“The report marks the 15th human case of an H5-type bird flu infection in the country since 2022. But, the case stands out—and is quickly generating alarm online—because the man reported no contact with animals. All 14 of the previous cases occurred in farmworkers who had contact with either dairy cows or poultry that were known to be infected with H5N1.”
I don’t think they’re necessarily saying it was spontaneous bird flu, it’s much easier to determine the animal(s) that gave a farm worker avian flu than testing every animal/person who interacted with someone.
Probably means it’s spreading in the community over there from human to human contact. Not good to say the least. I’d say stock up on toilet paper lol.
The article I read mentioned this person has co-morbidities. Presumably, that’s why their symptoms are worse/they even got tested. Perhaps this means that it only weakly infects humans (currently, anyway). Hence the lack of prior detection.
I’m sure we’ll start to see more community cases. Hopefully that won’t translate to the virus mutating further in ways that make it more infectious or harmful.
“The report marks the 15th human case of an H5-type bird flu infection in the country since 2022. But, the case stands out—and is quickly generating alarm online—because the man reported no contact with animals. All 14 of the previous cases occurred in farmworkers who had contact with either dairy cows or poultry that were known to be infected with H5N1.”
I don’t think they’re necessarily saying it was spontaneous bird flu, it’s much easier to determine the animal(s) that gave a farm worker avian flu than testing every animal/person who interacted with someone.
Probably means it’s spreading in the community over there from human to human contact. Not good to say the least. I’d say stock up on toilet paper lol.
The article I read mentioned this person has co-morbidities. Presumably, that’s why their symptoms are worse/they even got tested. Perhaps this means that it only weakly infects humans (currently, anyway). Hence the lack of prior detection.
I’m sure we’ll start to see more community cases. Hopefully that won’t translate to the virus mutating further in ways that make it more infectious or harmful.