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⚠️BREAKING:
French citizen in isolation and tested after developing symptoms after being in contact with Hantavirus-infected women on a plane to Johannesburg.
This is according to the French Ministry of Health.
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- Experts say they have lost faith in the government’s ability to contain the H5N1 bird flu outbreak - CNN “I don’t know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
- ⚠️ BREAKING: CDC tells health officials to prepare for human cases of H5N1 bird flu.
- ⚠️ BREAKING: Wastewater in Saint Petersburg, Florida has tested positive for H5 bird flu. Florida has no known active outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows or poultry.
- Key warning signs about bird flu are all going in the wrong direction, according to NBC News. H5N1 has spread uncontrolled in cows frequently in contact with people. Detections in wastewater show the virus is leaving a wide-ranging imprint, and not just in farm animals.
- ⚠️ BREAKING: H5N1 has affected about 40% of dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle, where 82% of the state’s milk is produced, according to Spectrum News.
- Reports from Sweden 🇸🇪 about an unusual outbreak of Influenza B. Some cases, which have been among people under the age of 18 without an underlying disease or condition, have been very seriously ill with complications such as myocarditis or encephalitis.
- "We have never seen this scale of infections in mammals, and in such diversity of mammals. We have now seen more than 40 species of mammals infected during the last outbreaks, which is unprecedented." Virologist Ron Fouchier, a leading expert on H5N1, in an article in STAT.
- ⚠️ BREAKING: Health officials in Hawaii have detected H5 bird flu in wastewater on Oahu Island. State officials are investigating the source of the positive test in Hawaii, the only US state without any confirmed outbreaks in birds or animals.
- What's unusual about this case? Teenager, so not a dairy or poultry worker. Hospitalized, unlike previous cases in the US.⚠️ BREAKING: Canada 🇨🇦 reports its first human case of H5 bird flu in a teenager in British Columbia. The case is hospitalized and contact tracing and source investigation is ongoing, according to the B.C. Government.
- “I’d say we are now at the equivalent of DEFCON 3 with H5N1.” -Dr. Jeremy Faust, a public health researcher and emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
- ⚠️ BREAKING: CDC sets up clinics in Tulare County to test for H5N1 bird flu, according to Valley Public Radio.
- ⚠️ BREAKING: Some dairy farms that were later shown to be infected with H5N1 first noticed dead cats as early as mid-February, sources tell Science.
- ⚠️ BREAKING: California reports 5 new cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans, bringing the statewide total to 26. 54 cases have been reported nationwide this year.
