SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:26 pm
Montegriffo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 5:40 am
SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 9:00 pm
Yeah, that’s something I very much disagree with trump on. He’s falling for the same goddamn playbook.
That said, I grow my own meat. Not a problem for me.
What happens when your flock dies of H5N1?
What precautions do you have to take to protect yourself from catching bird flu from your hens?
Vaccinating chickens is not a great idea because it can lead to more resilient strains of bird flu but at this point you have no choice. You have to contain the spread.
Can you find any instance in natural history in which a naturally occurring pathogen kills even 50% of a species?
Let alone a magical one that jumps across species all over the place?
Can you find any cases of mass die-offs from bird flu? Not counting the euthanasia campaigns of course.
Can you find me a single human death from ‘bird flu’?
https://africageographic.com/stories/un ... inderpest/
Rinderpest is responsible for measles in humans.
The rinderpest outbreak of the late 19th century was one of the most devastating plagues in African history – it killed 90% of Southern and East Africa’s cattle and the subsequent starvation killed as many people as the Black Death. It wiped out a third of Ethiopia’s population. Its effect on the continent’s wildlife was equally extreme, and the ramifications are still felt well into the 21st century.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildl ... za-updates
First, Great Skuas began dying across islands in Scotland in summer 2021. Then in winter 2021/22 on the Solway Firth, bird flu killed a third of the Svalbard breeding population of Barnacle Geese – at least 13,200 birds. In winter 2022/23, up to 5,000 Greenland Barnacle Geese died on Islay, as well as hundreds of ducks, swans, gulls and other geese species. Birds of prey such as Peregrine Falcon, Hen Harrier, Buzzard, White-tailed Eagle and Golden Eagle have also been testing positive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx ... ave%20died.
Almost all cases of infection in people have been associated with close contact to infected dead or live birds, or contaminated environments.
Since 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) has counted, external 954 confirmed human cases of bird flu, of which about half have died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_smallpox
Smallpox was a zoonotic disease, passed from cattle to humans.
During the 18th century, the disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year, including five reigning monarchs, and was responsible for a third of all blindness.[4] Between 20 and 60% of all those infected—and over 80% of infected children—died from the disease.[5]
During the 20th century, it is estimated that smallpox was responsible for 300–500 million deaths.[6][7][8] In the early 1950s, an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year.[9] As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year.[9] After successful vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the global eradication of smallpox in May 1980.
