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Written by Flying_Donny for democracy on 2025-01-29 at 02:42

Last Thursday's episode of the Osterholm Update has an extensive segment on H5N1 (bird flu). He thinks the pandemic in cattle is starting to fizzle out, but that in poultry, it's still going full tilt. He says the reservoir in nature is migratory waterfowl. He think their feces dry on the ground and are picked up as dust in the wind. Poultry flocks even in barns are susceptible because barns typically are not airtight. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/episode-175-drinking-fire-hose-are-we-drowning

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Written by Flying_Donny for democracy on 2025-01-29 at 02:47

He says that blowing dust from the feces of infected birds may also explain the 3 humans with confirmed infections but no known contact with infected animals. If that's the case, he says we must be missing many other infections in people.

The link in the first post in this thread has both the audio and the transcript of the podcast. The transcript, while poor, is very understandable.

The podcast ends with a segment on the history and successes of the World Health Organization.(2/4)

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Written by Flying_Donny for democracy on 2025-01-29 at 03:27

Here's a quotation from near the end of the podcast: "H5N1 is not going away. This is a brand-new type of virus activity within wild birds spilling over into domestic production and as well as into humans. I know that my description today of a world with lots of migratory waterfowl poop blowing in the wind with virus attached to it may not seem appealing to many, but I think it's real." (continued in next comment) (3/4)

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Written by Flying_Donny for democracy on 2025-01-29 at 03:28

" I think it's exactly what's happening. And we're going to see more human cases related to that. The poultry industry is doomed to have challenge after challenge if they don't change the way they house these birds. They're going to have to find a way to have airtight buildings with only HEPA filter air coming in the intake and HEPA filter air being sent out the backside. If that doesn't happen, I convince eggs are going to be an expensive commodity for a long time to come. " (4/4)

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