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BREAKING — New York City live poultry markets failing biosecurity checks amid rising bird flu detections Undercover footage reveals staff handling birds without masks or PPE, in violation of state guidelines. Despite shutdowns and increased testing, 16 bird markets in NYC have tested positive for H5N1, according to a new investigation by BBC Science Focus.

DJ, if you do NOT test  there are "No cases" insanity...
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JUST IN: Measles could become endemic in the United States if routine childhood vaccination rates continue to decline, with up to 51 million illnesses over a 25-year period -CNN
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My latest in - Why Mask Bans Could Set A Dangerous Precedent For Public Health

DJ, If you still need to be convinced of the meaning of both vaccines and Non pharma Intervention what are you doing here ? 
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The most major tool in ANY crisis is information& communication. 

In health-infectious disease stop the spread. Masks and vaccines-both for centuries-do a good job !

A criminal "political/evangelical" elite -for their reasons-worsen crises...
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CDC estimates seasonal #flu has caused at least 47 million illnesses, 21 million medical visits, 610,000 hospitalizations, and 26,000 deaths as of April 19, 2025. Full report here: https://bit.ly/4iD5xIe
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BREAKING Wisconsin confirms that over 10% of its deer population is now infected with Chronic Wasting Disease It’s a fatal prion disease. First-time detections have now spread into multiple new counties.

DJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease ;

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer. TSEs are a family of diseases thought to be caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as BSE (mad cow disease) in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep.[2] Natural infection causing CWD affects members of the deer family. In the United States, CWD affects mule deerwhite-tailed deerred deersika deerelkbisonantelopecaribou, and moose.[3] The transmission of CWD to other species such as squirrel monkeys and humanized mice has been observed in experimental settings.[4]
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https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/04/austral-ecology-impacts-of-potential.html or https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/04/austral-ecology-impacts-of-potential.html ;

Although Australia and New Zealand have both experienced outbreaks of homegrown HPAI viruses (see here and here), the HPAI H5Nx virus currently on its world tour has yet to reach Oceania.  
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Remarkably, even though H5N1 emerged in Southeast Asia more than 25 years ago, and has been widely reported across much of the Indonesian archipelago for decades, the virus has never managed to get a foothold in Oceania.

It has long been believed that that this good fortune is due in part to the Wallace and Weber lines - imaginary dividing lines used to mark the difference between animal species found in Australia and Papua New Guinea and the rest of Southeast Asia. 


While separated by a relatively narrow strait, on the western side you'll find Elephants, monkeys, leopards, tigers, and water buffalo while on the eastern side, you'll mostly find marsupials (kangaroos, Koalas, wombats, etc.).

These stark faunal differences also extend to birds, reptiles, and even insects.

Previous studies have suggested very few migratory birds appear to cross the Wallace line (see The Australo-Papuan bird migration system: another consequence of Wallace's Line).  

Last fall, however, in Virus Evol. : Contrasting Dynamics of Two Incursions of Low Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus into Australia, we saw evidence of recent incursions of both Eurasian and North American LPAI viruses into Australian birds.

Add in the fact that HPAI H5 has now been reported in the Antarctic region, there are growing concerns that Oceania's luck with H5 may be on borrowed time (see Australia : Biodiversity Council Webinar on HPAI H5 Avian Flu Threat).

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Avian influenza HPAI H5N1 is catastrophic and will likely have negative consequences for Australian wildlife.

Summary
  • HPAI H5N1 has thus far affected more than 400 wild bird species and 40 mammal species globally since 2021, marking it an animal disease of unprecedented magnitude.
  • The virus has not yet arrived in Oceania, but there is a substantial risk it will do so via migratory sea- and/or shorebirds.
  • In addition to wild birds, sustained transmission means HPAI H5N1 has also severely impacted marine mammals, suggesting a risk of wide harm to Australia's fauna.
  • Efforts to mitigate impacts on Australia's fauna include enhanced surveillance of wild populations, protecting habitat to increase species' resilience and the establishment of rapid response plans to manage outbreaks. 
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Aside from the obvious damage that HPAI H5 could do to the fauna of Oceania, the H5 virus would also be introduced to an array of LPAI viruses - and a number of animal hosts - it had never encountered before.  

While there is no way of knowing what might come from that, the last thing we need is for this highly mutable virus to have more evolutionary options going forward. 

Stay tuned. 

DJ, Sadly the question is not "if" but "when" H5N1 will reach Australia, New Zealand (and how-sea mammals, birds ? trade ?)
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