The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the first case of bird flu (H5N1) in the U.S. without known contact with infected animals. A patient in Missouri was hospitalized but has since been discharged after successful treatment with antiviral medications.
Meanwhile, the New York Times takes the opportunity to gin up fear and push the “wet market COVID origin” theory in one astonishing article.In our last few reports on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza , otherwise known as ‘ bird flu ,’ ten Colorado poultry workers had developed symptoms of bird flu now says a patient in Missouri was hospitalized with bird flu despite having
This marks the 14th person to contract bird flu in the U.S. this year — and the first infection to occur without any reported exposure to sick or infected animals, the CDC alert stated.Dr. Benjamin Anderson, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Global Health at the University of Florida, said the fact that an individual has tested positive for H5 without any reported animal exposure is “very concerning,” but noted that very little is known about the case.
The good news in this case is that there has been no “bloom” of bird flu infections in the region, meaning sustainable human-to-human infection A leading theory suggests that the coronavirus pandemic began in a live animal market in Wuhan, China. If a similarly contagious virus were to evolve in a New York wet market, some experts fear there would be little to stop it from marching rapidly through the city. Tourists from all over the world might carry it back to their homes.
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