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Experts Fear Bird Flu Outbreak Could Turn Into New Pandemic

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  1. studegator

    studegator GC Legend

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    A new pandemic?

    Experts Fear Bird Flu Outbreak Could Turn Into New Pandemic

    “This is an infection that has epidemic and pandemic potential,” Dr. Isaac Bogoch, a Toronto-based infectious disease specialist, told the CBC. “I don’t know if people recognize how big a deal this is.”
    In October, a large outbreak occurred on a mink fur farm in Spain. Researchers who described the outbreak in a paper published last month believe that wild birds initially transmitted H5N1 to the mink farm, but once there, it spread from mink to mink.

    “This outbreak signals the very real potential for the emergence of mammal-to-mammal transmission,” Michelle Wille, a wild bird virus researcher at the University of Sydney, told the CBC.
     
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  3. QGator2414

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    Must get the minks on their mRNA shot schedule immediately. This is high priority so Big Pharma can get paid. Original series then bivalent. Hopefully by the time they receive the bivalent booster no humans are taking anymore there will be a trivalent booster ready for them. If not…we will just have to go with more bivalent boosting and pray.
     
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  4. exiledgator

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    There are mink farms?!?
     
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  7. gators81

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    You do realize “big pharma” animal division is already a multi-billion dollar industry, right? Vaccines for animals is not a new money making opportunity.
     
  8. Sohogator

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    Mink have been dying in large outbreaks for a while. No one needs mink fur so I’d ban it. Not going to worry till it happens
     
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  9. tilly

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    Mink school closures coming?
     
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  11. Trickster

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    I think the country might be better off if we disbanded the CDC, ceased all research in transmissible diseases and created a Department of Q.
     
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  12. QGator2414

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    And now we have mRNA for them…
     
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  13. BLING

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    I previously had no idea of this disgusting practice, but Covid ripped through the mink farms as well. Apparently it has very high mortality for them. They must be very susceptible to respiratory viruses for whatever reason. I think it was Denmark that culled millions and millions of these animals to stop it going back and forth from animals to humans.
     
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    Every year now there’s a massive animal outbreak that experts fear will turn into a wider problem.
    One of the reasons there is an egg shortage is because tens of millions of birds were killed last year with similar concerns.
    It’s pretty much the new normal.
     
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  16. 14serenoa

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    A mink supply shortage will not affect my living expense budget.
     
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  17. duggers_dad

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    I’m guessing the WHO is panicking, wondering whether they can replicate the fever pitch of ‘Covid.’
     
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  18. Trickster

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    The concern is we're not just an "animal", but, more specifically, mammals. Research on how viruses are transmitted between mammals is essential.
     
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  19. duggers_dad

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    Scientists simply don’t know how imaginary particles, which only purpose is to sicken and kill, move from one mammal to another. More billions are needed along with more mass-psychotic events.
     
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  20. vaxcardinal

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    so will this be a double or triple mask event?
     
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