I remember seeing these dashboards pop up in late 2019 and thought “oh, that’s cute” only to end up checking them almost daily for the next 3 years
There it is, again
That funny feeling.
Yes. Yes! It begins! Covid 2! Let the lockdown begin. life’s going to be good again
I guess COVID is not being pushed anymore
Oh good. Just in time for the best president ever to handle the next pandemic just as well as he handled the last one. /sÂ
I hope this doesn’t blow up. I don’t think my mental health can handle another pandemicÂ
Hey, who’s been testing!? Stop it, and we can get that back down to zero in no time!
Alright I admit I’m very uneducated about this topic, but as far as I can read, it’s transmitted by direct contact with an infected bird, not person to person.
So this case count is a function of poultry farm density? (Or people who are way too into birding)
Hello darkness my old friend, lockdowns have come for you again
And this is just what’s known from places that are bothering testing…
“The first herds in the nation infected with the bird flu virus, H5N1, were identified in March. California identified its first infected herd in late August.
But since then, the state’s agriculture department has found the virus in 645 dairies, about half of them in the past 30 days alone.
The outbreak in dairy cattle is thought to have begun in Texas early this year. As of Wednesday, 865 infected herds had been identified in 16 states.
The C.D.C. has also confirmed H5N1 infection in 61 people, and has indicated another seven as “probable” cases. More than half of the confirmed cases have been in California.
H5N1 has been circulating in wild birds in the United States since early 2022, and it has since been identified in nearly every state. Cows are not typically susceptible to this type of influenza, but H5N1 appears to have acquired mutations in late 2023 that allowed it to jump from wild birds to cattle in the Texas Panhandle.
The virus then appears to have spread on dairy farms from Texas to Kansas, Michigan and New Mexico. In at least a dozen instances since, H5N1 has also spilled from cows back into wild birds, and into poultry, domestic cats and a raccoon.
Until recently, nearly all testing of cattle and of people who might have been infected with the virus had been voluntary. Only about one in 1,000 dairy farms was voluntarily testing its milk supply.
California’s testing and monitoring system is the largest in the nation, as is the state’s dairy industry, which accounts for about 20 percent of the country’s milk supply.“
Very concerning because of reassortment chances but it’s the flu, a disease we know. We have a bit more of a head start on the vaccine. Perhaps like 2009?
…the top post today is a line chart with a **single data point.** this sub is shit now
You can’t get it from other humans that are infected.
Stay away from live chickens in large factory farms.
RELAX !!! Everything is going to be ok.
Fun fact, a study has found that H5N1 is a single mutation away from human specificity, a Glu226Leu (glutamine is replaced with leucine at the 226th residue) mutation on a protein on the surface of the virus. In layman’s terms, this single mutation can allow the virus to bind to human cells much more effectively, increasing the likelihood of human-human transmission. The more human cases there are, the more likely this mutation is to get selected for.
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Data Source: [https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html](https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html)
Tool used: d3 + next.js
Original dashboard: [https://www.birdfluwatcher.com/](https://www.birdfluwatcher.com/)
I remember seeing these dashboards pop up in late 2019 and thought “oh, that’s cute” only to end up checking them almost daily for the next 3 years
There it is, again
That funny feeling.
Yes. Yes! It begins! Covid 2! Let the lockdown begin. life’s going to be good again
I guess COVID is not being pushed anymore
Oh good. Just in time for the best president ever to handle the next pandemic just as well as he handled the last one. /sÂ
I hope this doesn’t blow up. I don’t think my mental health can handle another pandemicÂ
Hey, who’s been testing!? Stop it, and we can get that back down to zero in no time!
Alright I admit I’m very uneducated about this topic, but as far as I can read, it’s transmitted by direct contact with an infected bird, not person to person.
So this case count is a function of poultry farm density? (Or people who are way too into birding)
Hello darkness my old friend, lockdowns have come for you again
And this is just what’s known from places that are bothering testing…
“The first herds in the nation infected with the bird flu virus, H5N1, were identified in March. California identified its first infected herd in late August.
But since then, the state’s agriculture department has found the virus in 645 dairies, about half of them in the past 30 days alone.
The outbreak in dairy cattle is thought to have begun in Texas early this year. As of Wednesday, 865 infected herds had been identified in 16 states.
The C.D.C. has also confirmed H5N1 infection in 61 people, and has indicated another seven as “probable” cases. More than half of the confirmed cases have been in California.
H5N1 has been circulating in wild birds in the United States since early 2022, and it has since been identified in nearly every state. Cows are not typically susceptible to this type of influenza, but H5N1 appears to have acquired mutations in late 2023 that allowed it to jump from wild birds to cattle in the Texas Panhandle.
The virus then appears to have spread on dairy farms from Texas to Kansas, Michigan and New Mexico. In at least a dozen instances since, H5N1 has also spilled from cows back into wild birds, and into poultry, domestic cats and a raccoon.
Until recently, nearly all testing of cattle and of people who might have been infected with the virus had been voluntary. Only about one in 1,000 dairy farms was voluntarily testing its milk supply.
California’s testing and monitoring system is the largest in the nation, as is the state’s dairy industry, which accounts for about 20 percent of the country’s milk supply.“
*[California Declares an Emergency Over Bird Flu in Cattle](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/health/bird-flu-emergency-california.html)*, From The NY Times, 12/18/2024
Very concerning because of reassortment chances but it’s the flu, a disease we know. We have a bit more of a head start on the vaccine. Perhaps like 2009?
…the top post today is a line chart with a **single data point.** this sub is shit now
You can’t get it from other humans that are infected.
Stay away from live chickens in large factory farms.
RELAX !!! Everything is going to be ok.
Fun fact, a study has found that H5N1 is a single mutation away from human specificity, a Glu226Leu (glutamine is replaced with leucine at the 226th residue) mutation on a protein on the surface of the virus. In layman’s terms, this single mutation can allow the virus to bind to human cells much more effectively, increasing the likelihood of human-human transmission. The more human cases there are, the more likely this mutation is to get selected for.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt0180
Should we start buying toilet paper or it’s too soon.
How are they seriously still saying it’s a low risk to humans?! 🤦🏻‍♀️.
*not me going to Costco to load up on toilet paper… again….
Good thing Trump is coming back to office so he can botch this response as well.
This is going to be bad for business.
Ahh California. Once again proving they are the armpit of America.
Trump and pandemics, like 2 peas in a pod
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