Until now, there have been no documented cases of the particular strain in Britain.According to the World Health Organisation, fatality rates are around 53 per cent in humans.A source said the case in a man from the South West was picked up after routine surveillance testing was triggered by infection in his flock.Lab tests show the man is infected with an H5 strain of bird flu, most likely the H5N1 type.He is currently isolating at home, with a source saying contact tracing has been completed and there is no evidence of onward transmission.They added: “The risk to the public is very low. The case was detected as part of our surveillance systems in place around avian flu as it is something we need to take very seriously.”
This is exciting. It suggests that we know who the first human in the UK was.
Side effects include clucking and plopping out eggs
If the press gets that guys name it will be the Feb 2020 Superspreader story all over again.
Excellent move from that virus. Cross spreading among species. Wouah! Mega coool. We’ll create mutants. Half bred human and turkey? Dr. Moreau would be delighted.
Bloody migrant birds coming here infecting the good British people! /s
Edit: reminds me of [this scene](https://youtu.be/cSWKL6Li9ng) from Eddie Murphy’s *Distinguished Gentleman* with the weapon lobbyists hunting ducks with semi-automatic weapons. Sounds like a good solution to the local birds, no?
Why do I feel like I read this story every few months? Why does bird flu never actually spread?
Can’t wait for “first patient with Bird Flu and Covid” stories… Gonna end up like Mr Burns where has so many illnesses they become healthy as they’re cancelling each other out.
One of these days our luck will run out and we’ll get a virus that makes covid seem like a fond memory. Get factory farming to fuck.
Humans have caught it before that’s not too big a deal, but if it ever goes human to human COVID will look like a walk in the park…
We’ve had one pandemic, yes. But what about second pandemic?
It’s not an outbreak. The (ONE) person basically lived with infected birds. This isn’t anything other than a bullshit scare article used for clicks.
> The RSPB said High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is affecting a range of poultry operations across the UK.
What, you mean we still haven’t learnt that factory farming animals leads to highly contagious zoonotic diseases?
Colour me surprised.
Nobody is learning lessons here.
>The agency said the person in question acquired the infection from very close, regular contact with a large number of infected birds,
Went to uni I see
Didn’t they try this same story a few months ago or something? And nobody cared then either.
My aunt had it 2 months ago, she was in a coma for weeks. I wonder why hers wasn’t reported.
Weird, we got a leaflet through our door the other day saying there was bird flu on our street and anyone with chickens/pigeons etc should contact the authorities…
Will need to make sure we all get our rooster vaccine
Pandemics are going to be more common as humans come into contact with wild and domesticated animals more and more. We are lucky we managed to avoid one for so long before COVID came around, we may not be that lucky again. We need to see COVID as a warning sign for what happens when we cause too much damage to nature and begin reversing that.
Oh look, another infection that could have been avoided if we did away with animal products.
Has someone figured out to make infectious human viruses or something and they’re bored of fiddling with covid?
FOR FUCK’S SAKE WILL PEOPLE STOP EATING OR FUCKING WEIRD ANIMALS.
Go back to eating sausages and jerking off – we’ll all thank you for it.
If people keep eating undercooked pangolin while balls deep in a tapir we’re going to end up with another fucking pandemic before this one’s even over.
Is this it, is it finally the end of the world as we know it?
Kind of reasonable people, possibly thinking veganism isn’t insane… but won’t go vegan because it feel like a drop in the ocean. The 5-10% that are vegan are 7.5%~ of the ocean. Join me. We can end this destructive conflict.
Vaccine company CEOs (Dollar signs Cher-Ching in their eyes)
It’s not a new out break. It’s been here for a while. It was first spotted in Bournemouth a few months back. They put a quarantine around the area of a few miles to try and contain it. I’m guessing that containment failed.
I dont know about you but I voted against bird flu.
I initially read this as “Fish Human in UK with bird flu in new outbreak” – thought: things really have gone to shit haven’t they?
Guys, galls, and enby palls… get out your 2022 bingo cards. Who had “the chicken zombie plague” marked?
Wonder if the old bird flu from around 2005, which ended up being a minor thing for most countries, would now be used as reason for a lockdown. I’m hoping we’re not going to start seeing governments suggest lockdowns for infectious diseases much more readily in the future. Maybe it won’t go that way, just wondering, because obviously governments do use past genuinely dangerous situations to open the floodgates to all sorts of future restrictions or breaches of privacy (eg anti-terror laws).
Nobody tell Neil Ferguson, last time this happened he forecasted 200 million deaths
After we kick covid, we get stuck with Chook Crook!?
Gonna guess that the government won’t do anything about this and let it spread around.
Apparently he befriended several chickens and let them live in his house. What a cock.
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Until now, there have been no documented cases of the particular strain in Britain.According to the World Health Organisation, fatality rates are around 53 per cent in humans.A source said the case in a man from the South West was picked up after routine surveillance testing was triggered by infection in his flock.Lab tests show the man is infected with an H5 strain of bird flu, most likely the H5N1 type.He is currently isolating at home, with a source saying contact tracing has been completed and there is no evidence of onward transmission.They added: “The risk to the public is very low. The case was detected as part of our surveillance systems in place around avian flu as it is something we need to take very seriously.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/17237680/first-brit-infected-bird-flu/
This is exciting. It suggests that we know who the first human in the UK was.
Side effects include clucking and plopping out eggs
If the press gets that guys name it will be the Feb 2020 Superspreader story all over again.
Excellent move from that virus. Cross spreading among species. Wouah! Mega coool. We’ll create mutants. Half bred human and turkey? Dr. Moreau would be delighted.
Bloody migrant birds coming here infecting the good British people! /s
Edit: reminds me of [this scene](https://youtu.be/cSWKL6Li9ng) from Eddie Murphy’s *Distinguished Gentleman* with the weapon lobbyists hunting ducks with semi-automatic weapons. Sounds like a good solution to the local birds, no?
Why do I feel like I read this story every few months? Why does bird flu never actually spread?
Can’t wait for “first patient with Bird Flu and Covid” stories… Gonna end up like Mr Burns where has so many illnesses they become healthy as they’re cancelling each other out.
One of these days our luck will run out and we’ll get a virus that makes covid seem like a fond memory. Get factory farming to fuck.
Humans have caught it before that’s not too big a deal, but if it ever goes human to human COVID will look like a walk in the park…
We’ve had one pandemic, yes. But what about second pandemic?
It’s not an outbreak. The (ONE) person basically lived with infected birds. This isn’t anything other than a bullshit scare article used for clicks.
> The RSPB said High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is affecting a range of poultry operations across the UK.
What, you mean we still haven’t learnt that factory farming animals leads to highly contagious zoonotic diseases?
Colour me surprised.
Nobody is learning lessons here.
>The agency said the person in question acquired the infection from very close, regular contact with a large number of infected birds,
Went to uni I see
Didn’t they try this same story a few months ago or something? And nobody cared then either.
My aunt had it 2 months ago, she was in a coma for weeks. I wonder why hers wasn’t reported.
Weird, we got a leaflet through our door the other day saying there was bird flu on our street and anyone with chickens/pigeons etc should contact the authorities…
Will need to make sure we all get our rooster vaccine
Pandemics are going to be more common as humans come into contact with wild and domesticated animals more and more. We are lucky we managed to avoid one for so long before COVID came around, we may not be that lucky again. We need to see COVID as a warning sign for what happens when we cause too much damage to nature and begin reversing that.
Oh look, another infection that could have been avoided if we did away with animal products.
Has someone figured out to make infectious human viruses or something and they’re bored of fiddling with covid?
FOR FUCK’S SAKE WILL PEOPLE STOP EATING OR FUCKING WEIRD ANIMALS.
Go back to eating sausages and jerking off – we’ll all thank you for it.
If people keep eating undercooked pangolin while balls deep in a tapir we’re going to end up with another fucking pandemic before this one’s even over.
Is this it, is it finally the end of the world as we know it?
Kind of reasonable people, possibly thinking veganism isn’t insane… but won’t go vegan because it feel like a drop in the ocean. The 5-10% that are vegan are 7.5%~ of the ocean. Join me. We can end this destructive conflict.
Vaccine company CEOs (Dollar signs Cher-Ching in their eyes)
It’s not a new out break. It’s been here for a while. It was first spotted in Bournemouth a few months back. They put a quarantine around the area of a few miles to try and contain it. I’m guessing that containment failed.
I dont know about you but I voted against bird flu.
I initially read this as “Fish Human in UK with bird flu in new outbreak” – thought: things really have gone to shit haven’t they?
Guys, galls, and enby palls… get out your 2022 bingo cards. Who had “the chicken zombie plague” marked?
Wonder if the old bird flu from around 2005, which ended up being a minor thing for most countries, would now be used as reason for a lockdown. I’m hoping we’re not going to start seeing governments suggest lockdowns for infectious diseases much more readily in the future. Maybe it won’t go that way, just wondering, because obviously governments do use past genuinely dangerous situations to open the floodgates to all sorts of future restrictions or breaches of privacy (eg anti-terror laws).
Nobody tell Neil Ferguson, last time this happened he forecasted 200 million deaths
After we kick covid, we get stuck with Chook Crook!?
Gonna guess that the government won’t do anything about this and let it spread around.
Apparently he befriended several chickens and let them live in his house. What a cock.