Erm… bird flu?

Yeah buddy, they tend to do that.

Anyway, who is excited for some new unprecedented times?

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  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    1428 days ago

    just because contact can’t be confirmed since he’s not a farmworker or anything. But if he’s living around farmland there can of course still be contact

    can’t you get exposed just from bird shit? i doubt contact with strictly ‘agricultural’ animals is necessary. the super bewildering portion of the story is the patient was on bed-rest for 3 weeks. that strongly implies they weren’t exposed to normal environmental vectors, but i don’t know how confidently they could rule out the patient having gotten it before being bedridden.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      2028 days ago

      Looking forward to the breathless Westoid articles about the Chinese pigeons conscripted to shit in people’s mouths all over the world to spread their sinister bioweapon.

    • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]
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      1428 days ago

      yeah I remember reading it can be spread just through bird shit, which is honestly horrifying. I have bird shit on my car right now and I’m scared to touch it. But yeah I think you’re right, contact with birds is enough to spread it.