CDC Confirms First Human Case of Severe Bird Flu In US 83
The CDC has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States. NPR reports: Louisiana health officials initially reported the infection last week, saying a person was hospitalized after being exposed to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks. On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared their findings that indicate the H5N1 virus responsible for the illness belongs to a genetic lineage that's circulating in wild birds and poultry -- different from what's spreading in dairy cattle and driving the majority of infections in agricultural workers.
In the U.S., more than 60 people have been infected so far, although some research suggests the official tally may be an undercount. The illnesses linked to dairy cattle have largely led to mild illnesses in humans.
The version of the virus in the Louisiana case is the so-called "D1.1 genotype." It has previously popped up in poultry workers in Washington state, who developed mild symptoms after testing positive in October. More recently, however, a teenager in British Columbia was hospitalized after contracting this D1.1 strain of the virus. Canadian health officials were unable to figure out how that person was infected. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis with the CDC, told reporters on Wednesday that bird blu has a well-established history of leading to severe illness and death. He added: "Infections without a clear source of exposure do occur, neither these cases nor the cases with known animal or animal products exposure have resulted in human to human transmission." California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency as the H5N1 bird flu virus moves from the Central valley to Southern California herds. The declaration will allow for a more streamlined approach among state and local agencies to tackle the virus, providing "flexibility around staffing, contracting, and other rules to support California's evolving response,'" reports the Los Angeles Times, citing a statement from Newsom's office.
"Building on California's testing and monitoring system -- the largest in the nation -- we are committed to further protecting public health, supporting our agriculture industry, and ensuring that Californians have access to accurate, up-to-date information," said Newsom in a statement. "While the risk to the public remains low, we will continue to take all necessary steps to prevent the spread of this virus."
Further reading:
US Government Orders Nationwide Testing of Milk for Bird Flu to Stop the Virus's Spread
Bird Flu Fears Stoke the Race for an mRNA Flu Vaccine
In the U.S., more than 60 people have been infected so far, although some research suggests the official tally may be an undercount. The illnesses linked to dairy cattle have largely led to mild illnesses in humans.
The version of the virus in the Louisiana case is the so-called "D1.1 genotype." It has previously popped up in poultry workers in Washington state, who developed mild symptoms after testing positive in October. More recently, however, a teenager in British Columbia was hospitalized after contracting this D1.1 strain of the virus. Canadian health officials were unable to figure out how that person was infected. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis with the CDC, told reporters on Wednesday that bird blu has a well-established history of leading to severe illness and death. He added: "Infections without a clear source of exposure do occur, neither these cases nor the cases with known animal or animal products exposure have resulted in human to human transmission." California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency as the H5N1 bird flu virus moves from the Central valley to Southern California herds. The declaration will allow for a more streamlined approach among state and local agencies to tackle the virus, providing "flexibility around staffing, contracting, and other rules to support California's evolving response,'" reports the Los Angeles Times, citing a statement from Newsom's office.
"Building on California's testing and monitoring system -- the largest in the nation -- we are committed to further protecting public health, supporting our agriculture industry, and ensuring that Californians have access to accurate, up-to-date information," said Newsom in a statement. "While the risk to the public remains low, we will continue to take all necessary steps to prevent the spread of this virus."
Further reading:
US Government Orders Nationwide Testing of Milk for Bird Flu to Stop the Virus's Spread
Bird Flu Fears Stoke the Race for an mRNA Flu Vaccine
Great news for WFH crusaders! (Score:2, Insightful)
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Make POLIO GREAT AGAIN
O.K. that's not fair. Comparing competent science with incompetent worms.
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I can waste time at the office just as easily.
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But that's not the point, the point is to keep commercial real estate values up and to do stealth layoffs.
Re:Great news for WFH crusaders! (Score:5, Informative)
weirdly our office had a larger big screen, couches and multiple gaming consoles.. plus beer in the fridge... we weirdly got more accomplished working from home and never used the stuff at the offices... but did have team gaming nights (after work) between management and staff playing video games to relax even pre-wfh.
Staff were happier, clients were scoring us with higher satisfaction scores... revenue and profits all saw record high increases... and so was team engagement and retention...
If you trust your staff, hold them accountable and people act like adults... WFH can be a success... all without heavy handed monitoring/surveillance.
That BS attitude above ("get another go-around in 2025! Hook the PS5 back up in the home office and clear your schedule!") is from those that don't know how to manage teams, or are themselves that staff member everyone hopes would get fired for ruining a good thing for everyone by doing stupid crap. So i get why it was posted as A/C.
The push for return to office is a stealth lay-off and studies are finally coming out stating what everyone has been saying - the best/highest performing employees leave when you force RTO.
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The absolute best company I worked for did exactly this, until it got bought out. WFH just worked, and from all measures, there was effectively zero change between when people were at the office versus when people were at home. Of course, the 2020 transition was bumpy, but the BCP plan had it in place where all employees had good laptops under warranty just in case of a disaster. No Big Brother spying, not even staring at Event Viewer logs. You can tell who is performing and who isn't without any of tha
Re:Great news for WFH crusaders! (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, none of that is important. For people like the OP the misery is the point. It might be because they're authoritarians who think it's good for everyone to be bossed around and to obey. They might be religious types who think it makes you a better person, or more godly, or not a papist. Most likely they were just raised by one of those, or their parents were, and they soaked up the attitude without ever thinking about where it came from or why they feel that way.
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“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?“
Winston thought. “By making him suffer”, he said.
“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough."
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Just in time for (Score:1)
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popcorn... and Trump approved disinfectant injections?
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Guess where the fluorescent tubes go?
RFK Jr.: Mr. President, I'm terribly sorry you contacted the Bird Flu, Version 2.5, it's rather vicious. I'm here to disinfect you.
el Bunko: Sure, what must I do.
RFK Jr.: I need to insert this fluorescent tube.
el Bunko leans back in chair and opens mouth
RFK. Jr.: Not there, stand up, drop your pants, and bend over the Oval Office....no, not Melania, she closed that thing during your last alleged presidency.
el Bunko: Are you sure this is safe?
RFK Jr.: Oh fer sure, fer sur
Re:So pathetic, you can see this coming a mile off (Score:4, Funny)
It just wouldn't work. How would Kamala stir up a group of Kamala supporters to go break into the Capital with Hang Kamala signs and threaten Kamala into refusing to certify, while promising to go with them but not being there but also being there?
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Just the reverse. The Deep State will want Trump in power as soon as possible, with Kennedy in charge of public health.
It's time to thin the American herd...weed out the weak and the stupid. What better way than to make sure vaccines are hard to get and easy to avoid.
Re: So pathetic, you can see this coming a mile of (Score:3, Insightful)
It's time to thin the American herd...weed out the weak and the stupid. What better way than to make sure vaccines are hard to get and easy to avoid.
No that's the exact opposite of what the Republicans want. Thin the herd by getting rid of anyone with half a brain, like those pesky scientists with their Climate Change facts. Need the populace to be stupid and easy to control. Will make it easier to get rid of Social Security and invest tax revenue into crypto.
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Don't they have armed rednecks in trucks for that?
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It's time to thin the American herd...weed out the weak and the stupid. What better way than to make sure vaccines are hard to get and easy to avoid.
No that's the exact opposite of what the Republicans want. Thin the herd by getting rid of anyone with half a brain, like those pesky scientists with their Climate Change facts. Need the populace to be stupid and easy to control. Will make it easier to get rid of Social Security and invest tax revenue into crypto.
Rednecks tend to be pretty stout. Science nerds tend to be weaker, and not spend as much time in the dirt, lowering their immune system response. This could all work out beautifully for the Republicans.
Re:So pathetic, you can see this coming a mile off (Score:4, Funny)
It's time to thin the American herd...weed out the weak and the stupid.
How will Republicans ever win again if they do that?
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and overblown restrictions from COVID-19
Those restrictions are what kept the death toll to only 1.2 million people. Had nothing been done and people left to their own it is guaranteed the toll would have been twice as high, if not three times. And that would just be the dead. The number of people filling hospitals for treatment would have overwhelmed the entire system. If you thought businesses had a hard time with those limited restrictions, imagine them trying to exist when their customers can't come
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Those restrictions are what kept the death toll to only 1.2 million people. Had nothing been done and people left to their own it is guaranteed the toll would have been twice as high, if not three times.
It is extraordinary to speak in terms of guarantees with respect to a counterfactual. Of course you will be providing substantive evidence to support your statements I assume? I've provided evidence of no to limited impact on deaths due to government imposed mandates below.
People were complaining about restrictions tanking the economy when in fact the economy tanked itself before any meaningful restrictions were ever imposed. Masks went flying off the shelves of hardware stores and WWII era museums alike
Re:So pathetic, you can see this coming a mile off (Score:4, Informative)
Those overblown restrictions also caused the number of reported flu cases in 2021-2022 to drop by 76%.
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You cant have cases when you arent diagnosing for it.
Most flu cases are inferred from clinical symptomatic diagnosis, not tested for.
Which is why the charts usually are for ILI (Influenza Like Illnesses) not for Influenza specificaly.
If everyone with a respiratory disease is told to use this covid test and stay home, reported cases will drop off a cliff.
Which is exactly what happened. It had nothing to do with the restrictions.
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That must be why so many doctors, urgent care centers, and hospitals went out of business - because everyone stayed home instead of seeing a professional.
Oh, wait, that didn't happen.
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Oh boy.
Just use google and target dates during 2020-2022.
Hospitals did close their doors, thousands of nurses and doctors where furloughed.
Such a short memory you have.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21... [cnn.com]
Re:So pathetic, you can see this coming a mile off (Score:5, Insightful)
Only modern Republicans have any kind of track record for trying to disrupt the transfer of power. Notice how there is no widespread doubting of election results by Democrats? But go ahead, keep believing the other side HAS to be worse despite having no evidence. "Evidence" being so 20th century for modern Republicans.
Re:So pathetic, you can see this coming a mile off (Score:5, Funny)
The new Jumbo Shrimp.
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Hillary supporters and major media outlets questioned, deprecated, denied election results for the entirety of Trumps first term. A corrupt administrative state spent the entirety of that term trying to frame the sitting president for treason. After eight years of claiming that Trump was the next Hitler and the abject failure of all that lawfare, you got a few thankfully unsuccessful assassination attempts. How's that for evidence, you dishonest fuckhead.
You're right, that is pretty dishonest. In fact everything you wrote was a complete fiction.
1. Hillary conceded the election, no one doubted Trump was elected... What people doubted was his honesty, credibility and capability... which turned out to be quite correct.
2. No one is trying to frame Trump for treason... he actually did it.
3. Trump isn't the next Hitler, despite both of them being extreme right ideologues that will be destroyed by their own ideologies... Hitler was a competent leader, recogni
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Trump is a Fascist and if you don't think so then you are not competent to judge and very likely do not know what Fascism actually is. You should try really hard to read a book. Plenty exist that predate today's politics; unless you think there is a liberal conspiracy to go back in time and write books describing Trump about Fascism. Conspiracies are a big part of Fascism; and it's also a franchise by design. Trump is way more Mussolini; the original Fascist. If they manage to win at their cause you'll be
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Your far right news is rotting your brain, Hillary conceded the 2016 election https://youtu.be/khK9fIgoNjQ?s... [youtu.be] .
As for Trump being the next Hitler, well when you make up lies scape goating immigrants (most recent example, Hattian immigrants) and cast doubt and disenfranchise large numbers of people in regards to our country's democratic foundations (which Trump has been doing since the 2016 election https://www.bbc.com/news/elect... [bbc.com] ) well it turns out he's kind of earning said claim. Particularly since he
Re:So pathetic, you can see this coming a mile off (Score:5, Funny)
Marital law? Does that mean assigned spouses?
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Seconded! Build a wall around 'Lago and make Don pay for it!
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No need to fear (Score:3, Insightful)
Now if RFK jr can just get rid of the pesky Polio vaccine...
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I've always resented vaccines for not allowing for my freedom to be killed or crippled by Polio.
I need to go track down a polio vaccine now (Score:2)
Polio is harder. I haven't been able to find a lab that can test me.
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Ha, family. We dont get to chose them or their beliefs.
Is there some sort of down side to being vaccinated for polio a second time? You do you of course but with the increasing numbers of unvaccinated kids I know I take at least a little relief in the fact that at least I've had my shots.
I can't really tell (Score:3)
It's like how there aren't a lot of Z80 assembly programmers left.
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"It's like how there aren't a lot of Z80 assembly programmers left."
[raises hand] Still here. Might be a bit rusty.
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My mom was a nutter and I suspected
Trust me we also suspected :-P
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If you haven't gone Vegan (Score:1)
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Here we go again... (Score:1, Flamebait)
On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency "to streamline and expedite the stateâ(TM)s response" to bird flu. There have been 33 cases of human bird flu confirmed in California this year, according to the CDC.
With more than 35 million residents in California, the risk is literally less than one in a million, and the governor is already declaring a state of emergency!
It's one thing to lament the online conspiracy theorists, but quite another when the governor makes c
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And a month from now when nothing happens in regards to this will you learn a lesson or will you just invent a new fiction to try to demonize the other side with?
Never mind the fact that California mobilizing its national guard would do absolutely nothing to halt the coming transfer of power.
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Can you enlighten me why a state on the complete opposite side of the country would need the national guard on inauguration day? Not like we're going to have another January 6th.
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Nice troll. Do you have evidence that Newsome is planning to fly them all to Washington to attempt a Trump-style coup?
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Reminder: not everyone thinks evidence has any bearing on anything.
Re:Here we go again... (Score:5, Informative)
Don't know what declaring a state of emergency means, do ya? It doesn't mean what you think it means. The declaration is exactly what you quoted. It expedites the state's response to a situation. Normally disparate organizations who don't interact all that much would come together as one unit and combine their efforts. It streamlines processes and allows for faster response to a situation than otherwise would normally exist. Here is a description [ncdps.gov] of what it means to declare a state of emergency.
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You know you're in trouble when your government considers cooperation between departments something that requires an emergency before it happens.
Re:Here we go again... (Score:5, Interesting)
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, daily news are wondering while the US take so long to react. Here one paper 'America's handling of the bird flu crisis is putting, and will continue to put, the entire world at risk' https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opin... [lemonde.fr] (paywalled, but first paragraphs readable; English version for your convenience).
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Perhaps to make it easier to help the chicken/turkey farmers? Up here in BC, one fuck of a lot of bird farms have had to kill their flocks.
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Fact Check: FALSE.
Ivermectin tubes are nowhere near as large as a horse. The largest tube that Tractor Supply Co. sells is about a quarter ounce. If we forget about tubes, the largest container that TSC sells ivermectin in is only 5 liters, which is still far smaller than even a small pony.
The Next Pandemic Will be Bad (Score:3, Insightful)
Starting next month, the CDC will be gutted. We'll all be back in the 19th century, dying from easily preventable diseases.
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Think of the profits for the food industry, no more having to keep stuff clean.
Zoonosis ... (Score:2)
This is zoonosis in action: pathogens jumping from species to species, including humans, which happens all the time.
So, when you see claims about the lab leak theory for SARS-CoV-2, remember that zoonosis and natural origins is where the evidence points [slashdot.org] ...