"we can't control the flu," but our yearly jab depends on seamless access to information from the WHO
Trump's decision to decouple from WHO and subject public health announcements to political vetting could be deadly to US citizens.
dairy farms being an H5N1 reassortment factory isn't necessarily a good thing.
bird flu research paused
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/artic...cked-meddling/
That's not what it says
my bad, it says Trump has muzzled the CDC and is preventing it from releasing the results of bird flu studies
Snake Boy melts like a snowflake, as ever
while it's completely possible NY Dept. of Health is just exercising due caution, requiring masking, HEPA filtering and negative pressure rooms suggests something more than caution.
that a memo has to be released by the state Dept of Health suggests that the standard level of care is lower for bird flu
A version of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed a person in Louisiana and severely sickened a teenager in Canada has now been detected in dairy herds in Nevada. The version, known as D1.1, is circulating in wild birds around the nation — causing massive die-offs in places such as Chicago, upstate New York and Ohio.https://www.latimes.com/environment/...-nevada-cattleRichard Webby, an influenza researcher in the department of infectious diseases at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., said that while he thinks the findings are unlikely to change the risk outlook for the general population, it will affect the dairy industry.
Anja Raudabaugh, CEO of Western United Dairies — a California dairy trade group — said the discovery was “extraordinary” and should exacerbate industry concern about the virus, which she described as already being “very high.” She hopes it will compel federal officials to work on a bovine vaccine “ASAP” to stop or slow the spread of the disease between cows.
“My farmers do not want to go through another summer with this virus,” she said.
grano salis, I don't have a cite for this
the record was set in April of 2020 -- 14.2%
also, CDC bird flu policy lead steps downInfluenza-Like Illness (ILI) outpatient visits last week hit 13.6%—the second highest ever recorded in NYC’s 2010-2025 dataset.
cats to humans?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...ts-people.html
Trump is afraid bird flu could hurt him, so he's censoring the CDC
We've seen more direct government censorship from Trump 2.0 than from anyone else, at any time in our natural lives
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...ence-cdc-mmwr/Trump administration political appointees have taken steps in recent weeks to exert unprecedented influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flagship medical research publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News. The interference included dictating what to cover and withholding studies on the growing bird flu outbreak.
greedflation hypothesis
“While avian flu has been cited as the primary driver of skyrocketing egg prices, its actual impact on production has been minimal. Instead, dominant egg producers—particularly Cal-Maine Foods—have leveraged the crisis to raise prices, amass record profits, and consolidate market power. The slow recovery in flock size, despite historically high prices, further suggests coordinated efforts to restrict supply and sustain inflated prices,” the letter states.
Key Pricing Facts:
- The wholesale price of Grade-A, Large, White, S Eggs surged from around $0.50–$1.30 per dozen in 2021 to $6.00–$8.00 per dozen today.
- Cal-Maine Foods, which controls 20% of the egg market, increased its gross profits by 237% between FY21 and FY24. Between FY21 and FY23, their gross profits shot up by 646%.
- Cal-Maine has made more in a single quarter than they made in an entire year prior to the 2022 avian flu outbreak.
Evidence indicates that by not increasing their supply, the five dominant egg firms are forcing prices to stay high while reporting dramatic profit increases and level sales. These same firms are then using their increased profits to acquire their compe ion, further driving market consolidation instead of investing in replenishing or expanding their flocks. During the 2015 avian flu outbreak, the national flock numbers were recovered within eight months, yet this time around, a recovery has still not been achieved even though it could have been.https://farmaction.us/farm-action-ca...ricted-supply/another change from the 2015 epidemic is that entry into the market has become significantly harder due to the highly concentrated nature of the breeder supply chain. Today there are just two private European corporations controlling the breeding of an estimated 90% of the world’s egg-layer hens, and Cal-Maine, one of the largest egg producers, controls its own breeder flock. This impedes the ability of new compe ors to enter the market and increase supply to help stabilize prices.
why is bird flu ripping through US dairy farms and not European ones?
maybe because in the US it is legal to feed cows chicken litter
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-h...-flu-outbreak/
He learned all this cacophony of pure from Biden...and figured "If he can do it legally, I can certainly do it as well, and on a scale that will be unbelievable. And the best part, Mel, I can't be stopped. They shot me and I will never sto..."
head in the sand isn't a public health policy
https://archive.is/Y8oNI#selection-1785.1-1813.170The prevalence of the infection has exploded in wild ducks and geese, where it manifests as a gastrointestinal disease and spreads through droppings. The waterfowl’s long-distance migrations allow the virus to travel further, and it’s now been found on every continent except Australia.
Some experts suspect the virus is moving into farms on the wind — in dust contaminated with infectious bird droppings. This infectious dust might also explain several of the 67 recent human cases with no known route of exposure.
The newest variant, D1.1, has caused more serious infections, including the hospitalization of a Canadian teenager in critical condition and the first reported human bird flu deathin Louisiana last month.Last week, scientists announced they’d found D1.1 in infected dairy cattle in Nevada for the first time. A dairy farm worker tested positive for H5N1, the state’s first reported human case.
Scientists fear the D1.1 variant carries a new mutation that helps the virus copy itself more easily onto the cells of mammals, including humans.
H5N1 has been around since the mid-1990s, but in 2021, the virus became what virologists call promiscuous — able to infect various species, including dairy cows, in 2024.
Here's a new one for you to worry about whinehole
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say.
The interval between the onset of symptoms – which include fever, vomiting and internal bleeding – and death has been 48 hours in most cases and “that’s what’s really worrying,” said Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center.
These “hemorrhagic fever” symptoms are commonly linked to known deadly viruses, such as Ebola, dengue, Marburg and yellow fever, but researchers have ruled these out based on tests of more than a dozen samples collected so far.
The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Jan. 21, with 419 cases recorded and 53 deaths.
https://apnews.com/article/congo-mys...68b2c6044dc6db
misfiled
Good thing President Elon buried our heads in the sand.
https://www.livescience.com/health/f...c-experts-warnRFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.
High-ranking federal officials have suggested that bird flu virus should be left to "rip" through poultry farms across the U.S. — but experts warn that this hands-off approach could hasten the beginning of a new pandemic
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Brooke Rollins, secretary of Agriculture, have floated the notion that instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should let it spread through flocks. The idea is that by doing this, farmers can "identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it," Kennedy told Fox News on March 11.
Now, a perspective piece authored by a group of virologists, veterinarians and health security experts argues that the plan would not only be ineffective, but could also increase the risk of the virus spilling over into humans and sparking a new pandemic. The researchers published their arguments July 3 in the journal Science.
"Essentially, the longer you allow a virus that has shown to be effective in infecting multiple hosts survive in an environment, the greater the chance you give it to spread, to mutate, and to try its luck at adaptation," perspective first-author Erin Sorrell, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Live Science. "Worse case scenario, the virus adapts and expands its host range to become transmissible in humans … Now we have a pandemic."
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Those chickens are just lazy and not buying the right supplements.
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