Add birdflu to coronavirus

[I_UndergroundPanther]

And the meat industry is in deep shit.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/health/industry-scrambles-to-stop-fatal-bird-flu-in-south-carolina

[2naSalit]

1. Yikes.

[crickets]

2. ... K&R for visibility.

[Initech]

3. As if things couldn't possibly get worse!

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Oh my oh my.

Not good. Bird Flu is nasty,it travels with the wind as well as on the soles of boots and shoes. What happens is,you dig a monster hole and start pitching the contaminated birds into it and cover with quick lime and bury them. Next is a complete disinfecting of all the Barns and equipment. Even the workers need to be monitored or tested as possible carriers.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. Wow that's terrible

That it's so infectious.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Been there and done that

routine .

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

The high pathogenic case was found at an operation in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, marking the first case of the more dangerous strain since one found in a Tennessee chicken flock in 2017. In 2015, an estimated 50 million poultry had to be killed at operations mainly in the Upper Midwest after infections spread throughout the region.

"Yes, it's concerning when we see cases, but we are prepared to respond very quickly and that was done in this case," said Lyndsay Cole, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

The USDA has been working in recent months with scientists and farmers in North Carolina and South Carolina, where a low pathogenic — or less severe — strain of bird flu had been detected.

Low pathogenic bird flu causes few clinical signs in infected birds. However, two strains of low pathogenic bird flu — the H5 and H7 strains — can mutate into highly pathogenic forms, which are frequently fatal to birds and easily transmissible between susceptible species.

[zackymilly]

8. Time to fill my freezer up with turkey and chicken. n/t