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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general says i
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Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general says it feels like 2020 again. Story by mmcfalljohnsen@businessinsider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen) • 1d • 4 min read - The H5N1 bird flu virus is spreading through US cattle herds for the first time. - The mammal-to-mammal transmission has scientists worried the virus could mutate to spread between humans. - Former surgeon general Jerome Adams fears the US is making the mistakes of 2020 all over again. Bird flu is flying wild. In recent months the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus has been spreading through US cattle herds for the first time ever. The cow-to-cow transmission is the latest escalation in a global outbreak that began when the virus reemerged in Europe in 2020. It has since killed tens of millions of birds and more than 40,000 sea lions and seals in South America. World Health Organization chief scientist Jeremy Farrar called this an "animal pandemic" on April 18. Genetic fragments of the virus, discovered in grocery store milk on Tuesday, suggest the cattle outbreak is more widespread than officials believed, The Washington Post reported. Experts told the Post that drinking pasteurized milk is probably still safe. Pasteurization deactivates pathogens, probably including H5N1, according to the Food and Drug Administration. However, no studies have specifically tested whether pasteurizing milk deactivates H5N1. According to the New York Times, the FDA is testing that now. One human in Texas has tested positive for the virus after exposure to dairy cattle. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that person's only symptom was eye redness. There has been no known human-to-human transmission. Still, future mutation could allow the virus to spread more easily to and between humans — a possibility of "great concern" to Farrar. |
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From: shatterbrain, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general...
URL: 1 in 5 US retail milk samples test positive for H5N1 avian flu fragments
| It don't look good. 🥺 |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general...
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It sure doesn't. |
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From: shatterbrain, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general...
URL: Worker who caught bird flu shows bleeding in his eyeballs
| Good gawd, if you get hit with this sucker...this is how you'll LOOK !! |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general...
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So yucky...it's hard to look and a bit shocking when I opened the link...I did not linger. |
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