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Do you know the clinical signs of #birdflu? If you keep poultry or captive birds, it’s important for you to know the signs. If you suspect #birdflu you must report it to us! www.gov.uk/guidance/avian-influenza-bird-flu#signs-of-bird-flu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnM3VAGy84&list=PLouExecY1KndCciDC2keQ8LWxyZKKQxHe&index=14&t=1s pic.twitter.com/calUtCT1Zo
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Eric Feigl-Ding
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Usual increase in sick farm workers—on almost every farm with sick animals (with bird flu), veterinarian saw sick people, too—“It was just a surprise, of disbelief. We were actively checking on humans… ➡️I had people who never missed work, miss work.” 🤔
archive.ph/2024.05.02-163000/https://fortune.com/2024/05/01/texas-vet-cattle-bird-flu-sick-workers/
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
📍POTENTIALLY FATAL DOSE—Experts think drinking raw milk🥛 with #BirdFlu could ➡️“deliver a whopping dose of virus… enough to trigger a fatal infection” (based on animal lab studies). Data shows raw milk PCR Ct of 10–insanely high! ⚠️Don’t drink raw milk!
www.statnews.com/2024/04/29/bird-flu-raw-milk-h5n1-risk-us-cattle/ pic.twitter.com/9nJ5ABWThZ
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
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Well, it appears that USDA has finally taken more steps toward sharing more of the H5N1 cattle data.
Really grateful to this research team for sharing this, though I hope they weren’t holding on to the data solely to ensure they published first.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.01.591751v1
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