Imagine, if you will... a bird flu so smart that it only targets chickens. No other birds seem to be getting killed by the millions. Not ducks, turkeys, geese, crows, or robins and blue jays.
Just chickens... and Joe Biden had a bunch killed. Why? If they don't get the flu and develop immunity to it... we'll never have chickens that can fight it off.
Now we have to wait for the chicks to get big enough to drop eggs... what 5-6 months?
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Imagine, if you will... in the future we will have the ability to go to a website and search a specific topic so we can see if what we are about to post on a forum is actually true...
More than 1,500 iconic sandhill cranes have been killed by bird flu in Indiana, officials say, the latest development in the ongoing spread of the highly infectious respiratory illness.
Volunteers in masks and gloves have been collecting the 15-pound birds from shorelines, marshes and ponds, hoping to reduce the risk to pets and children. Data analyzed by USA TODAY indicates this may be the single-largest bird die-off caused by avian flu in at least three years.
"I've never seen anything like this. One or two dead birds, yes, but not hundreds. I literally saw 45 of them die in front of my house, out of the window," said Sean Leone, 48, who lives on Upper Fish Lake in Laporte County, Indiana, about 20 miles west of South Bend.
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The virus has been detected in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. It has been detected in 40 wild mammal species in 36 states, killing bears, harbor seals, foxes, squirrels and skunks, among other creatures.
Last March, the virus was detected in dairy cows for the first time, according to federal officials, prompting new testing to reduce the risk that contaminated milk might make people sick. Since then, testing has shown the virus present in dairy herds in 17 states, though pasteurized milk, which is what most Americans consume, is considered safe.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/28/bird-flu-outbreak-kills-migratory-sandhill-cranes/80700275007/#:~:text=More%20than%201%2C500%20iconic%20sandhill,the%20highly%20infectious%20respiratory%20illness .
As for Biden having "a bunch killed"
A strain of bird flu never seen before in the United States has been detected among poultry at a California farm.
The virus, called highly pathogenic H5N9, is a type of avian influenza, otherwise known as "bird flu." This is not the same type of bird flu that's already been spreading on dairy cow and poultry farms in the U.S., causing at least several dozen infections in humans. That virus is called H5N1.
H5N9 is a highly pathogenic avian flu (or bird flu) virus that bears some structural similarities to H5N1.
"Low pathogenic" H5N9 viruses have previously been detected in birds in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, dating back to the 1960s. However, these infections are usually associated with less-severe symptoms than "highly pathogenic" strains are. This is the first time highly pathogenic H5N9 has been seen in the U.S., and these deadlier strains are also fairly uncommon worldwide.
Some experts suspect that H5N9 may have emerged among the ducks in California due to genetic reassortment occurring between circulating H5N1 viruses and other flu viruses containing the N9 protein. ("H5" and "N9" are two proteins found on the surface of the virus that give the bird flu subtype its name.)
H5N1 was also detected in the birds at the farm, so this could be plausible, according to a Jan. 24 report from the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), which monitors disease outbreaks in animals worldwide.
Such reassortment can lead to "unpredictable new viruses," Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, wrote on X.
ducks may be great host animals for genetic reassortment to take place because, unlike chickens, they don't get very sick from many avian flu viruses. Therefore, while an infected chicken would quickly die, ducks can survive and continue to spread the disease to new hosts.
To prevent further spread of the infection, all of the nearly 119,000 birds at the farm have now been culled. These bird flu viruses are known as "highly pathogenic" because they are extremely deadly to certain poultry — like chickens — and culling an exposed flock is typically considered the best way of preventing additional flocks from getting sick.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-outbreak-of-highly-pathogenic-h5n9-reported-in-u-s-ducks/#:~:text=She%20added%20that%20ducks%20may,the%20disease%20to%20new%20hosts .
