Bird flu is 'widespread' among birds in Massachusetts, state officials say

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/bird-flu-widespread-massachusetts-state-officials/story?id=118230729

created by AndrewHeard on 30/01/2025 at 05:29 UTC

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Comment by NeedScienceProof at 30/01/2025 at 16:46 UTC

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Whatever strain of bird flu going around often results in a mass culling of the affected fowl - imagine those wanting to de-populate the planet would do the same to people who get the flu.

Comment by Spirited-Guidance-91 at 30/01/2025 at 21:49 UTC

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big fucking deal. it'll evolve to a safe form.

Comment by agentanthony at 30/01/2025 at 17:23 UTC

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Is there real data on this? How are they measuring it? It is this basically a CDC press release?

Comment by Tarrenshaw at 30/01/2025 at 19:43 UTC

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More protein on the chopping block. A useless culling, leading to our cricket eating future.

Comment by MembraneAnomaly at 30/01/2025 at 19:25 UTC

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Bird flu has probably *always* been "widespread" among birds in Massachusetts. And in New Hampshire; and in Ontario; and in England, and Hungary, and Kazakhstan, and, well... everywhere.

But now it's a *thing* we all have to be worried about, and an excuse for PH-types fearing that they might have to find something useful to do or go on the dole to look important.

Comment by auteur555 at 31/01/2025 at 04:50 UTC

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Egg pricing already going through the roof and it’s starting to affect everything

Comment by cascadiabibliomania at 02/02/2025 at 10:18 UTC

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How weird to not see bird corpses everywhere, then. I went to a bird-filled wildlife area recently and it was not noticeably different in any way from any other time.