H5N1 Bird Flu Updates

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I'm still dealing with a slew of relatives who both deny the reality of Covid, the need for ANY vaccines for ANYTHING, the need to distance/mask for pandemics, AND who take pleasure in mocking and jeering at someone like me who is fully vaccinated to the latest variant, influenza, pneumonia and RSV (because, as they all know, I've had open heart surgery duh!). I've also been a nurse for 30+ years and taught, among other things, community Infectious Control programs plus conducted Flu Clinics for nursing students.
But sure, knock yourself out, listen to Joe Rogan (who is their messiah), and mock the scientific health care professional and vulnerable member of your family. They also, surprise surprise, refuse to allow any of us to discuss this and do a LaLaLa hands over my ears I don't hear you maneuver. They solidified into a circular brain clusterf*k.

My point, beyond the rabid unscientific selfishness/thoughtlessness and sheer pig headedness of it, is the so sad socially isolating effect and family-splitting that it has created. Breaks my heart, which is already half-broken. :cry:
 

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Roughly 200-300 ducks have been found dead in Chicago and the northern suburbs around Lake Michigan in recent days, according to a new report from local news outlet NBC5. The red-breasted mergansers have died of suspected bird flu, according to local experts who spoke with NBC5, though it doesn’t appear tests have confirmed that suspicion definitively yet.

About 50 ducks were found over the weekend at Chicago’s North Avenue Beach in Lincoln Park and 50 more were found on Oak Street Beach, according to NBC5. And at least the same number, “if not more,” were found floating in the water at each beach.
At least 22.96 million birds have been confirmed to have contracted H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. during the past 30 days alone, according to data from the USDA’s website, with 82 commercial flocks and 42 backyard flocks identified. But those numbers don’t even include wild birds found dead like the ones in Chicago.