Scientists are beginning to claim that the risk of the bird flu outbreak currently circulating in dairy cattle transferring to humans is rising. The virus is allegedly adapting to new hosts, which contributes to the rising risk that the H5N1 avian influenza virus could spark a human pandemic.
Although many of the infections in human beings have been mild, emerging data indicate that variants of the avian influenza virus H5N1 that are spreading in North America can cause severe disease and death, especially when passed directly to humans from birds. This means that the chances that this becomes a human pandemic continue to rise.
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According to a report by Nature, at least 68 people in North America have become ill from the pathogen, and one person has died.
“The risk has increased as we’ve gone on — especially in the last couple of months, with the report of [some] severe infections,” says Seema Lakdawala, an influenza virologist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.
While this particular outbreak is following along the same lines as the COVID-19 scamdemic, it is a much slower rollout. There seems to be little interest in pushing the “mass testing” and “mass surveillance” model that many medical authoritarians used during the coronavirus scare.
Right now, there are two main variants of the H5N1 virus that scientists and experts say they are following closely. The first one is called B3.13 and is spreading mainly in cows; the other, called D1.1, is found mostly in wild and domesticated birds, including chickens raised for poultry.
Right now, dairy workers appear to be the most susceptible to a bird flu infection.
Dairy workers are vulnerable to infection because, during the milking process, they can inhale airborne milk particles, and milk droplets can splash into their eyes. Some data suggest that if the virus enters the lungs directly, it could cause a severe infection. In a study published in Nature on January 15th, a research group including Heinz Feldmann, head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ virology laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, infected cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis) with B3.13 virus. –Nature
In a separate article from September of 2024, Nature claimed that “gaps” in data are preventing scientists and health experts from knowing if the bird flu is spreading amongst human beings.
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