Here we go again... China reports first H10N3 virus transmission to humans.

[WarGamer]

https://www.livescience.com/first-human-case-bird-flu-h10n3.html


A man in China caught the first case of H10N3 bird flu ever reported in a human, China's National Health Commission (NHC) announced Tuesday (June 1).

The H10N3 strain of avian influenza normally causes mild disease in birds, and until now, no cases of the viral infection had been reported in humans, according to a statement on the NHC website, as translated by Reuters. But on April 23, a 41-year-old man in the city of Zhenjiang developed a fever that progressed over the following days, and on April 28, he went to a local hospital for treatment.

(Although H10N3 only causes mild disease in its natural hosts, that may not hold true when the strain jumps to people.)




fuck.

[bamagal62]

1. Keep wearing a mask!

[roamer65]

2. Masks!!

[bigtree]

3. should call it the iota virus, since they're giving Greek alphabet names to Covid variants

...couldn't care one right now.

[liberal_mama]

4. If this virus made a 41 year old man sick for over a month, I'm thinking it might not be mild

when it jumps to people.

[FBaggins]

5. No evidence that it's "here we go again"

Things like this pop up all the time and rarely cause problems. No evidence is provided here that it even transmits from one human to another...

... and even if it did and was found to be particularly contagious and also caused serious illness (two very big “and”s), it would still be a flu virus - which means that vaccines could very likely be produced quickly.

[WarGamer]

7. almost everything you wrote

could have been written 14 months ago.

[FBaggins]

8. Not even close

COVID wasn't a flu virus nor was April of last year anything close to a single case with no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

By 14 months ago there were over a million infections and many thousands of deaths.

[WarGamer]

9. ok... 16-17 months ago?

When even Fauci played down the danger of C19...

ALL I meant by "Here we go again..." was looks like another unexpected and rare case out of China. Don't read more into it.

[FBaggins]

10. Pretty much the same answer

New viruses and new strains of old viruses pop up all the time. An avian flu case in a single human is rarely cause for much concern, certainly not cause for comparison to COVID.

Even if they turn out to be more virulent than this one appears to be and even if they turn out to be deadlier than this one appears to be... they are still flu viruses. Which means that existing vaccines can be modified quickly and produced in large numbers (as with each year's flu shots).

"Someone somewhere in the world is sick with a virus that we haven't seen in humans before" is not the same thing as "COVID 2.0 is here!!!". The occurrence is neither rare nor unexpected. They happen all the time.

[ecstatic]

6. Omfg. nt