The Texas Department of State Health Services said that the patient became ill following contact with dairy cows presumed to be infected with bird flu.
It’s important to recognize this virus is not new and has been circulating the world while being studied for years. Over the past 20 years, less than 900 cases have been identified in humans worldwide, mostly in southeast Asia, and with rare exception it was someone who caught it from an animal but who didn’t transmit it to other humans.
While there’s always a chance H5N1 could mutate to become more transmissible between humans, right now there’s no reason to think that. If it did, god help us. But it hasn’t. Yet.
The scary part is that it has been spreading between mammals though, most instances have been between sea mammals like seals but now it looks like it’s spreading between other mammals too
I did read that…it looks like it killed a bunch of seals, but cows seem to barely be affected. Well I hope they’re including this strain in this year’s flu vaccine …
It’s important to recognize this virus is not new and has been circulating the world while being studied for years. Over the past 20 years, less than 900 cases have been identified in humans worldwide, mostly in southeast Asia, and with rare exception it was someone who caught it from an animal but who didn’t transmit it to other humans.
While there’s always a chance H5N1 could mutate to become more transmissible between humans, right now there’s no reason to think that. If it did, god help us. But it hasn’t. Yet.
The scary part is that it has been spreading between mammals though, most instances have been between sea mammals like seals but now it looks like it’s spreading between other mammals too
I did read that…it looks like it killed a bunch of seals, but cows seem to barely be affected. Well I hope they’re including this strain in this year’s flu vaccine …
Good thing is that mrna should work on it too. That’s one good thing that came out of covid.