Our introduction to May 11's "The first case of a walrus dying of bird flu registered on Svalbard"
Bird to mammal (including humans) Avian Flu transmission has been happening for years [centuries, millennia?]. It's mammal to mammal H5N1 spread that would get frightening. And especially respiratory transmission. That said, it doesn't sound like the Walrus got it from another mammal or that it became a buffet for a polar bear or ten....
Potentially very not good.
And from LiveScience, June 3:
This infection, tied to an ongoing outbreak in cows, is the first in the U.S. to cause respiratory symptoms, but not the first H5N1 case in the world to do so.
A third human case of bird flu has been linked to the ongoing outbreak in cows on U.S. dairy farms — and this one came with respiratory symptoms, such as cough, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported May 30.
Officials first became aware of bird flu spreading among U.S. dairy cows in March, and since then, the viral disease has been detected among cattle on farms in nine states. The type of bird flu spreading is known as H5N1, which has sporadically infected individual humans in the past but has never spread widely from person to person. However, these rare human infections can sometimes be fatal, and there's concern about the virus picking up the necessary mutations to spread easily through the populace.
Prior to the outbreak in cows, only one person in the U.S. had ever been infected with H5N1, as far as we know. Now, since the outbreak began, three people have likely been infected via exposure to sick cows. The first person infected by a cow was in Texas, and the second was in Michigan; both are dairy-farm workers and developed only eye infections from the virus before recovering....
....MUCH MORE
Recently:
- May 28: Iowa Governor Announces Disaster Proclamation for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Sioux County
- "USDA and China CCP lab are creating deadly BIRD FLU viruses as part of $1m collaboration - and YOU are paying for it"
- "Farm worker 'bleeding in eyeballs' after catching bird flu in first case of transmission"
- H5N1 Bird Flu Has Now Been Found In Cattle In Six States
And previously:
- "Bird flu may mutate to kill more than 50% of humans who catch it, as a result of 'unprecedented' outbreak sweeping mammals, experts fear"
- RISK: Don't Look Now But H5N1 Bird Flu Has Been Found To "Efficiently" Spread In Certain Mammals
- Warnings On H5N1 Influenza Seem To Be Increasing
- "Hey, Remember Those Wacky Dutch Scientists Who Weaponized Bird Flu To Kill Half The World's Population?"
- RISK: "'This could be 100 times worse than Covid': Bird flu warning from scientists who say HALF of infections with H5N1 in people are fatal - as White House says it's 'monitoring' the situation"
