Bird Bird Flu, Bird Flu's the Word

[Slacker]

(Actually, there are a lot more things. But just go read the article.)

Sometimes this country is so forkin' stupid. Way too often anymore, really ...

In July, the bird flu spread from dairies in Colorado to poultry farms. To contain it, two poultry operations employed about 650 temporary workers — Spanish-speaking immigrants as young as 15 — to cull flocks. Inside hot barns, they caught infected birds, gassed them with carbon dioxide, and disposed of the carcasses. Many did the hazardous job without goggles, face masks, and gloves.

By the time Colorado's health department asked if workers felt sick, five women and four men had been infected. They all had red, swollen eyes — conjunctivitis — and several had such symptoms as fevers, body aches, and nausea.

State health departments posted online notices offering farms protective gear, but dairy workers in several states told KFF Health News that they had none. They also hadn't heard about the bird flu, never mind tests for it.

 

[Twirling Time]

Tweet tweet, motherforkers!

 

[Twirling Time]

Hopefully England and France (and your underpants) are researching the F out of this virus and preparing at least a concept of a plan for a vax.

Because this country isn't.

Biden is perfectly happy to make it Stinky's problem. Can't blame him but that's not the Jimmy Carter Way.

 

[wicked]

Tweet tweet, motherforkers!

Perhaps this is the Pi that was (over)baking in the oven.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Hopefully England and France (and your underpants) are researching the F out of this virus and preparing at least a concept of a plan for a vax.

Because this country isn't.

Biden is perfectly happy to make it Stinky's problem. Can't blame him but that's not the Jimmy Carter Way.

Not sure there's anything he could do that Trump and the Freedumb klan wouldn't immediately terminate. But I don't know how these things work.

 

[Slacker]

Not sure there's anything he could do that Trump and the Freedumb klan wouldn't immediately terminate. But I don't know how these things work.

That's OK, neither do they. ... Get that bleach, though.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

1.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/health/bird-flu-death-louisiana.html

 

[Twirling Time]

Not Patient Zero yet until it spreads from human to human.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Not Patient Zero yet until it spreads from human to human.

Won't take long. Shocking that it's in the home state of Sen. John Kennedy.