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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago
[–] hark 5 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] NatakuNox 41 points 16 hours ago
[–] friend_of_satan 17 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 156 points 21 hours 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...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 16 hours ago (1 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 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] CitizenKong 56 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 17 hours ago

"Trump Flu 2" to emphasize this is happening AGAIN

[–] P1nkman 29 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago (2 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?

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree 5 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Eat fish like the Japanese do. They live the longest for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Bad idea. We're at a point now where an all fish diet would actually poison you. We've dumped so much shit into the water that tends to bioaccumulate, and since big fish tend to eat smaller ones...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

The Okinawans, in particular, are known for their longevity. Their traditional diet is largely vegetarian.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/okinawa-diet#the-diet

The traditional Okinawa diet is low in calories and fat while high in carbs. It emphasizes vegetables and soy products alongside occasional — and small — amounts of noodles, rice, pork, and fish.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

counter argument: taco rice and spam isn't actually healthy, but lying about obachan being dead so you can keep pocketing her pension means you can buy more chu-hai.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/530073/scientist-snares-ig-noble-gong-for-work-debunking-blue-zones

[–] Serinus 2 points 10 hours ago

I've read that the healthiest amount of meat is around one serving a week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

For sure! In before the bird flu spreads to fish somehow…

[–] SupraMario 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yep! But I add ghee to the fish because it’s too lean.

My complaint is mostly due to the threat of dwindling variety. And beef is my favorite.

[–] SupraMario 1 points 9 hours ago

Ah, find a local farmer, buy a full cows cut asap before the price spikes, toss the 500lbs of beef in a deep freezer. Bam profit?

[–] dhork 69 points 21 hours ago (5 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 ...

[–] Podunk 11 points 10 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Yes it can be and the problem is these idiots are also gonna give that milk to their children. Who don’t deserve to suffer for the sins of their parents.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 20 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] SlopppyEngineer 33 points 21 hours ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What's next? Surely these people wouldn't be dumb enough to drink bleach.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yeah, let alone inject it, or try to cure disease with a lightbulb suppository! I'm so glad americans are all rational people, and there's not a significant voting bloc of willfully misinformed dingbats ready to slurp down whatever obvious idiotic lie gets shat out in their general direction by their orange fuhrer!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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 5 points 10 hours 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.

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[–] YarHarSuperstar 7 points 17 hours ago

It seems so. I've been buying ultra-pasteurized which may be sufficient.

[–] StillFromTheBlock 59 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] robbinhood 26 points 20 hours ago (3 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.

[–] theangryseal 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Think about how many cats aren’t being reported.

Like, if my cat drops dead I’m just burying her. No one would ever know.

If the 5 strays that hang outside my apartment died of it I’d just bury them too. No one would have a clue.

[–] robbinhood 5 points 11 hours ago

Great point, and H5N1 can kill cats within like 24 hours (not sure if that's exposure or first symptoms). So, you're not paying close attention to your cat for even just a matter of hours, it dies, you don't know why, and just bury it.

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[–] MapleEngineer 46 points 22 hours ago

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

Down, right?

Down, right?

[–] 9point6 42 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] robbinhood 14 points 20 hours ago (1 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 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Serinus 1 points 10 hours ago

Well, inside the sand thinking.

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[–] vegeta 31 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Just do this:

  • stop testing,
  • stick a lightbulb up their rear
  • put some horse paste in their feed
  • disinfectant in their water
  • ???
  • Profit
[–] ansiz 16 points 20 hours ago (18 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).

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