Officials have confirmed reports of bird flu (H5N1) being detected in wastewater in the Houston area.
  • FunkyStuff [he/him]English
    62•18 days ago

    I really hate that Americans are such sick freaks that this thing is just gonna become a culture war issue immediately like COVID. Chuds are gonna say that it’s a conspiracy by PETA and Big Soy to get people to stop eating chicken. Libs are gonna pretend to care about masking up again for exactly as long as the DNC finds it tenable. Then in less than a year everyone goes back to plague rat behavior. Nobody has anything to live for so risking a 10% chance of permanently disabling yourself, killing your older and immunocompromised loved ones, etc just doesn’t matter. Gotta get your snout in the slop trough.

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]English
      36•18 days ago

      https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/h5n2-bird-flu-know-first-human-case-rcna155821 | Archive: https://archive.md/DqiQZ

      H5N1, which was detected in dairy cows in the U.S. in March, also belongs to this family. It is commonly associated with highly contagious strains of H5 viruses called the “Goose Guangdong lineage” that have caused numerous outbreaks in poultry over the last 20 years and sporadic infections in humans, said Sutton.

      Granted, that’s H5N1 (old-school bird flu) and not H5N2 (the new hotness), but that won’t stop yellow peril CHUDs and libs alike from screaming about Da ChYnA vIrUs

      • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]English
        36•18 days ago

        From that same article:

        The patient in Mexico had been bedridden for several weeks prior to developing symptoms.

        According to WHO, on April 17, the man developed fever, nausea, diarrhea, shortness of breath and general malaise. A week later, on April 24, he was hospitalized and died that day.

        Sutton said that it’s important to note that the man had multiple underlying medication conditions, which likely exacerbated his infection.

        Remember when the CDC released statistics on COVID deaths and how a high percentage of patients had other underlying conditions, and how the “other conditions” included things like autism, ADHD, and being below average height?

      • Rx_Hawk [he/him]English
        21•18 days ago

        Is it named that because Chinese researchers identified it?

        Edit: Yep it appears that it was first identified in China.

        The first H5N1 outbreak in poultry occurred in China in 1996 but the first human case was detected in Hong Kong in 1997

        And before people wanna say we just blame China for everything because they’re our only real contender for superpower status, this is back when a lot of people were still optimistic of China joining the west.

    • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]English
      14•18 days ago

      It suits the long-agenda of the national security state to attribute all policy failures to China, or whatever near parity power they next decide as a threat.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]English
    46•18 days ago

    me and the black vulture who’s been flightless for like four months and hopping around my area are now on a break, I will not be french kissing him any more

              • @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                3•17 days ago

                This is unrelated to this post but what is the practical reason different types of animal groups have different names anyway? If it’s just for fun I understand, that’s fine. But a buncha birds are a flock, buncha cows are a herd, groups of predators are a pack, etc. That’s the English I use.

                • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]English
                  2•17 days ago

                  I got curious about this so I looked it up on the ol’ Ngram Viewer. Went through a “list of unusual animal group names”. In some cases the unusual name was literally never used, in some cases it had once been used but is falling out of favor, in some cases there was maybe one person who used it in writing a century ago and then more recently people dug it up and brought it back, and in some cases it’s a complete neologism, never having been used before the late 20th century.

                  I attribute some of these trends, especially the spike in the more exotic names since the early 2000s, to the ability to check online for something. In regular speech I think people revert to the simpler categories of pack, herd, flock, school, swarm, cluster.

  • queermunist she/herEnglish
    42•18 days ago

    Bird flu pandemic announced October, crashing the economy and giving Trump super majorities in all levels of government.

    Then he declares he has beaten the pandemic and no one talks about it ever again, while the bodies pile up.

    We’re entering an era known to historians as the “cool zone” 😎

      • buh [any]English
        28•18 days ago

        I imagine it’s political suicide to be the person who “rocked the boat” and ended up letting trump win (even though everyone knows Trump is more likely to win either way)

      • Dolores [love/loves]English
        15•18 days ago

        democrat filtering and party-discipline methods have been constantly refined since Obama’s nomination. any possible opposition are DOA or quivering at the prospect of the DNC coming down on them & taking their incumbency.

    • Dolores [love/loves]English
      10•18 days ago

      Justinian proclamation

      i don’t know what you mean by this. it’s been a minute since i read the histories but i don’t remember Justinian ever decreed the plague over or anything. just lots of gross anecdotes about corpse disposal

  • Teekeeus [comrade/them]English
    8•18 days ago

    Good. Another american plague might distract the empire from thinking about further escalation in ukraine