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The spread is out of control

link https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vnlpep7ljo or https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vnlpep7ljo ;

A bird flu outbreak has been confirmed at a commercial poultry farm in Cornwall.
The government said all poultry on the infected premises - near Rosudgeon, near Marazion - would be humanely culled and a 3km (1.9 mile) protection zone and 10km (6.2 mile) surveillance zone had been put in place.
It said this was the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 - the major strain - this season.
The H5N5 strain was detected on a farm in the East Riding of Yorkshire earlier this month.
They follow the detection of HPAI, H5N5 and H5N1 in birds kept in the wild in England.
-https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/8233459/vogelgriep-uitgebroken-in-putten-23000-kippen-geruimd or https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/8233459/vogelgriep-uitgebroken-in-putten-23000-kippen-geruimd ; Bird flu has been detected at an organic laying hen farm in Putten. The approximately 23,000 chickens are slaughtered.
It is the first outbreak since December last year. "We knew that this would happen sooner or later, but it is still drastic. I can imagine that this is a serious blow to the poultry farmer concerned. We are taking appropriate measures and are keeping a close eye on the situation," said Minister Wiersma of Agriculture.
23,000 chickens culled
To prevent the spread of the virus, the 23,000 chickens on the farm are being slaughtered. This is done by the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority.

DJ, A.o. also Korea reporting H5 outbreak in farm birds/poultry. Migratory birds are believed to spread H5 types of flu...no doubt mammals eating dead infected animals will catch H5-may spread it...Mixing it with lots of other diseases...

CoViD also must be widespread in lots of mammals around the globe...Flu and CoViD may "start working together"...co-spread/co-infect...

Since CoViD undermines immunity lots of other diseases get more room...
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Increase of testing could provide info on where what (mix of) virus(es)  is spreading...so we at least may get a basic idea...By now it is getty quite an impossible job...

Vaccines (against CoViD, Flu) may still offer some protection-for now-but the new "mixes" may evade immunity...(even the natural post H1N1/H3N2 immunity in older people)...

If you ignore risks risks will bite you...