ENGLAND: Now there's Bird Flu .... and it's H5N1 !!

Those of us who got our start in preparedness, with concerns from a possible H5N1 Bird Flu pandemic will probably be the ones that will find this the most startling. What could possibly go wrong ... Covid19 .... Covid19.2 .... and now H5N1 Bird Flu all in the same country.  

Multiple Strains Of Bird Flu Confirmed Across UK As Cases Rise
https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/multiple-strains-of-bird-flu-confirmed-across-uk/?fbclid=IwAR1cRo1QeZ40vN0rMhsMTh_5MEBOZlH-vDR4K1AwKitSjgCPILN0hnzepfk

Multiple cases of avian influenza (bird flu) have been confirmed across the UK, following the emergence of a handful of other cases found earlier this month.

Government authorities confirm the risks to humans are limited, but activists disagree and are placing the blame on factory farming.

But Juliet Gellatley, of the leading vegan campaigning charity Viva!, warns the flu could be far more dangerous.

She said: “The emergence of H5N1 in Yorkshire is a worrying development. This type of bird flu is much more deadly than human flu with a mortality rate of 60 percent of people infected.

“Currently, it does not spread human to human easily.  However, the factory farming of chickens gives the virus the opportunity to mutate and to jump to humans – if it mutates so that it can spread more easily we are in serious trouble.

Wonderful. Just what we need...how long until an asymptomatic carrier of Covid 19 gets infected with H5N1 and we get a hybrid virus.

Hope the US bans flights from the UK soon....

dmwalsh568 wrote:

Hope the US bans flights from the UK soon....

That's a xenophobic extreme over reaction.



Oh wait, wrong crisis. I kidd...

dmwalsh568 wrote:Wonderful. Just what we need...how long until an asymptomatic carrier of Covid 19 gets infected with H5N1 and we get a hybrid virus.

Hope the US bans flights from the UK soon....

While the Influenza and Corona families of virus cannot swap genes from one family to the other (they are simply too different, would be like a horse and monkey hybrid), you are on the right track. Some virus in the future may have that ability.

(Now, if we have a SciFi horror movie next year with a horse and monkey hybrid as the monster, we will know we have lurkers... )

TRex2 wrote:

dmwalsh568 wrote:Wonderful. Just what we need...how long until an asymptomatic carrier of Covid 19 gets infected with H5N1 and we get a hybrid virus.

Hope the US bans flights from the UK soon....

While the Influenza and Corona families of virus cannot swap genes from one family to the other (they are simply too different, would be like a horse and monkey hybrid), you are on the right track. Some virus in the future may have that ability.

(Now, if we have a SciFi horror movie next year with a horse and monkey hybrid as the monster, we will know we have lurkers... )

You're a trip TRex