"Bird flu, feared as a possible pandemic, poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads, scientists warn"

Content warning on the video there: footage from animal farms.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-flu-risk-as-pathogen-spreads-60-minutes-transcript/

If you're wondering why there hasn't been more news, it's because... **Don't test, Don't find.**

#birdFlu #pandemic #epidemic #zoonosis #panzootic #mooFlu #cows

#H5N1 #birdflu #mooflu #cowflu #CDC

"The journal released data suggesting some spillovers from dairy cattle into humans have gone undetected, including in states where dairy herds have not tested positive."

What could possibly go wrong? /sarcasm

#getyourmaskready

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5296672/cdc-bird-flu-study-mmwr-veterinarians

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7404a2.htm?s_cid=mm7404a2_w

"H5N1 is adapting to new mammalian hosts, raising the possibility of the virus spreading between humans."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00245-6

In case it's not clear by now, biosecurity measures either aren't being taken seriously or are useless. Considering the various responses that I've seen over the last year, with my confirmation bias of course, serious biosecurity is bad for the animal farming business short-term profit goals.

#h5n1 #birdFlu #avianInfluenza #mooFlu #zoonosis #birdFarming #eggFarming #cowFarming #goVegan #fluHyperobject #hyperobjects

"How Close Are We to the Avian Flu Outbreak Escalating Into a Pandemic?"

https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/01/16/how-close-are-we-avian-flu-outbreak-escalating-pandemic-49241

A nice and readable article. I'll only quote one paragraph:

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Where are we now? As Dr. Jeremy Faust, a Harvard Medical School physician, warns, “our current circumstance is akin to a game of Russian Roulette — and there have never been more bullets in the chamber.”
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#birdFlu #avianInfluenza #mooFlu #zoonosis #zoonoses #pandemic #pandemicene #animalFarming #goVegan

A seminar on Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 (HPAI H5N1) by an expert:

"The global expansion of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza - Prof Thijs Kuiken"

The useful part is probably the quick history of H5N1 and its HPAI version. Spoiler: it's because of bird farms. The whole presentation has a veterinary and epidemiological angle, it's not by vegans or for vegans.

Note: the presented data is outdated now in terms of how much more the virus has spread, but the rest is solid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImFD8sLFfvo

Keep these bits of information in mind for the near future when the conspiracy clowns will come out claiming that it's a "lab leak" or some other red herring.

#HPAI #h5n1 #bridFlu #avianInfluenza #pasteurization #milk #mooFlu #rawMilk #pandemicene #epdemic #zoonosis #panzootic #goVegan

"Study Warns That Cats Might Be Bird Flu Carriers"

https://www.healthday.com/health-news/pets/study-warns-that-cats-might-be-bird-flu-carriers

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🙀 Cats may provide a pathway for bird flu to infect humans

🙀 Public health experts urge increased bird flu surveillance in felines

🙀 Bird flu has a high mortality rate in cats, posing significant health risks
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Bird flu, like COVID-19, is a multi-species disease. How many species? Let's not find out.

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The virus, which began circulating in dairy cattle earlier this year, has killed many cats, mainly on farms where herds were infected. It has also sickened at least 60 people, most of whom had direct contact with infected dairy cows or poultry.
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One of the "signals" of bird flu at a cow farm is dead cats... the canary in the casein mine.

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Cats frequently mingle with both wild animals and people, which could turn them into a bridge for the virus to evolve.
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Another reason for --indoor-- cats.

There's also a possibility, usually, in government biosecurity plans, that if there's an outbreak involving humans, companion animals like cats and dogs will be taken and killed.

#h5n1 #mooFlu #avianInfluenza #HPAI #birdFlu #cats #outbreak #zoonosis #zoonoses #pets

"How Bureaucratic Infighting, Dairy Industry Lobbying Have Worsened H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak (Part 2)"

Another article detailing the "business supremacy" status quo in the US even at the risk of a pandemic. The article also highlights the fact that the USDA is a state within a state, it's Big Ag's State. There are so many conflicts of interest there, and it's important to understand what they are to know who is going to be harmed aside from the cows and chickens.

As with other crises, the "bad times" help to show who's been foolish and unwise. It's when the debt for ignorance and selfishness gets paid.

Eventually, even the overly protected animal pharmers will suffer as the diseases rip through their "living stocks" and various commerce barriers are raised to isolate the damage from others.

Much like the potable water crises (also tied to Big Ag), societies will have to choose between saving access to a necessity for all OR saving capital owners and related jobs.

So how many will die this time on the animal-blood soaked altar to business?

For those who don't know yet, go look up how big the wild animal farming sector has been and is in China.

I don't think that "One Health" is going to cut it.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/11/19/how-bureaucratic-infighting-dairy-industry-lobbying-have-worsened-h5n1-bird-flu

#avianInfluenza #mooFlu #pandemic #epidemic #zoonosis #OneHealth #USA #h5n1 #birdFlu #covid #sars-cov-2 #animalFarming #capitalism #businessAsUsual #USDA #goVegan

Remember how SARS-CoV-2 emerged out of China's wild animal farms and traditional markets, and how the government there failed to prevent it, stop it, and investigate it seriously? (Yes, the lableakers are still 🤡.)

Well, the US government is doing the same with the avian influenza strain which are emerging as a large outbreak across multiple species, and among the US bird and cow farming sector. This avian influenza virus has also infected a mysterious amount of workers so far, possibly dozens, and it's just one bad day away from getting adaptations to become a new pandemic in humans (such as by mixing with pig influenza or with seasonal influenza).

Here's a long article showing a bit of the governmental failure and how that's tied to the meat industry and the "state within a state" which is the USDA:

"Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-bungled-bird-flu-response

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“The functional intent was, nobody was allowed to talk to anyone,” says a Midwestern veterinary specialist. “That’s when our phones started ringing. That’s when we started putting it all together. It became very clear: Everything was on the down low, and that really hampered the response from the very beginning.”
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While the meat industry is more "cool" about killing sick chickens, they abhor the idea of killing sick cows. It's a weirder instance of speciesism.

One Health? More like One Sickness. You know what it is.

#avianInfluenza #birdFlu #mooFlu #biosecurity #USDA #USA #dairy #BigDairy #BigMilk #BigMeat #zoonosis #zoonoses #pandemic #epidemic #panzootic #epizootic #oneHealth #publicHealth

Think Like a Vegan: What are zoonotic diseases and how do they affect us and other animals?

"Maybe you think about Covid 19. How about HIV-AIDS? Is your impression that zoonotic illnesses are something relatively new? Or uncommon?
In this episode, I'll explore just how far back in time zoonotic illnesses go and think about how our entanglement with other animals affects us -- and them -- on a cellular level"

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinklikeavegan/episodes/What-are-zoonotic-diseases-and-how-do-they-affect-us-and-other-animals-e2nuipd

MP3: https://anchor.fm/s/89f274c8/podcast/play/91228397/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-8-3%2F01046717-5d98-4028-7cf5-f49ec6d6d77c.mp3

#zoonosis #animalIndustry #farming #mooflu

#MooFlu forever

The NYT finally notices that the avian influenza virus been victorious in infecting US cow farms:

"How U.S. Farms Could Start a Bird Flu Pandemic"

https://archive.is/5eOOt

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/health/bird-flu-cattle-pandemic.html

The virus is not going away. Apparently, the cows' udders are excellent viral breeding spots. So the Big Dairy industry is going to literally fulfill Rob Wallace's book title from years ago: "Big farms make big flu".

The fact that it's endemic in cows or "enzootic", as they put it, means that the cows are plague spreaders. Wherever they go: bird flu. Wherever the raw milk goes: bird flu. Whoever works there: bird flu. Whoever works there and travels to other animal farms... flu chaos. That's the thing, influenza viruses don't stay the same, they evolve and they also mix with other influenza viruses ("reassortment"). This means that any other influenza virus needs to be kept away from these cows, including seasonal flu (humans) and pig flu. What are the odds of this isolation happening successfully long-term?

The NYT article noticed that this failure is akin to what happened in China in 2019 when they successfully failed to end the (very large and profitable) wild animal farming sector which was the breeding ground for SARS-CoV-2. Whoever is reading this, you can be certain that there already are "lab leak" conspiracy theories about the mooFlu in the US. Neither regimes are going to do anything about it, as these sectors are large and create GDP, and what is needed is to end them.

#avianInfluenza #HPAI #milk #bigMIlk #bigDairy #cows #cattle #zoonosis #pandemic #birdFlu #enzootic #capitalism #BigBusiness #BigFarms #BigFlu