Bird Flu Outbreak: Do Human Cases Mean Future Lockdowns? (Newsweek was preparing public for inaugural lockdowns more than a month ago)

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-20 18:14:42 | Updated at 2024-12-20 22:10:56 4 hours ago

Bird Flu Outbreak: Do Human Cases Mean Future Lockdowns? (Newsweek was preparing public for inaugural lockdowns more than a month ago)
Newsweek ^ | Nov 15, 2024 at 6:48 AM EST | Tom Howarth

Posted on 12/20/2024 10:06:50 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

With bird flu cases continuing to rise across the U.S., and a teenager now in critical condition in Canada after contracting the virus, alarm bells are sounding over how big the outbreak could become.

So far in 2024, 46 people have become infected with the highly pathogenic H5 strain of bird flu, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. Some 25 of those infections have been associated with dairy cattle, 20 with poultry and one case in Missouri arose from an unknown source.

As for the teen in Canada, who was described as "healthy prior to this" during a press conference on Tuesday, the source of infection is also unknown. They had no exposure to farms, where the virus is most prevalent.

A recent outbreak on a pig farm in Oregon—the first of its kind in the U.S.—sparked further concerns, as pigs are well known for transmitting diseases to humans.

According to the CDC, the risk to the general public remains low, and no cases of human-to-human transmission have been reported so far.

But with each human infection, the virus gains another opportunity to mutate and learn to spread among the population in the process. According to experts, if human-to-human transmission were to occur, the impacts would be uncertain—but potentially pandemic-causing.

"Before COVID, flu has has been the cause of most of the recent recorded pandemics that we know," Jeremy Rossman, a senior lecturer in virology at the University of Kent in the U.K., told Newsweek.

Rossman explained that the risks of flu pandemics are, therefore, very high, but that bird flu presents a big unknown. Because the population hasn't been exposed...

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well Canada , Trudeau will try anything to stay in power

2 posted on 12/20/2024 10:10:41 AM PST by butlerweave

To: E. Pluribus Unum

a teenager now in critical condition in Canada

Sad. Trudeau and his soviet health system will ensure that he dies.

3 posted on 12/20/2024 10:11:16 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.")

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