Saturday, May 4, 2024

"Farm worker 'bleeding in eyeballs' after catching bird flu in first case of transmission"

From the always reserved, understated Daily Mirror, May 4:

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article32734352.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/1_A-dairy-worker-in-Texas-developed-pinkeye-when-he-got-bird-flu.jpg

New images show a Texan dairy farmer after he was the first case to catch bird flu from a mammal - in this case a cow - as scientists warn that this is a "milestone" of "enormous concern"

The first image of a Texas dairy farmer who caught bird flu from a cow - with his eyeballs seen bleeding.

Thankfully, the man had "very mild" symptoms after contracting HSN1 virus, but the stark image shows how the virus caused bleeding on the surface of his eyeballs. This is because the blood vessels in his eyes popped....

....MUCH MORE

Once again bringing to mind an early-in-the-pandemic, February 29. 2020 post, "Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema":

A great resource for portfolio risk managers.

As just one example, what is the trade if the world is confronted by a real-life version of  "Blindness (2008, Fernando Meirelles), which deals with a fictional disease that causes epidemic blindness, leading to collective hysteria?"
I mean beyond the simplistic "short Luxottica." Duh.

From Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, Volume 26, Number 2—February 2020....
Damn near contemporaneous.