Now up to 48 species:
- Chickens
- Numerous types of wild birds
- Cattle
- Goats
- Alpacas
- Domestic cats
- Domestic dogs
- Wild cats (e.g. tigers, lions, cougars, etc)
- Many other wild animals “ears, dolphins, seals, coyotes, foxes, martens, American minks, fishers, otters, raccoons, skunks, opossums, squirrels, mice, cottontails and prairie voles”
- Humans
Bird Flu Is Spreading. Which U.S. Animals Have Caught The Disease?
Pretty much, if it breathes, it can get H5N1?
I do not understand how testing and NPIs will do anything – long term. But I am a brain injured idiot, so there’s that.
We kill off entire flocks of chickens – and eggs now cost a fortune. But why? We then raise new flocks of chickens that can re-infected from wild bird populations.
I read one “expert” saying we should have been culling (killing) cattle herds if any cattle tested positive for H5N1. But why? We then raise new cattle that get re-infect from other animals or birds?
What is the point of killing off animals? I do not understand this. At best, maybe it delays things for weeks – other than that, it does nothing in the long term.
Similarly, we have new demands to test all cattle for H5N1, and for cattle workers to wear masks and be tested frequently. But again, at best, that delays for a bit and does not stop this.
Immunity, like with other pandemics, is the only way this ends – or mutations that make the disease less bad.
