H5N1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Texas allows the sale and state-wide distribution of raw milk. They also explicitly do not require farmers to keep lists of their raw milk customers.

Has raw milk ever been a vector for the flu?

[Anonymous]

If we're lucky, this one will finish the job on the boomers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Texas allows the sale and state-wide distribution of raw milk. They also explicitly do not require farmers to keep lists of their raw milk customers.

Has raw milk ever been a vector for the flu?

I’m assuming that milk from a cow infected with H5N1 looks and smells different from a non-infected cow. A responsible raw milk dairy farmer also does not have the same crowded conditions as the huge dairy farms.

[Anonymous]

Don't we literally have the capability to quickly and easily make vaccines for the flu? Like, don't we do it every single year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Texas allows the sale and state-wide distribution of raw milk. They also explicitly do not require farmers to keep lists of their raw milk customers.

Has raw milk ever been a vector for the flu?

I’m assuming that milk from a cow infected with H5N1 looks and smells different from a non-infected cow. A responsible raw milk dairy farmer also does not have the same crowded conditions as the huge dairy farms.

Why in the world would you assume this?

[Anonymous]

What happened to MonkeyPox?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happened to MonkeyPox?

It wasn't that contagious because it wasn't airborne. There was also a vaccine for it right away that was distributed to the most at-risk people/community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Texas allows the sale and state-wide distribution of raw milk. They also explicitly do not require farmers to keep lists of their raw milk customers.

Has raw milk ever been a vector for the flu?

I’m assuming that milk from a cow infected with H5N1 looks and smells different from a non-infected cow. A responsible raw milk dairy farmer also does not have the same crowded conditions as the huge dairy farms.

Why in the world would you assume this?

It was a smart assumption. Still, don't drink raw milk or eat raw cheese.

Cattle impacted by HPAI exhibit flu-like symptoms including fever and thick and discolored milk accompanied by a sharp reduction in milk production averaging between 10-30 pounds per cow throughout the herd.

https://www.texasagriculture.gov/News-Events/Article/9950/COMMISSIONER-MILLER-SAYS-MYSTERY-DAIRY-COW-DISEASE-HAS-BEEN-IDENTIFIED

H5N1 seems to be quite widespread. Cook your food well, wash your hands.

The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been detected at a poultry facility in Michigan.

Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at a facility in Parmer County, Texas.

https://apnews.com/article/bird-flu-texas-mississippi-chickens-dbae49f8786dda586036c1b86b9d0997

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Texas allows the sale and state-wide distribution of raw milk. They also explicitly do not require farmers to keep lists of their raw milk customers.

Has raw milk ever been a vector for the flu?

I’m assuming that milk from a cow infected with H5N1 looks and smells different from a non-infected cow. A responsible raw milk dairy farmer also does not have the same crowded conditions as the huge dairy farms.

Why in the world would you assume this?

It was a smart assumption. Still, don't drink raw milk or eat raw cheese.

Cattle impacted by HPAI exhibit flu-like symptoms including fever and thick and discolored milk accompanied by a sharp reduction in milk production averaging between 10-30 pounds per cow throughout the herd.

https://www.texasagriculture.gov/News-Events/Article/9950/COMMISSIONER-MILLER-SAYS-MYSTERY-DAIRY-COW-DISEASE-HAS-BEEN-IDENTIFIED

H5N1 seems to be quite widespread. Cook your food well, wash your hands.

The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been detected at a poultry facility in Michigan.

Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at a facility in Parmer County, Texas.

https://apnews.com/article/bird-flu-texas-mississippi-chickens-dbae49f8786dda586036c1b86b9d0997

Is the flu spread via food?

[Anonymous]

Milk is pasteurized and you have to cook chicken well anyway to avoid salmonella.

[Anonymous]

Here is where I will start worrying:

If there are multiple, simultaneous reports of human infections with H5N1 following exposure to birds or other animals, or identification of spread from one infected person to another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is where I will start worrying:

If there are multiple, simultaneous reports of human infections with H5N1 following exposure to birds or other animals, or identification of spread from one infected person to another.

No, not until someone younger than 60 dies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is where I will start worrying:

If there are multiple, simultaneous reports of human infections with H5N1 following exposure to birds or other animals, or identification of spread from one infected person to another.

No, not until someone younger than 60 dies.

Are we really doing this eugenicist BS again? Gross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is where I will start worrying:

If there are multiple, simultaneous reports of human infections with H5N1 following exposure to birds or other animals, or identification of spread from one infected person to another.

No, not until someone younger than 60 dies.

Are we really doing this eugenicist BS again? Gross

You don't seem to understand what eugenics means. Unless you're an advocate for people in their 60s reproducing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is where I will start worrying:

If there are multiple, simultaneous reports of human infections with H5N1 following exposure to birds or other animals, or identification of spread from one infected person to another.

No, not until someone younger than 60 dies.

Are we really doing this eugenicist BS again? Gross

DP. I think this is poorly phrased but the point is, if you're under 60, you probably don't PERSONALLY need to worry about H5N1 unless it seems to be killing people outside the groups who we already know are more vulnerable to the flu.