New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’
New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’
Dairy herds in Nevada have been infected by a version of the H5N1 bird flu not previously seen in cows, putting virologists on high alert.
It’s a matter of time before some variant mutate and enable fall on human human transmission. When was the Spanish flu pandemic.. 1918
Yes, and I've heard people say "It'll be OK; the strain that goes pandemic won't be as lethal as the current strains." There's some truth in this, that extremely deadly viruses will tend to burn themselves out by killing their hosts so not spread so widely. So perhaps bird flu transmitted from person to person would not sustain the extremely high death rates this type of flu has shown in people in the past. But as the 1918 flu and even the COVID pandemic show, there's a lot of wiggle room for a virus between utterly deadly and utterly harmless, and even something that's far from the worst can still go pandemic and cause huge amounts of death, disruption and misery.
No coincidences, trump will always bring disease and ruin. You keep welcoming the fox back into the henhouse, America.
Between this and Gaza (and everything else), I really honestly don't think we have seen a person in all of human history who checks more boxes of being the antichrist.
Like fuck, he literally brings pestilence and disease with him.
If it escapes under Trump's leadership can we call it the trump virus? Please?
Trump virus 2
Bird flu boogaloo
Morbus Maga.
The constant edging with bird flu mania is going to make people not pay attention when it actually pops off.
The problem is that the CDC isn't getting to say anything right now, so we can assume that the moment they get to talk about it, the stupidest people you know are going to go "woah this was really sudden! They clearly made it in a lab!"
This is it popping off. We've already lost a huge portion of chickens in the US. We're seeing dozens of cases in humans. And it's in cows too. The only reason it doesn't feel like a big deal is because we as a nation aren't doing anything about it yet, only individual farms are. Same way COVID went from "is this a big deal?" to "oh fuck shut everything down".
The big event will be someone with regular human flu getting bird flu, giving the virus opportunities to swap DNA segments. If it gets the transmissibility of our standard influenza and the lethality of bird flu, it'll be a rough six months to a year before we have vaccines for it as it rips through our population.
Especially considering flu vaccines are made with eggs, and this disease is currently thoroughly decimating our egg producing livestock.
If we just stop testing it will go away like magic. Did you learn nothing from Covid?
The little boy who called bird flu, but I think the call here is that it is difficult to feel safe behind the idea that it does not cross the species barrier when you have bird flu in cows.
And this time there will be zero investment in stopping it spreading when it starts killing people
When would you like to be alarmed? For me it was when it jumped to mammals.
If we could get enough people to stop eating animal products at the same time, it would simultaneously lower their personal risks of infection, the risks of another pandemic, and it could hit the animal ag industries hard - who are some of the largest funders of the gop.
The worst thing the left could do is go after people’s meat.
Set environmental targets and cruelty laws, but get out of here with associating the left with veganism.
Really? Cause if nothing else, every dollar you spend on animal products may as well be a direct donation to the republican party. And environmental targets? Good luck with that if you support meat and dairy.
Sorry, but animal consumption and commodification is so thoroughly embedded in the conservative identity, that if you're going to be anti-vegan, you may as well start wearing this shirt.
In the last pandemic, we couldn't get people to wear a mask sometimes without them losing their shit.
Should we have all stopped wearing masks because some people refused to? Should we all be anti-vacc because some people are?
If you're so constantly focused on your perceived enemies that you fill your time and mental energy with trying to tear them down, then yeah, you're going to lose sight of what you're reaching for in the first place. Change yourself first, and as you live by your own word, your example in and of itself has at least some automatic impact on changing others - even if those changes are gradual and take time.
Don't lose sight of the fact that even a single person changing their diet will have less risk of death because of that.
I love the enthusiasm but the movement would immediately be labelled as woke and a lot of people would start eating more animals just to “own the libs”
Nah, we just need to lean into their toxic male fragility. Remind them it's super gay to have some animal's meat in their mouth. So juicy it slides right down your throat. Yeah, you enjoy that beef on your tongue, you slut?
If we really pushed that message, Joe Rogan would be vegan within a week.
I’ve been doing my part of drinking stuff with oat milk and eating a plant based diet
Corona 2 electric boogaloo here we come!
There is also a reputed new cat-to/from-human transmission vector for H5N1, which was briefly noted in a CDC report last week before being redacted: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/health/cdc-bird-flu-cats-people.html . NYT article may be paywalled, but details can be found in other media sources as well.
The mask thing is going to be so funny again..... I guess .. ughhhhhhhhhhhh. Subscribe to the WHO if you haven't already
I'd be more than willing to build special warehouses for the unvaccinated manned by doctors and midwives with tons of knowledge about holistic medicine and essential oils, get them out of real hospitals
wouldn't doubt if this is musk and thiel, sowing chaos.
also wouldn't doubt if covid was them too.
just like how thiel dry runned a bank collapse with silcon valley bank. or musk dry runned doge with Twitter.
they dry runned h5n1 with cov19.
