Teenager in critical condition with Canada’s first human case of bird flu
Teenager in critical condition with Canada’s first human case of bird flu
British Columbia teen had no underlying health conditions and had been exposed to dogs, cats and reptiles, officials say
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British Columbia teen had no underlying health conditions and had been exposed to dogs, cats and reptiles, officials say
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241112230713/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/canada-bird-flu-teenager-hospital
Y'all already masking anyway for the current pandemic, right?
Ugh i don't want to step up from the n95 k to the p100 respirator means i gotta shave my beard for a good mask seal. : p
I've heard positive things online about the envo mask from folks with beards. Might have to do a bit of shaping for it tho.
Everyone thinks *i'm sick when they see me in a mask with my post-covid cough and it's like nah, y'all are the heralds of nergal i'm just vibing.
really hoping this is like all the pandemic false alarms that used to go off every year or two prior to COVID and not like COVID
do you guys remember that? in the before times, every year there was some new disease that was going to become a globe spanning pandemic and it always just fizzled out
Looks like a bunch of their contacts were tested and nobody tested positive, and they didn't have contact with a farm... Where the fuck did they contract it from?!
Afaik many birds can carry it. Could be a gull or a canada goose maybe?
but the goose has a syringeThe grey menace from the north! We just take them out as they invade to the South!!!
doesn't Matt think wearing a mask is too woke or something lol
Henry said the province was still identifying the exact strain, but assumes the case is H5N1.
The World Health Organization says H5N1’s risk to humans is low because there is no evidence of human transmission, but the virus has been found in an increasing number of animals including cattle in the United States.
We're really just gonna re-run a Trump pandemic
But if it's taking out teenagers, Trump is going to choke to death on his own dissolved lung goo. Probably his whole cabinet too.
They have ARDS
Unending social murder
How many more will die to keep the blood-treats flowing?
Pls, not again
Eternal
20162020I'm sure we can cope with this well, and all band together to make our public health measures work.
This is deeply unfortunate
So do we change the name to "human formerly known as bird flu" now?
Please you all, do your best to stay safe
We need Pathologic emojis
We missed our chance with Covid-19, but we have been given another
Less contagious than COVID-19, from the Wikipedia article:
Humans - Avian flu viruses, both HPAI and LPAI, can infect humans who are in close, unprotected contact with infected poultry. Incidents of cross-species transmission are rare, with symptoms ranging in severity from no symptoms or mild illness, to severe disease that resulted in death.[43][42] As of February, 2024 there have been very few instances of human-to-human transmission, and each outbreak has been limited to a few people.[44] All subtypes of avian Influenza A have potential to cross the species barrier, with H5N1 and H7N9 considered the biggest threats.[45][46]
Less contagious than COVID-19
So less contagious than the most contagious virus ever known in history? What a relief.
The worry for decades is a mutation that makes it as contagious as it is in birds, which may be a mild game over scenario if it ever happens.
Not to worry, it's not like there's another highly contagious virus making the rounds that bird flu could swap genes with if a coinfection occurs. Aren't we fortunate?
Viruses evolve to spread by spreading. It'll start low and climb up
We are doing our best to learn nothing