A second human case of bird flu has been confirmed in the United States since the virus was first detected in dairy cattle in late March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

The infection of a dairy worker in Michigan expands the outbreak of the bird flu, though the CDC said the risk to the general public remains low.

The CDC told reporters on a call that it has not seen evidence of human to human transmission of bird flu and that it has tested close to 40 people since March, including the Michigan worker.

Michigan and Texas are among nine states that have reported bird flu in dairy herds since late March. Scientists have said they believe the outbreak is more widespread based on U.S. Food and Drug Administration findings of H5N1 particles in about 20% of retail milk samples.

  • voracitude@lemmy.world
    30·
    9 months ago

    Good luck with that. The largest economy in the world can’t even stop putting literal poison in the food. Where’s the will going to come from?

    It’s going to take nothing less than a wholesale collapse, and even then most of these chucklefucks - the ones left, anyway - will be looking to get back to the way things were at any cost.

    • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
      14·
      9 months ago

      It’s going to come from people learning that unnecessary animal consumption makes us sick. Some people are/will be slower than others.

    • iiGxC@slrpnk.net
      8·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, but the more people who recognize that animal agriculture needs to end and then act accordingly, the better. Same with any other justice movement: see the problem, take action to solve it.