmed herds is 1,078 in 17 states. The true number of infected herds? Who knows?
aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poult

Animal and Plant Health Inspection ServiceHPAI Confirmed Cases in Livestock | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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sport of sacred spherical cows

Important to discussions of why #BirdFlu has apparently been less fatal in the United States.

bird.makeup/users/e_a_karlsson

This suggests that it isn't prior immunity (as conjectured elsewhere) that made Usians, for whom bird flu infection has been confirmed, less likely to die.

The fatality rate is still 50% in Cambodia in 2025. No discernible reason why Usians would have prior immunity that Cambodians do not.

So other factors, including such factors of which patients get tested for bird flu and when (statistics are structural), in different countries may have something to do with the difference in mortality rates.

bird.makeupbird.makeup - TweetCambodia has confirmed its 14th human case of avian influenza A/H5N1 in 2025 : a 26-year-old man from Siem Reap. So far in 2025: 14 cases, 7 deaths — a case fatality rate (CFR) of 50% Since 2005: 86 cases, 50 deaths (CFR: 58.1%) #H5N1 #AvianInfluenza
#H5N1#AvianInfluenza
TrueInfections

During this COCA Call, presenters will give updates on the current situation with human cases of influenza A(H5) and CDC's surveillance and monitoring efforts for influenza A virus infections among people in the United States.

youtu.be/ARK26DwAQuY?si=D-22zb
#H5N1 #AvianInfluenza #Influenza #HPAI #BirdFlu

YouTubeCOCA Call Clinician Update on Human Cases of H5N1 and Influenza A Virus Surveillance 5.06.25By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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