Comment on Lack of bird flu testing may be hiding true spread of virus on US farms

• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While this is certainly a possibility, and we should be prepared for it,

  This is mostly what I was going for:-). But yeah, you bring up a good perspective: companies aren’t known for paying for things that are not needed, and since the milk is safe after pasteurization…

  In my other comment in this thread (I have no idea how to properly make links to comments, without kicking you off your instance to view it), I quoted a linked article describing how the fatality rate was extremely high, as in literally over half - though I did not dig further to see e.g. how many were immunocompromised to begin with.

  Thank you for sharing the detail that they all were caught directly from animals. That makes sense:-).

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The mortality rate is high, but the sample is also heavily skewed toward low income, rural farming populations in developing countries like Indonesia, Egypt, and Cambodia. Survival rates among the few cases in the US and Europe have been 100%, with one death in Canada

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    • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you for the helpful additions there.

      Knowing that it’s already been possible for the virus to make the jump, and that there is an upswing of the virus overall, does make it seem quite likely that it will make another jump again soon.

      Is there a reason you think it unlikely that once it does so, it will just immediately stop there and not undergo human-to-human transmission?

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      • protist@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because it’s been transmitted to humans over a thousands times over the past 20 years, and this upswing isn’t particularly worse than previous outbreaks, it’s just in the news more because it’s happening in the US. There have been massive avian flu outbreaks before in other countries

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