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H5N1 now confirmed in 11 US farms. Cats die within 48 hours.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/6/2233826/--H5N1-now-confirmed-in-11-US-farms-Cats-die-within-48-hours?

This is serious. To find out more in detail I urge you to check out THIS LINK. Meanwhile here is a summary: Vets are being advised to wear full PPE (personal protection) if seeing a cat with neurological symptoms, after forty cats died on a dairy farm...

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agent_flounder

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Holy shit that's horrible for the cats. Much lower fatality rate in cows. This virus sure seems to like jumping species.

Kind of makes me think a human to human variant is a matter of when not if. Hopefully the CFR is on the low side for humans when/if it happens.

Fortunately a vaccine can be ready very quickly and lots and lots of epidemiologists are watching this thing.

Clent

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The fatality rate is at least 14-33% in humans.

That's much higher than Covid-19 and there is some indication that it can already jump between humans but nothing even close as well as Covid; several magnitudes less.

From what I'm reading, this thing has been spreading around for a while, this is just the first time it's hit our borders without being quickly contained.