The patient from Missouri has recovered, but health officials are still investigating how they became infected.

US health officials have confirmed a human case of bird flu in a patient that had no immediately known animal exposure.

The patient, in the state of Missouri, was treated in hospital and has since recovered, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

It is the 14th human case of bird flu in the US in 2024 and the first without a known occupational exposure to infected animals, according to the CDC.

  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
    30·
    2 months ago

    Never have been, never will be.

    Republicans said COVID was just a little flu, and nature said, hold my beer, I’ll remind you how bad a flu pandemic is.

    As an example, COVID killed like .0875% of the global population. Spanish flu killed between 2.25 and 5.5% of the global population at the time, depending on which estimates are more correct.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      I’d love to know what the death percentage needs to be for it to go from ‘fake news’ to actual problem.

      I’d say there’s probably NO amount of deaths that could possibly cause that for those people.

      • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        It’s not so much the percentage, but which portion of the population dies. Don’t forget Fox started back tracking on their anti-vaccine and anti-mask stance once they realized that conservatives were dying at a much faster rate.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        2 months ago

        I’m not sure. There is a phenomenon among conservatives where they will successfully become extremely progressive on a single issue the moment they, or someone close to them, experiences the consequences of said issue first hand (e.g. a gay child like Dick Cheney, or the countless GOP men who have forced their mistresses to have abortions, etc.).

        I wonder if there is some level of saturation of people experiencing first hand loss that would actually snap enough people out of it…

        • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          You know, I’d agree with you if it wasn’t for the people who were literally in the hospital dying of COVID yelling how it’s fake news right up until they drowned in their own goo.

          That seriously shook my opinion that a human could typically at least be counted on to do the right thing when they were going to die if they didn’t.

      • t�mEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Remember when it covid became a “boomer remover” after that they cared…until a vaccine got created… So for this one 90 - 100%

      • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        It’s only a problem if a Democrat is in charge, as soon as a Republican takes over it’s a perfect world under their leader.