Summary
A new H5N1 bird flu variant has become “endemic in cows,” with cases detected in Nevada and Arizona, raising concerns about human transmission.
Experts warn that without intervention, the outbreak will continue, but Trump has cut CDC staff and halted flu vaccination campaigns.
The virus’s spread coincides with a severe flu season, increasing the risk of mutation.
The administration has also stopped sharing flu data with the WHO and shifted its containment strategy away from culling infected poultry, raising fears of inadequate response.
Can this be passed through milk? Maybe the Fascism problem will solve itself if Bobby Brainworm convinces all the fascists to drink more raw milk …
Government told people to never drink raw milk. The sale and consumption of raw milk went up in ivermectin loving circles. It’s weird reverse psychology with raw milk.
Dairy farmer here, who fought this crap off when we still didnt know what it was.
Bird flu contaminated raw milk in cats, yeah it will kill the shit out of them. Its what helped us figure out what it was in the first place. Nothing confirmed so far as humans being infected from consumption that i am aware of currently, but i personally wouldnt try it.
The dairy workers that got bird flu. It was pinkeye that popped positive for h5. Probably splashback from either milk or fecal. It wasnt really a big deal other than conjunctivitis sucks.
But if you drink raw milk, you are playing russian roulette as patient zero at this point. Dont do it.
It seems so. I’ve been buying ultra-pasteurized which may be sufficient.
Yes it can be and the problem is these idiots are also gonna give that milk to their children. Who don’t deserve to suffer for the sins of their parents.
It’s all fun* and games until there’s human to human transmission.
(*Darwin award “fun”)
Also was just found to be infecting rats for the first time ever documented.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, there’s a case of two exclusively indoor cats catching it. One prominent theory is that the humans in the household passed it to them.
Think about how many cats aren’t being reported.
Like, if my cat drops dead I’m just burying her. No one would ever know.
If the 5 strays that hang outside my apartment died of it I’d just bury them too. No one would have a clue.
Great point, and H5N1 can kill cats within like 24 hours (not sure if that’s exposure or first symptoms). So, you’re not paying close attention to your cat for even just a matter of hours, it dies, you don’t know why, and just bury it.
Yes, its being tracked in via fecal matter on your shoes.
Raw catfood has infected some cats as well.
The price of beef is about to go the way of the price of eggs.
Down, right?
Down, right?
See, if you bury your head in the sand, the virus can’t get you
Well, ya know, it’s primarily a respiratory disease among humans. You literally aren’t likely to catch if if your head is buried in sand. And once you suffocate or whatever, you won’t have to worry about the flu.
This is the kind of outside the box thinking that makes this nation great.
Well, inside the sand thinking.
Just do this:
- stop testing,
- stick a lightbulb up their rear
- put some horse paste in their feed
- disinfectant in their water
- ???
- Profit
I’m back on the carnivore diet because it’s been really the only thing to help with my long-covid that has been on my ass ever since the pandemic started.
And now this is going to make that harder.
The same guy I hold responsible for my long-covid is going to get me fucked up yet again. How’s that for irony?
Can you do fish or pork? Those two don’t seem to be effected
Yep! But I add ghee to the fish because it’s too lean.
My complaint is mostly due to the threat of dwindling variety. And beef is my favorite.
Ah, find a local farmer, buy a full cows cut asap before the price spikes, toss the 500lbs of beef in a deep freezer. Bam profit?
Eat fish like the Japanese do. They live the longest for a reason.
For sure! In before the bird flu spreads to fish somehow…
I’m eating vegetarian, mostly vegan, mostly for those reasons.
People confusing this with COVID might be in for a surprise because if this becomes a human pandemic it will likely be much worse.
Agreed. Maybe if we didn’t have so many goddamn Republicans, especially with power and platforms. Even under Kamala, it’d be bad, but with these chucklefucks in charge right now…
Moo Flu.
Surely some rich republican ranchers can get Trump’s attention…
Maybe it will get people to start drinking plant based milk if the price of course milk skyrockets like it has with eggs. All the IGF-1 in dairy isn’t good for you and could even be part of the reason for the rise in colorectal cancer (the amount of dairy we consume nowadays in nuts).
I mainly drink milk in the form of half and half for coffee. Obviously, plant milk is garbage for this purpose.
I use almond, soy, and/or oat milk for my coffee and tea and like it alright. Different strokes for different folks.
Really it’s not. Grocery chains carry good alternatives even in really rural areas nowadays. If you haven’t tried one in the last few years the options out now are quite a bit better. I typically use Planet Oat in my coffee.
Pumpkin seed milk is so good. Too bad it’s hard to come by. Harder still for zero sugar versions.
Bird flu for the meats, tariffs for everything else (and probably affecting meats as well). I wonder how this will affect our food supply during Great Depression II compared to the dust bowl and tariffs in the first one.
Hopefully we don’t have the dust bowl as well, but I do wonder how prices for staples like rice and beans might go up if the meat and dairy supply is tainted…
After fucking it up on a global pandemic there were people attacking the Capitol to defend him. He’s just trying to repeat that achievement.
This is seriously the dumbest and probably most preventable timeline. Well, except for all the goddamn idiots and apathetic people in the country.
Sigh.
Username checks out.
Good.
