H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
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Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
#2Does anyone know if consuming milk containing viral material confers any level of immunity?
Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
#3Is there a significant chance of a human crossover stemming from this cow outbreak?
Are the influenza virus targets in cows similar to those of humans, that adaptations for one host would be useful for the other?
Is the large population size (millions of cows) worrisome for viral evolution, with the high cumulative volume of mutations?
Do governments not consider mass culling an option here, the way they routinely apply it to chicken farms? [0] Or is it too late already?
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/science/bird-flu-aid-anim...
The article debates the safety of virus particles in pasteurized milk, but what are regulators currently doing about unpasteurized milk?
Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
#4Is there a significant chance of a human crossover stemming from this cow outbreak? Are the influenza virus targets in cows similar to those of humans, that adaptations for one host would be useful for the other? Is the large population size (millions of cows) worrisome for viral evolution, with the high cumulative volume of mutations? Do governments not consider mass culling an option here, the way they routinely ap…
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Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
#5Id hazard a guess that live virus contact with people on scale is what — by chance — eventually selects a cross over strain.
So virus that can be cultured into existence of out of milk presents a possible vector for that. Hence they are testing to see if they can grow the virus from milk samples.
Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
#6Does anyone know if consuming milk containing viral material confers any level of immunity?
Probably not. Unless you have ulcers or open wounds in your mouth/trachea, virus will be digested and destroyed in stomach acid.
Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
#7Same topic and covering main questions raised here in the comments :
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2024/04/24/bir...
Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
#8Id hazard a guess that live virus contact with people on scale is what — by chance — eventually selects a cross over strain. So virus that can be cultured into existence of out of milk presents a possible vector for that. Hence they are testing to see if they can grow the virus from milk samples.
> Id hazard a guess that live virus contact with people on scale is what — by chance — eventually selects a cross over strain.
Seems that way!
Now do anti-microbial resistant pathogens appearing at factory (fish and other) farms.
Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
#9Maybe, just maybe, we should ease off on the factory farming...
Re: H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
#10Does anyone know if consuming milk containing viral material confers any level of immunity?
Probably not. Unless you have ulcers or open wounds in your mouth/trachea, virus will be digested and destroyed in stomach acid.
So, you are saying that maybe if there was some sort of an injection.