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minus-square@Darrell_Winfieldlink6•5 hours ago Human to human transfer has been observed This is directly contradictory to the current CDC statements on the matter, updated today December 18: “No person-to-person spread of H5 bird flu has been detected.”
minus-square@RapidcreekOPlink0•5 hours agohttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03805-4#:~:text=A strain of avian influenza,transmit from person to person.
minus-square@chuckleslordlink6•3 hours agoThat isn’t observed human to human transmission. That’s a “mutation favorable for human transmission” observed in a case without a clear animal source. Those are two very different things. Good lord, scared me for no reason.
Human to human transfer has been observed
This is directly contradictory to the current CDC statements on the matter, updated today December 18:
“No person-to-person spread of H5 bird flu has been detected.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03805-4#:~:text=A strain of avian influenza,transmit from person to person.
That isn’t observed human to human transmission. That’s a “mutation favorable for human transmission” observed in a case without a clear animal source. Those are two very different things. Good lord, scared me for no reason.