[HN Gopher] CDC confirms first severe human case of bird flu in ...
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CDC confirms first severe human case of bird flu in U.S.
Author : perihelions
Score : 67 points
Date : 2024-12-18 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.washingtonpost.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.washingtonpost.com)
| nitred wrote:
| Could an expert in the field provide an overview of what is known
| for sure so far about this incident and one from a month or so
| ago?
| krunck wrote:
| https://archive.is/oeua0
| cogman10 wrote:
| CDC press release
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| https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/m1218-h5n1-flu.html
| tedunangst wrote:
| Why does the article devote so many paragraphs to bird flu in
| cows when the patient contracted it from birds and it's not the
| strain prevalent in dairy herds?
| Polizeiposaune wrote:
| My understanding is that much of the H5N1 bird flu detected in
| north america before this event was detected in cows and in
| people with exposure to cows. So if you want to provide
| background on H5N1 in america you end up talking about cows.
|
| See, for instance, https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-
| summary/mammals.html
| bee_rider wrote:
| Did they edit it or something? The version I see has only one
| paragraph about cows. And it is only there to explain that it
| isn't the version going around in cows (But I did have to use
| the archive link shared here--normally I don't like those, but
| curiosity about a potential public health issue overrode my
| principles).
| tedunangst wrote:
| The archive version seems to be missing several paragraphs
| like
|
| > But the virus is changing, said John Connor, an associate
| professor of microbiology at Boston University. "It is
| essentially going to the gym all the time and training to be
| better," Connor said at a webinar on H5N1 this week hosted by
| hosted by Boston University's Center on Emerging Infectious
| Diseases. "The virus is not just getting into birds, now it's
| getting into cows. There's evidence that it's getting into
| other animals, cats, dogs, mink," he said. "Now what we are
| seeing is that this is a virus that used to be only good at
| breaking and entering into bird cells and causing disease
| there and transmitting there, now its getting better at
| breaking and entering into a bunch of other cells."
| jacobgkau wrote:
| Thanks for giving an example. It looks like someone added
| an additional snapshot on the archive site which now
| includes that paragraph. Just have to click "next" to see
| the next snapshot.
| throwup238 wrote:
| There are two big news items about H5N1 and this article talks
| about both of them. The CDC announced the first severe case in
| Louisiana _and_ California declared a state of emergency
| because of bird flu detected in cows (which is mostly just a
| bureaucratic formality to release funds and enable agencies to
| cooperate with less red tape).
| charliebwrites wrote:
| Why can't agencies always have easier access to funds and
| cooperate with less red tape?
|
| Seems more...efficient?
| DrillShopper wrote:
| Republicans exist and they want that money to go to tax
| breaks for their wealthy donors.
| to11mtm wrote:
| Wait so the guy who had bleeding eyes wasn't severe?
|
| Edit: Read the article, this headline is semi-clickbait.
|
| Article indicates this is the first severe case related to a
| 'backyard' (i.e. smaller farm or self-farmer range of size) farm.
|
| Sooooo nothing that new aside from the bit that bird flu is still
| around TBH.
|
| It's not surprising in it's own way, we are somewhere in a
| migratory season so these things will move around a bit more.
|
| Not saying Bird flu doesn't concern me a lot, I'm just frustrated
| by the 'oh this isn't new except the person got it from their
| backyard coop rather than some more industrial-ish farm'.
|
| Edit to Edit:
|
| Ok, I guess this is the first 'technically' severe case. Not sure
| what the details are but at TBH I'm not a doctor so...
| tptacek wrote:
| No. The "bleeding eyes" were just busted capillaries. It's a
| super common symptom you can get just from sneezing too hard+;
| it's happened to me --- the specific "bleeding" symptom that
| patient had --- a bunch of times.
|
| + _I 'm not saying that's what happened to him, just that it's
| not some freaky rare "crying blood" thing._
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