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Erm… bird flu?
Yeah buddy, they tend to do that.
Anyway, who is excited for some new unprecedented times?
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God I'm feeling like the early days of the covid pandemic, hearing about this distant epidemic with these various news stories coming out about how this thing is getting bigger and bigger as it steadily creeps closer to where it might effect me. I'll be interested to see how people react if this explodes into a full-blown pandemic though. I'm not hopeful, to say the least.
I will point out though that the story says all close contacts tested negative, which I think would mean there's no human-to-human transmission? If so, I'm interested as to how it did reach him - maybe raw milk or undercooked chicken/eggs? It also says there were farms near the patient's home, so maybe there was some contact with poultry/cows? I know it's being reported there was no contact with poultry, but I'm assuming this is just because contact can't be confirmed since he's not a farmworker or anything. But if he's living around farmland there can of course still be contact.
well I hope my new 65" OLED tv shows up before the next lockdowns starts (who am I kidding there's not gonna be another lockdown)
Hopefully it shows up before the mail stops coming at least
can't you get exposed just from bird shit? i doubt contact with strictly 'agricultural' animals is necessary. the super bewildering portion of the story is the patient was on bed-rest for 3 weeks. that strongly implies they weren't exposed to normal environmental vectors, but i don't know how confidently they could rule out the patient having gotten it before being bedridden.
Looking forward to the breathless Westoid articles about the Chinese pigeons conscripted to shit in people's mouths all over the world to spread their sinister bioweapon.
yeah I remember reading it can be spread just through bird shit, which is honestly horrifying. I have bird shit on my car right now and I'm scared to touch it. But yeah I think you're right, contact with birds is enough to spread it.