Is bird flu spreading between people? | New Scientist Weekly 278

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  • @JerbPa
    @JerbPa 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    Wait, are they totally not aware of the teenager up in BC with H5N1 where they’ve sequenced the strain and preliminarily found it to have the two specific mutations required to transmit easily from human to human??

  • @Technoriety
    @Technoriety 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    🐘 There's an elephant in the room ⬅️
    Is it forbidden for New Scientist journalists to question whether we should continue with animal agriculture (the cause of H5N1 bird flu)? Considering the likely result: A global pandemic. Add to that the other catastrophic effects of animal agriculture: climate change (land clearing and methane emissions) and the ill effects to humans of an animal diet (heart disease, raised cancer levels). It's not good, but somehow the cause of all this can't be spoken?

  • @wendyash6915
    @wendyash6915 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wondering about transmission via bird excrement; i.e. on a park bench for example.

  • @percheroneclipse238
    @percheroneclipse238 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    CA child drank raw milk, which is popular now in the USA.

  • @James-ke5sx
    @James-ke5sx 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Texas veterinarian Dr Barbara Peterson first reported bird flu in cows back in March 2024. She takes care of 40,000 cattle in her area. She started receiving calls of sick animals from multiple Farms. Back then she said almost every Farm she visited with sick cows she also saw sick workers. They had flu-like symptoms, pink eyes and she said workers who were never sick or miss work we're now sick at home for the first time. You can Google it.

    • @nataliegist2014
      @nataliegist2014 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I would look into Methylene blue as a preventative and a cure for people and animals not in cats.

  • @James-ke5sx
    @James-ke5sx 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I think we better start reading books on real nuclear war.

  • @C_ALEB
    @C_ALEB 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    No it isn’t. Literally zero proof for such a bold claim.

    • @JerbPa
      @JerbPa 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@C_ALEB What are you even talking about? They’ve sequenced the strain he has. Number one, they’ve confirmed it to be H5N1. Number two, it looks so far to have the two mutations scientists previously identified as the ones required to transmit easily from human to human.
      They need to do more testing to 100% confirm the mutations but, yes indeed, those are the facts that we have right now.

    • @JerbPa
      @JerbPa 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@C_ALEB You’re welcome to believe that. The evidence does not support you, though.

    • @C_ALEB
      @C_ALEB 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @ There is quite literally zero evidence of human transmission taking place so I would love to know what evidence that doesn’t exist you’re referring to.

    • @C_ALEB
      @C_ALEB 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @ what are YOU even talking about? None of that supports human transmission taking place in the slightest.

    • @JerbPa
      @JerbPa 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@C_ALEB Are you an idiot? Human to human transmission doesn’t take place in a vacuum. All the factors have to come together. And the point you are refusing to accept is that it now looks like we may have evidence of those factors coming together.
      Stop being so outraged and ridiculous and read what I wrote. I never said human to human transmission was talking place, you colossal moron. I said that there was a case of a child in BC where they sequenced a strand of the virus he has. That sequencing looks as though the mutations *required as precursor* to human to human transmission have taken place. Those are the facts as we know them now.