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A new H5N1 bird flu variant has become "endemic in cows," with cases detected in Nevada and Arizona, raising concerns about human transmission.

Experts warn that without intervention, the outbreak will continue, but Trump has cut CDC staff and halted flu vaccination campaigns.

The virus's spread coincides with a severe flu season, increasing the risk of mutation.

The administration has also stopped sharing flu data with the WHO and shifted its containment strategy away from culling infected poultry, raising fears of inadequate response.

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[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 198 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Aw shit, here we go again.

Calling it now: we have another pandemic during Trump's current term.

Conspiracy theorists will go "isn't it weird there's always a pandemic while trump is president, must be the Democrats/Jews/Illuminati/"The Regime" controlling everything, Plandemic am a right?"

Couldn't possibly be Trump removing all safeguards against pandemics...

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I hope it will be called "Trump plague" or something this time around.

[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Trump Flu 2" to emphasize this is happening AGAIN

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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When it's in California, it's "God's wrath", when it's under Trump, it's "just a thing that happens, nothing to be done."

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And to the rest of the world, it will be the "Trump Pandemic".

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Can this be passed through milk? Maybe the Fascism problem will solve itself if Bobby Brainworm convinces all the fascists to drink more raw milk ...

[–] Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are cases of a couple dairy workers getting mild cases of bird flu from getting raw milk splashed in their eye while working, so yes it's not terribly unlikely.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

And cats dying of it after drinking raw milk and eating raw food products.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Government told people to never drink raw milk. The sale and consumption of raw milk went up in ivermectin loving circles. It's weird reverse psychology with raw milk.

[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It'd be fine if they were just endangering themselves, but the most likely way we get a more virulent bird flu strain is one of these idiots catching in while they also have the regular flu

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

And then refusing to isolate or wear a mask. While being unvaccinated.

They're basically dirty people.

I wouldn't be surprised if they started refusing to ever wash their hands.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It reminds me a lot of the Herman Cain Awards.

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[–] Podunk@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Dairy farmer here, who fought this crap off when we still didnt know what it was.

Bird flu contaminated raw milk in cats, yeah it will kill the shit out of them. Its what helped us figure out what it was in the first place. Nothing confirmed so far as humans being infected from consumption that i am aware of currently, but i personally wouldnt try it.

The dairy workers that got bird flu. It was pinkeye that popped positive for h5. Probably splashback from either milk or fecal. It wasnt really a big deal other than conjunctivitis sucks.

But if you drink raw milk, you are playing russian roulette as patient zero at this point. Dont do it.

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[–] StillFromTheBlock@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Also was just found to be infecting rats for the first time ever documented.

[–] robbinhood@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Meanwhile, in Michigan, there's a case of two exclusively indoor cats catching it. One prominent theory is that the humans in the household passed it to them.

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago
[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

The price of beef is about to go the way of the price of eggs.

Down, right?

Down, right?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See, if you bury your head in the sand, the virus can't get you

[–] robbinhood@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well, ya know, it's primarily a respiratory disease among humans. You literally aren't likely to catch if if your head is buried in sand. And once you suffocate or whatever, you won't have to worry about the flu.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is the kind of outside the box thinking that makes this nation great.

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[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just do this:

  • stop testing,
  • stick a lightbulb up their rear
  • put some horse paste in their feed
  • disinfectant in their water
  • ???
  • Profit
[–] Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I’m back on the carnivore diet because it’s been really the only thing to help with my long-covid that has been on my ass ever since the pandemic started.

And now this is going to make that harder.

The same guy I hold responsible for my long-covid is going to get me fucked up yet again. How’s that for irony?

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can you do fish or pork? Those two don't seem to be effected

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Surely some rich republican ranchers can get Trump's attention...

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

People confusing this with COVID might be in for a surprise because if this becomes a human pandemic it will likely be much worse.

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[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Maybe it will get people to start drinking plant based milk if the price of course milk skyrockets like it has with eggs. All the IGF-1 in dairy isn't good for you and could even be part of the reason for the rise in colorectal cancer (the amount of dairy we consume nowadays in nuts).

[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I usually have a little milk around the house for cooking sauces and things. Something like soy or almond milk don't make good substitutes. I can't remember the last time I just drank a glass of milk.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I haven't had cows milk in years. Somehow all my sauces and things are still turning out delicious! Lots of plant milk is flavored or sweetened. Buying regular/unsweetened almond or oat milk will work for most cases. I am extremely partial to oat milk and I would honestly drink a glass of it

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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

After fucking it up on a global pandemic there were people attacking the Capitol to defend him. He's just trying to repeat that achievement.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is seriously the dumbest and probably most preventable timeline. Well, except for all the goddamn idiots and apathetic people in the country.

Sigh.

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bird flu for the meats, tariffs for everything else (and probably affecting meats as well). I wonder how this will affect our food supply during Great Depression II compared to the dust bowl and tariffs in the first one.

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[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

Up next repealing regulations preventing farmers from selling downer cows. Can't afford not to sell infected meat. Grocery prices are already too high. What could go wrong?

[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe Idiocracy won't happen. The stupid ones should wipe themselves out in a pandemic. We just need to wait for the right one.

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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (42 children)

How about we... i dunno... not farm animals? It's bad for health, it's bad for the animals, it's bad for the environment. Every pandemic we've ever had has been caused by animal ag. That's COVID, SARS, MERS, AIDS, etc.

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