Human case of avian flu detected in England

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/human-case-of-avian-flu-detected-in-england

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17 comments

  2. If this kicks off then expect a catastrophic mess.

    People struggled with rules last time, and it’s so soon that they’ll follow them even less this time.

  4. The risk to the wider public continues to be very low

  5. This case is unrelated to the US cases and it isn’t the same strain. Comments signifying the end of days it isn’t going to be from this case. UK gets a couple of cases every year, so far nothing indicative of a large ourbreak.

    It’s once you get people infected with clades that suit human adaption (such as in the US and Canada) where the first worry signs emerge and potentially the first human to human cases. There are other countries too but can’t remember from the top of my head.

    H5N1 is something to worry about and if it adapts to human to human transmission then it’s most likely to have a much higher death rate than covid did. So don’t ignore news like this, but don’t overly worry either. I do personally think it’ll be a when it adapts and not if, but it’s just not this case.

  6. Not to worry though, because all the world’s major economies are pulling together, sharing information and doing their utmost to prevent the spread of this and reduce the risk of it mutating in a way that allows human to human infection. 

    Wait, sorry; that’s what’s supposed to be happening, actually those slack jawed yokels across the Atlantic put a geriatric mob boss in the white house who, in turn, put an antivaxx nutjob in charge of public health and his first order if business was exiting the information sharing organisation and actively legislating to stop the US’ internal monitoring organisations from reporting on it. 

    Great. 

  7. feck…..not what I wanted to see.

    I dont’ think very many people have any idea how this could all go bad….I wish I didn’t know.

  8. There’s no risk here unless it mutates to be an airborne virus in which case we have a Covid scenario with a much higher mortality rate.

    As someone who lives with a frontline nhs worker and caught covid 4 times as a result, I hope it doesn’t do that.

  10. “The person acquired the infection on a farm, where they had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds. The risk to the wider public continues to be very low.”

  12. I seem to remember Trump advocating bleach injections to defeat Covid. Is this still the official guidance?

  13. Don’t panic, this guy worked in a diseased chicken shed absolutely saturated with the virus.

  14. >The person acquired the infection on a farm, where they had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds. The risk to the wider public continues to be very low.

    >The individual is currently well and was admitted to a High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) unit.

    >The case was detected after the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) identified an outbreak of avian influenza(H5N1) in a flock of birds. UKHSA carried out routine monitoring on people who had been in close contact with the infected birds.

    Sounds like this person isn’t even unwell and instead just been quarantined after cropping up in routine monitoring

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