Post Reply - A new pandemic

**Note:** The subtype is not mentioned in this statement, but I'm assuming it is H5.

   https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/11/california-dept-public-health.html  or https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/11/california-dept-public-health.html ;Tuesday, November 19, 2024
California Dept Public Health: Investigating Presumed Positive H5 Infection In A Child
While it hasn't appeared on the California PHD website yet, that agency emailed the following statement out shortly before noon EST today.  It described a presumed positive H5 case in a child in Alameda County with mild respiratory symptoms. 
Samples have been sent to the CDC for confirmation. Thus far the CDC has not offered a statement.
Note: The subtype is not mentioned in this statement, but I'm assuming it is H5. 
Family Members Tested Negative
No person-to-person spread of the virus has been detected or is suspected. Due to mild respiratory symptoms, all close family members of the child were tested – and all are negative for bird flu and not suspected of having the virus at all.
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The rapid spread of #H5N1 & the escalation of risk to life & economy could’ve been prevented.  It’s sad, but true. 

That said, we can still stop it, but only if we act swiftly & decisively. We know what to do, but need strong leadership, coordination, collaboration, & funding.

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We’re watching a pandemic being born.

Over 30% of California’s dairy herds are confirmed infected.

That’s not a warning.

It’s a ticking bomb.

Every herd is a mutation factory, every mutation a step closer to humans.
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A deadly new pandemic is quietly starting. 

At first, it’s hard to notice, like a small seed being planted. But little by little, it grows into something bigger and harder to stop.

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https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/8234039/nu-ook-uitbraak-vogelgriep-net-over-de-grens-in-duitsland  or https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/8234039/nu-ook-uitbraak-vogelgriep-net-over-de-grens-in-duitsland ;
KLEVE - Agricultural organization LTO-Nederland reports on Tuesday afternoon that a bird flu outbreak has been detected just across the border in Kleve, Germany. Nearly 16,000 animals from a German poultry farm will have to be culled.
Yesterday it was announced that there was a bird flu outbreak in Putten. There, 23,000 chickens are slaughtered.

DJ, NL was almost a year without detecting cases of H5N1.