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H10N3 - Chinese authorities have confirmed animal to human infection

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Gingernaut · 01/06/2021 21:04

One to watch

www.sinobiological.com/research/virus/influenza-a-h10n3

www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/china-reports-human-case-h10n3-bird-flu-2021-06-01/

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colouringcrayons · 02/06/2021 07:01

@purplesequins

a friends is an epidemiologist and says their are expecting 'a big one' at some time in the future. covid, whilst scary and devastating wasn't 'the big one'.
Shock Shock Shock

Although I have read this many times, it just freaks me out!

QueenStromba · 02/06/2021 07:06

One thing we've learned in the last 16 months is that hands, face, space stops flu in it's tracks. Even if bird flu does make the jump to human to human transmission (which is likely to massively reduce pathogenicity), we'll be able to deal with it much more easily than covid.

Fieldsofstars · 02/06/2021 07:10

I doubt it @QueenStromba
It’s easier to potty train a toddler than get most adults to use a mask correctly or keep a safe space.

I dread to think what would happen if we’re hit with something more deadly.

Morgan12 · 02/06/2021 07:18

Is anyone else starting to get extremely pissed off with China? I'm so over their disgusting government. Surely its time to intervene?

QueenStromba · 02/06/2021 07:32

@Fieldsofstars

I doubt it *@QueenStromba* It’s easier to potty train a toddler than get most adults to use a mask correctly or keep a safe space.

I dread to think what would happen if we’re hit with something more deadly.

But even with lax adherence to the rules, flu has been virtually non existent. There would also be much more political will to shut the borders early on after the current fiasco.
colouringcrayons · 02/06/2021 08:04

@Morgan12

Is anyone else starting to get extremely pissed off with China? I'm so over their disgusting government. Surely its time to intervene?
How do you mean 'intervene'? And who is to stage this intervention?
TheClaws · 02/06/2021 08:08

@Morgan12

Is anyone else starting to get extremely pissed off with China? I'm so over their disgusting government. Surely its time to intervene?

Avian influenza occurs globally, is only transmitted between animals or animal to human - not between humans (yet). It really isn't particularly uncommon or unknown, and it isn't limited to a particular region. A range of poultry-keeping techniques (especially large-scale) - and cockfighting - primarily lead to AI. These aren't limited to China. This post is ill-informed.

ClaudiaWankleman · 02/06/2021 08:15

Nature always finds a way of culling species.

No it doesn’t. Nature isn’t sentient. Pandemics aren’t divine retribution.

Is anyone else starting to get extremely pissed off with China? I'm so over their disgusting government. Surely its time to intervene?

There are many things wrong in China at the moment but I suspect you don’t have the faintest grasp of them and are instead advocating… invasion and war(?) as revenge for a natural phenomenon. Awful.

yogz1976 · 02/06/2021 08:33

Meanwhile, a new concerning covid variant has been detected in Vietnam - a country still not on the red list. Fucking marvellous.

the80sweregreat · 02/06/2021 08:44

@yogz1976

Meanwhile, a new concerning covid variant has been detected in Vietnam - a country still not on the red list. Fucking marvellous.
I know. I read the whole bbc news items on tv this morning and the virus in the uk and this news story doesn't have a mention. There was a news item about Australia and the virus. It feels odd that it's all mentioned online , but not on the news on tv.
Gingernaut · 02/06/2021 11:35

I've heard of the variant if concern in Vietnam on the radio.

This is the nature of viruses, they replicate so fast, that mutations are inevitable.

Now the Covid-19 genie is out of the bottle and is endemic, we'll never be free of it.

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FedNlanders · 02/06/2021 11:55

My anxiety 😫

purplesequins · 02/06/2021 12:06

@FedNlanders

My anxiety 😫
please don't be. right now enjoy the summer and the fact the the vaccination progress is great.

if/when it comes we will deal with it.
the great thing about covid is/was that there was an enormous amount of data to learn from.

MRex · 02/06/2021 12:19

China also had swine flu last year, as well as bubonic plague. Dengue fever in most of Asia, I recall Singapore was hit badly. Simultaneous ebola and measles epidemic in Congo. It isn't sensible to even try to be aware of every possible threat unless it is somewhere you live or are visiting, or unless that is your job for public health / WHO, you'll just develop unnecessary anxiety.

puppeteer · 02/06/2021 12:32

@MRex

China also had swine flu last year, as well as bubonic plague. Dengue fever in most of Asia, I recall Singapore was hit badly. Simultaneous ebola and measles epidemic in Congo. It isn't sensible to even try to be aware of every possible threat unless it is somewhere you live or are visiting, or unless that is your job for public health / WHO, you'll just develop unnecessary anxiety.
I would agree with that view.

One of the positive outcomes I am still clinging on to is that there will be a far more enlightened understanding about disease, risk, viruses, and especially how they behave in modern human society. I think it's fair to say that it isn't a coherent understanding that existed even in scientific study pre-pandemic, let alone in the general understanding.

That does rather presume that we're not all forced, encouraged, or choose, to stay behind sofas for the rest of our existence.

But overall, and after a time, I think this could all be quite positive.

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