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Re:Confirmation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Comm... by more_corn on Thursday July 18, 2024 @04:40PM (#40999531)
It’s my understanding that transmission to humans has been observed but transmission between humans has not. If that changes we’re all going to want to take notice.
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Re:Confirmation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Comm... by ljf on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:13AM (#41003962)
Totally this - one of my concern about the current outbreak is that this outbreak is in prisoners, so men who are kept in closer than normal quarters, increasing the risk of a person to person transmission taking hold.

Hopeful that this fizzles out and we can worry about something else next year, but there seems like a good chance that we are now just waiting for this to spread between humans, and it appears bird flu is going no-where.

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