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China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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Had exposure to poultry before falling ill... so no confirmed human-to-human spread.

The problem is, I'm not sure you can trust any news out of china to be the 100% unvarnished truth anymore. Seems the only way you hear any bad news out of china is when it gets 'too big to hide'.

Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Millennials gonna be hit with their fourth "once in a lifetime" event so far.

Which one was the second one? I'm assuming the first and third are the Great Recession and Covid.

maybe 9/11 + Iraq war, not sure... losing count at this point

Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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post #9

Had exposure to poultry before falling ill... so no confirmed human-to-human spread.

Are there any variants that can spread from birds to humans but not from humans to humans? Definitely not an expert in this at all, but it seems like the virus wouldn't care where it was before it got in to someone's mucous membranes. I can certainly imagine some modes of transfer will be less likely because maybe this variant causes chickens to sneeze, but not people, greatly reducing transmissivity, but seems unlik…

My understanding is that most bird flu variants that spreads from birds to humans does not also spread from humans to humans.

Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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How does it make sense for humans to get this flu from birds, become symptomatic, but not pass it on to at least their sexual/kissing partners?

Most people have the boring kind of sex where you do not consume the flesh of your partner.

Do you get bird flu from eating birds?

That doesn't make sense.

Does anyone eat raw birds?

Wouldn't you just get it from being around birds?

Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Millennials gonna be hit with their fourth "once in a lifetime" event so far.

Which one was the second one? I'm assuming the first and third are the Great Recession and Covid.

Probably 9/11. The resulting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were largely fought by Millennials (with some gen-z nearer to the end, I think—but the initial invasions heavily involved "elder millennials" [EDIT: and x/y "cuspers", especially for Afghanistan], with younger millennials involved in the long middle period). Though Vietnam (among other wars, but it seems most-comparable) was easily within living memory at the time, so I'm not so sure about "once in a lifetime" for the wars. That kind of wildly-successful attack on the US, though—that part might more-or-less qualify.

Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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How does it make sense for humans to get this flu from birds, become symptomatic, but not pass it on to at least their sexual/kissing partners?

Most people have the boring kind of sex where you do not consume the flesh of your partner.

We don't catch bird flu from eating infected birds, we catch it from being exposed to live birds who are sick (or to their droppings, as I understand it).

Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Millennials gonna be hit with their fourth "once in a lifetime" event so far.

An unprecedented number of unprecedented, once in a lifetime events.

That's the beauty (?) of statistics for you!
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