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Second US dairy worker infected with bird flu confirmed in Michigan (www.reuters.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/news

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A second human case of bird flu has been confirmed in the United States since the virus was first detected in dairy cattle in late March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

The infection of a dairy worker in Michigan expands the outbreak of the bird flu, though the CDC said the risk to the general public remains low.

The CDC told reporters on a call that it has not seen evidence of human to human transmission of bird flu and that it has tested close to 40 people since March, including the Michigan worker.

Michigan and Texas are among nine states that have reported bird flu in dairy herds since late March. Scientists have said they believe the outbreak is more widespread based on U.S. Food and Drug Administration findings of H5N1 particles in about 20% of retail milk samples.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago

Hey, I've seen this one before

[–] kromem 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is going to be fine.

We have plenty of experience at this point handing a pandemic.

People will just be responsible with masking and isolating to limit the spread while waiting to be first in line for a vaccine when it's...

😂 Sorry, I just couldn't keep it going straight. It was nice knowing you all. 🤣

[–] Coldgoron 27 points 6 months ago

[–] someguy3 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fuuuuccckkkkk.

[–] Goodie 21 points 6 months ago

The CDC told reporters on a call that it has not seen evidence of human to human transmission of bird flu and that it has tested close to 40 people since March, including the Michigan worker.

If, and only if, we see human to human transmission, then we sorry. Not before.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Third US dairy worker infected with bird flu confirmed in Michigan

Fourth US dairy worker infected with bird flu confirmed in Michigan

Seventy-eighth US dairy worker infected with bird flu confirmed in Michigan

Officials baffled, wondering why cases could possibly be spreading

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's time to end animal agriculture 🤷

[–] voracitude 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Good luck with that. The largest economy in the world can't even stop putting literal poison in the food. Where's the will going to come from?

It's going to take nothing less than a wholesale collapse, and even then most of these chucklefucks - the ones left, anyway - will be looking to get back to the way things were at any cost.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but the more people who recognize that animal agriculture needs to end and then act accordingly, the better. Same with any other justice movement: see the problem, take action to solve it.

[+] ghostdoggtv -14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's going to come from people learning that unnecessary animal consumption makes us sick. Some people are/will be slower than others.

[–] voracitude 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's going to come from people learning

I'm sorry, I don't know quite how to tell you this, but uh...

[–] ghostdoggtv 1 points 6 months ago

Keep going, I know

[–] Nurse_Robot 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm an omnivore who respects and has some desire to be a vegetarian. You're making vegetarianism look bad.

[+] ghostdoggtv -7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Would you have preferred it if I called them late instead of slow? Frankly I don't care for your judgment either way, I've been a committed vegan for 5 years and I don't really believe you either respect the movement or desire to be vegetarian, let alone are being turned off making the right choice for yourself because of how I make it look. It's not an aesthetic.

[–] newthrowaway20 5 points 6 months ago

Oh look, a vegan telling everyone else they're wrong. Never seen that before.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

You don't get people to sympathise with you and your cause by insulting them.

[–] Nurse_Robot 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fuck, you're insufferable. I'm assuming you're just a troll.

[+] ghostdoggtv -7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What have I done or said to make you think that?

[–] Nurse_Robot 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Downvoting the guy who said "you don't get people to agree with you by insulting them". Also, insulting me when I said I supported vegetarianism. Also calling the majority of humanity "slow", while willfully ignoring that not everyone has the blessing to be able to afford everything they think is most ethical, nor the blessing to have the education to desire alternatives to meat.

You're just an asshole, and you justify it by preaching about how long you've been a vegan. I gave you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you were a troll, but you're worse. You're an arrogant narcissist who can't handle criticism.

[–] flicker 6 points 6 months ago

I agree they're an asshole. But I do want to say I've been vegan off and on for... Jesus 17 years. Anyway, there's this thing I noticed in some members of the community (not that guy) where their experience is so insular that they think everyone in the world knew 20 years ago that factory farming was environmentally disastrous but they just ignored it.

So they're so burnt out on it that they become these crazy screaming judgey assholes. Then, add to that, that there really are the most remarkably assholish omnivores at almost every social event involving food. I was 22, and I got cornered at a work pot luck when a man found out I was vegan (I never ever mentioned it, I brought food! But someone finally dragged it out of me when I had to explain I couldn't try their fried chicken) and he spent forteen minutes lecturing me on how not eating meat was an "insult to God" and how he'd eat twice as many animals because I was there.

...I was young and used to be too polite to get away from assholes like that. I'm better now.

My point here is, spending years and years of that makes you angry and bitter if you let it, especially if you're a self-important jackass with a savior complex.

[–] ghostdoggtv -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I haven't downvoted anybody. I'm trying to be frank here. I didn't mean to insult you, I'm just tired of walking on eggshells about the issue for the sake of people who talk to me the way you do. You're mad because I rejected your judgment of me. Wow, what an asshole I am.

[–] Nurse_Robot 1 points 6 months ago

I'm not mad, but I am confident that you're a narcissist. It's a bad look.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I believe that animal agriculture is going to end us before I believe that we are going to end animal agriculture.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Probably 😔😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So how do you propose people get the b12 they need? Cover every meal in marmite, eat algae, or mass produce b12 supplements? Most foods that have high concentrations of B12 come from either dairy products or eggs.

[–] APassenger 7 points 6 months ago

Monster energy drinks?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those animals are usually supplemented, just cut the middleman. Nutritional yeast is another good source of it

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I already mentioned yeast, that’s what marmite is. Unless you mean just eating yeast directly? I don’t know about cows because I haven’t worked with them but I have worked with chickens which aren’t given b12 supplements and yet eggs still provide plenty of b12

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Nutritional yeast is a great seasoning for food, it tastes good and is nutritional. And yeah, all the options you listed are better than animal agriculture

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's great on popcorn