“America’s Bird-Flu Luck Has Officially Run Out”
By Yasmin Tayag
“The case in Louisiana reveals little new information about the virus: H5N1 has always had the capacity to make individuals very sick. The more birds, cows, and other animals exposed people to the virus, and the more people got sick, the greater the chance that one of those cases would look like this. That an infected teenager in British Columbia was hospitalized with respiratory distress last month only emphasized that not every human case would be mild. Now here we are, with a severe case in the United States a little over a month later.”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/12/america-bird-flu-severe-case/681115/
“How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu?”
By Dani Blum
“There isn’t any evidence so far that the virus can spread between humans. Every time the virus infects another person or animal, however, it has an opportunity to mutate, and scientists are closely watching whether the virus will gain mutations that make it more easily able to spread from human to human.
“I’ve been sleeping with one eye open about this virus for many years,” Dr. Osterholm said. It’s important to track the virus and be prepared for the possibility that it could spread between humans, he said.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/well/bird-flu-health-risks.html
“What to Know About Bird Flu in the U.S. After CDC Announces First ‘Severe’ Human Case”
By Chad de Guzman and Rebecca Schneid
“….it is also important to get the seasonal human influenza vaccine. They say if there were to be a case of a person with simultaneous bird flu and human flu infection, it could lead to a “reassortment” and thus a virus that could be more easily spread”
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https://time.com/7203290/bird-flu-united-states-severe-case-h5n1-explainer/
“Avian Flu Has Hit Dairies So Hard That They’re Calling It ‘Covid for Cows’”
By Soumya KarlamanglaOrlando Mayorquín and Jesus Jiménez
“A fast-growing outbreak of avian flu has upended California’s dairy industry, the nation’s largest producer of milk, infecting most of the state’s herds and putting thousands of farmworkers at risk for contracting the virus.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/us/bird-flu-california-covid-cows.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare#:~:text=Avian%20Flu%20Has,contracting%20the%20virus.
First human case of bird flu found in Wisconsin
By Corey Moen
https://www.channel3000.com/news/first-human-case-of-bird-flu-found-in-wisconsin/article_59e56bc6-bd7b-11ef-bee6-3b528b191b81.html
At least 1 human case of bird flu reported in Texas in latest US outbreak, CDC says
By Marley Malenfant
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2024/12/19/bird-flu-texas-2024-cases-deadly-severe-symptoms/77083509007/