THIS IS NOT POLITICS; This is Your Child
Airborne viruses are out of control- #BirdFlu #Covid #Flu . Government has dropped the ball. You have the right to demand clean school air and #N95 for your child. https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/21/bird-flu-improve-air-quality-schools-nursing-homes/
@AkaSci #Trump blames #Eggprices on killing chickens. But #chickens w #birdflu do not produce eggs, infect more chickens, who then also do not produce eggs, but only keep increasing the population of infected birds that don't lay eggs while costing farmers for feed and care they can't afford w no egg sales income. The answer is to defeat bird flu, however slow that will be. Raising chickens to be infected at home doesn't work where it is prohibited (my neighborhood) or for apartment dwellers.
Bird flu’s current spread is ‘unprecedented,’ UN agency warns
The ongoing spread of highly pathogenic bird flu worldwide is reaching an unprecedented scale, a United Nations agency warned Monday.
#birdflu #health #warning #Canada #World #AvianFlu
https://globalnews.ca/news/11088372/bird-flu-outbreak-unprecedented-un-agency/
“…every infection is a chance for the virus to mutate into a more virulent form, one of which could mutate so it could spread among humans. If H5N1 were permitted to infect 5 million birds, “that’s literally five million chances for that virus to replicate or to mutate,”…”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 18, 2025
#H5N1 #birdflu #flu
“…Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has proposed addressing the H5N1 bird flu…by simply letting the disease run rampant. … But veterinary scientists say that letting the virus sweep through flocks is “a really terrible idea, for any one of a number of reasons”…”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 18, 2025
#birdflu #H5N1
The sicko leading the sick. 
“ #RFKJr. has suggested allowing #BirdFlu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/kennedy-bird-flu.html
What to know about the bird flu outbreak in wild birds and what it means for backyard bird feeders.
@AssociatedPress reports: "More than 170 species of North American wild birds have been infected with bird flu."
This is why Canada has plenty of eggs — and the U.S. doesn't
Egg farms in Canada are much smaller, so when one farm does suffer a flu outbreak, the effects are less far-reaching. The typical egg farm in Canada has about 25,000 laying hens, whereas many farms in the U.S. have well over a million.
Canada's supply management system, guarantees even small farmers enough income to stay in business.
#Eggs #Canada #FarmPolicy #Food #America #SmallFarms #Agriculture #BirdFlu
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5330454/egg-shortages-record-prices-usda-canada
@MugsysRapSheet @realTuckFrumper
Yechnically it's mass manslaughter by criminal negligence
#FAO warns of ‘unprecedented’ #birdflu spread, in call for #global #action, https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/1161186
The rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus #H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of millions of birds worldwide and increasingly spilling over into #mammals, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Monday.
The deletions began shortly after #Trump took office. #CDC web pages on #vaccines, #HIV prevention, & #ReproductiveHealth went missing. Findings on #BirdFlu transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The #Census Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned w/o certain directories of geographic info. The #DOJ expunged the #Jan6th #insurrection from its site, & whitehouse.gov took down an explainer page about the #Constitution.
#DigitalBookBurning
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge
#h5n1 #avianflu #birdflu #vogelgrippe ##Geflügelpest
science:
" „Bereiten Sie sich jetzt auf eine mögliche H5N1-Pandemie vor“,... forderten die AutorInnen, dass unverzüglich Maßnahmen eingeleitet werden müssten, um eine Pandemie zu verhindern, etwa durch die Entwicklung neuer Impfstoffe"
RKI:
"Derartige Influenzaviren könnten nicht so leicht von Tieren auf den Menschen übertragen werden. Aber: Wenn solche Infektionen stattfänden, könnten sie auch sehr schwer verlaufen"
Vaccinating poultry could help cut soaring egg prices but U.S. remains hesitant.
@AssociatedPress reports: "Chicken meat producers remain the most resistant to vaccines because of concerns they could harm meat exports, which totaled nearly $4.7 billion last year."
"Potential #pandemic": #Veterinarians warn of virus now affecting #pets, https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/potentielle-pandemie-tieraerzte-warnen-jetzt-vor-virus-das-haustiere-befaellt_9b32f0e3-c871-4c89-9f8f-f03cc8f3f132.html
#Scientists are concerned that more and more cases of #birdflu are occurring in #pets . According to a report by the "hna", the #H5N1 virus, known as bird flu, is now also infecting #dogs and #cats. Experts are talking about a "silent pandemic" that primarily affects domestic cats.
Are disease experts still allowed to work in the US?
AP: Egg prices continue to hit records as Easter and Passover approach https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/egg-prices-continue-to-hit-records-as-easter-and-passover-approach #eggs #inflation #birdflu
Don't worry, Trump & his team are ON IT!
"Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently ID'd in 4 dairy cow herds, nearly year after H5N1 #BirdFlu 1st reported in TX dairy cattle.
..researchers have dreaded finding bc it is assoc w increased mammal-to-mammal transmission & disease severity.
Mutation appeared in 1st human case. “Finding the same mutation in cows is significant,” an infectious disease expert said"
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-03-12/study-shows-widespread-h5n1-bird-flu-infection-in-cattle
