Expect to hear A LOT more about this.......
'Unprecedented': How bird flu became an animal pandemic (bbc.com)
Weigh on in, Katya.......
Ugh. This has been a growing specter for years. Nearly a decade before Covid, universities were being prepped for distance learning and dealing with an epidemic of avian flu.
It's curious that the virus is showing up in unpasteurized milk. My father, a quirky conspiracy theorist, would drink only raw milk because "the pasteurization process had unknown but potentially lethal effects." (That being said, he smoked two packs a day to the very end when cancer took him.)
We can keep hoping that the virus never mutates enough to be passed among humans. If that mutation occurs, it's good to know that we have a heavy toolbox: bleach injections, internal irradiation with bright light, and antiparasitic drugs.
Hope I'm wrong, but it just seems 'reasonable'(?) to think that the zoonotic leap from cows (and/or pigs, cats, dogs, etc.) to humans is much less of a chasm than from birds to cows. "It's the entropy, man."
Well..............that didn't take long........
Bird flu outbreak in humans suspected on Texas farm (msn.com)
......And we may be juuuust getting started.
Be sure to get your contract set up with Big Pharma. We definitely want in on the ground floor.