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Person is diagnosed with bird flu after being in contact with cows in Texas

apnews.com Person is diagnosed with bird flu after being in contact with cows in Texas

The patient was being treated with an antiviral drug and their only reported symptom was eye redness, Texas health officials said.

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Don't mess with Texas, also don't visit Texas or eat anything Texas produces.
- Don't mess with Texas. Don't mess with anything Texas produces. Don't mess with things that have messed with Texas. Avoid Texas at all costs.
  
  Texas has been seized by the SCP foundation.
  
  Texas secession when?
- Don't mess with animals. This is not a Texas problem, outbreaks have been all over the world and the animal agriculture is the perfect breeding ground. The only question is where will it develop the human to human infection feature. When it happens you can only blame others if your state or country has no animal agriculture as it could happen anywhere.
  
  I didn’t realise bird flu wasn’t transmitted between humans already tbh. I caught Swine flu (H1N1) from another human a decade or so ago.
- Good thing there's nothing astronomical happening in Texas next week that only happens once every decade or so in the US, which people might flock to Texas to stand in crowds to see before dispersing back home across the Southern US. 😅
  
  The eclipse is happening in more places than Texas.
There are some dumb responses in this thread. Lots of misplaced vitriol at Texas and farmers.

You want to have people report this stuff? Don't act like dickheads when they do.

Stuff like this happens from time to time in agriculture. UK has issues with TB in dairy cows which requires them to cull herds. It's really shitty and unfortunate but this type of thing has happened for millenia.

It's better that they report it so we can address it and find ways to prevent it happening in the future.

And unless everyone is willing to go 100% vegan tomorrow, we need farmers, livestock, and the like to keep our meat and dairy supply flowing.

Edit:

I also want to point out that it doesn't seem like.they definitively determined it came from the cows but that he was "link" and "exposed" to infected cows.

"Genetic tests don’t suggest that the virus suddenly is spreading more easily or that it is causing more severe illness, Shah said. And current antiviral medications still seem to work, he added."

So this guy could have gotten it from the same bird the cows got it from as well. A dozen other people were tested and none came back positive.

All other cases we've seen have come from bird contact. So there is a reasonable chance this guy got it from an infected bird without realizing it.

Also, none of the cows have died (dunno if that's a good thing or bad thing).
- And unless everyone is willing to go 100% vegan tomorrow
  
  we do it until we get a new pandemic
  
  we wait until climate change, 3°C from food production, destroys enough crops that agriculture collapses
  
  we eat more of it to die sooner so we don't have to face the consequences of our actions.
  
  And no, I don't belive 100% tommorow is the only way to avoid that, that was your wording. But it has to and will change.
- And unless everyone is willing to go 100% vegan tomorrow, we need farmers
  
  Safe to say vegans also need farmers. We just don’t need animal agriculture.
  
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It's only got a 56% fatality rate, some of you will die but the economy must have it's workers pronto. I expect the COVID playbook will be used again, tell you it's droplets when it's airborne, push the vaccine as the solution and shove you back to work.
- Buy toilet paper.
  
  Yeah that's a good point actually how was that never a conspiracy theory? It's the most obvious one.
  
  Covid was made up by Big Bog Role to sell more stock, no nanobots required
- must have its* workers
- At least the housing crisis will be fixed
  
  On the contrary, if another pandemic killed a bunch of people, many of their homes would be bought up by the same hungry corporations that created and perpetuate the housing crisis.
  
  Also amble parking.
"Let's pack hundreds of animals together in a confined space, what's the worst that could happen?"
- looks around the office cubical farms *
  
  they form a call centre?
Whaaat? A disease stemming from our exploitation of animals?? Surely that is something new and never heard of before!
- How is this vitrol adding to the discussion?
  
  Maybe I'm wrong, but I see no problem in people sharing their reactions. It isn't necessary for every comment to advance a scholarly debate.
  
  There is no discussion. This is going to happen again and again and people will suffer and die. Not as much and numerous as the exploited animals, but still too much.
Cows aren't birds, stupid.
- Yeah but haven't you "herd" of Buffalo wings? Touche!
- And therein lies the issue.
Always seemed kinda dumb to rear animals on agriculture. Why not cut out the middleman and eat the crops directly?
- Many reasons but this could have been avoided if they culled the whole beef supply when it was first detected
  
  genuine question, would you have signed to help with that?
  
  How wasteful
- Meat tastes good.
  
  And it's a dense source of calories.
  
  Plus, vitamin b12
- because meat is mostly fat and protein and is thus calorically dense and filling, and has a bunch of nutrients that are really hard to come by in plants (eg cobalamin)
  
  if you exclude meat (as well as eggs and dairy) from your diet, you'll absolutely need to take supplements to cover those nutrients... and they're usually made from animal byproducts anyway
  
  like, humans are omnivores. you're supposed to eat plants and meat alike. cutting meat out might be a good choice morally (after all, what's the point of eating at all if it brings you mental anguish?) but it's not like you're physiologically a different kind after that
  
  upd. not gonna spam replies but i wasn't talking about whether or not calorie density is good nowadays, i was just talking about why humans eat meat at all
  
  b12 is readily available as a supplement and is synthesized from bacteria. Given that we already depend on convoluted processing pipelines for our meat, that shouldn't be a big problem. Most foodstuff is already fortified with it anyway.
  
  With obesity becoming a big problem worldwide, shifting away from caloric dense foods would seem like the thing to do.
  
  Exactly what US citizens need. Calorie dense food.
It sounds like they only have eye redness, for now. How long can we expect the transformation to take?
Hold on tight, here it cooooooommmnmeeeeessssss!!!!
Now, when you say "in contact"...
I couldn't find a good fucked bingo gif for this.
We need to nuke Texas from orbit...it's the only way to be sure we stop the spread.
"Batman accused of using drugs mule to solve monkey puzzle"
honey where is my flame thrower?
Oh no.
Someone gave this flu the wrong name.
I wonder what all the headline could have said he’s been in contact with. His wife? Car? A BLT? 3 children in a trench coat?
...in bed
Spitballin here, but maybe it'd even be called cow flu if it wasn't so bad for some rich people's business. That's probably just the cynicism talking, though.

The fact seems to be that many of these flu's are interspecies and the origin seems largely irrelevant. It's my understanding that covid-19 originated in pangolins, but "pangolin flu" didn't seem to stick, did it?

I'd be happy if someone with actual epidemiological knowledge could chime in here.
- It's because they're infected with avian influenza and 'cow flu' doesn't exist afaik.
- Influenza is a type of virus, completely unrelated to coronavirus. And COVID-19 originated in bats, not pangolins.
- The pangolin transmission is still just a theory based on the fact that you’d have to eat way too much bat to infect yourself based on that.
  
  The only certainty is that it was once transmitted by bats.

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