Here's a huge pet peeve... actually its not a pet peeve its a lack of reality and denial on part of other members of society like B*ck Yard Chicken forums to acknowledge bird flu is a legitimate problem ... I hate it when my topics or threads get banned from forums (unlike this forum) that ban good topics related to their welfare.
I get this message from a Back Yard Chicken forum(I'll conceal their identity)
Here's the message I get from their
B*C chicken forum says:
"Hello Outraged neighbor,
After receiving reports from our community, our moderators have decided that your message (Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we catch from them, according to a major new analysis of viral genomes by UCL researcher) contains content that we feel is intended to troll or provoke a strong reaction:
This is a study that is quite Relevant To Bird Flu"
Masked Man thinks...And here was my perfectly good thread that got banned because they can't handle the truth or science or any thoughts that might excite them to action
Masked Man says::
"Here is a study that should inspire animal workers to mask up for the sake of the animals they say they care for ...
Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we catch from them, according to a major new analysis of viral genomes by UCL researcher
...This is significant because this means the unmasked farmer who might have bird flu can possibly easily infect a pig with bird flu therefore opening a window of opportunity for more viruses and therefore more dangerous evolving mutations. Its just something people don't talk or think about enough the fact that people give viruses to animals a lot more than animals give people viruses. In other words, an unmasked farmer or veterinarian might be asymptomatic with something and infect the animals they are working closely with. So people that work with animals and livestock need to realize that they make all their animals sick probably more often and more easily than they are aware of.
Some scenarios: Some farmer or veterinarian might be asymptomatic and not even know or feel he/she is sick or maybe what he is sick with doesn't bother him/her at all but will take out the whole flock or prove more serious for the animals he/she is tending to. Another scenario could be a farmer with bird flu infects their pigs and then the pigs mutate the virus down the line back to humans in a form of virus far worse than what the farmer was previously infected with.
SOURCE:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240325114138.htm"For the new paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, the team analysed all publicly available viral genome sequences, to reconstruct where viruses have jumped from one host to infect another vertebrate species.
Most emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are caused by viruses circulating in animals. When these viruses cross over from animals into humans, a process known as zoonosis, they can cause disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics such as Ebola, flu or Covid-19. Given the enormous impact of zoonotic diseases on public health, humans have generally been considered as a sink for viruses rather than a source, with human-to-animal transmission of viruses receiving far less attention".
Then the chicken forum bans this kind of careful thought provoking thread proving chicken forum moderators can't handle bird flu related stuff
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...Masked Man says:
c'mon chicken owners! Mask up, put goggles on and take diseases seriously we've only culled or killed how many fowl now? Its bird flu season chicken farmers! Stop banning genuine concerns and truth in regards to animal diseases and bird flu B*ckyard Chicken farmer forum moderators!!! I post a perfectly good link abut how humans pass on diseases to animals far more than they previously expected and I get banned!
A chicken forum moderator says I'm trolling and face banishment for sharing a link by UCL researcher and commenting lol... This is why bird flu is bound to esculate my pandemic savvy friends.
P.S. Later on I put two links of Data Report's archive of studies: one link to bird flu section and the other link to the bird flu in humans section up at that chicken forum and they were so unenthusiastic, so dismissive, and so disinterested with the studies I reported my own thread to be taken off their forum. I don't want to even be affiliated with them much less share links with them... That was so demoralizing to try to share knowledge with this particular chicken forum with their lack of interest in bird flu studies.. to them mask is a four letter word. They show virtually no interest in protecting their eyes or lungs from bird flu.. I mean can you imagine a giant chicken raising forum isn't the least bit interested in bird flu related studies..and their moderator is like replying "that's just a blog!" & "I just wait for a monthly USDA report to see if my area is suffering" and wait for the CDC to tell me what to do. I don't need to bother with other studies".....that kind of disinterest just gives ya the creeps when they don't even thank you for a couple Links to perhaps over a hundred studies on bird flu all neatly categorized and indexed... its crazy..they are doing the minimum they have to do..acting like sitting ducks waiting to get bird flu until deciding to do anything... That's just one chicken forum... I hope all chicken forums aren't so 'chicken' when it come to discussing bird flu in an intelligent manner or we are surely doomed with bird flu! That experience of a chicken forum rejecting bird flu studies does not help the bird flu situation.
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