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It's very hard to know what to do here, because that's also detecting contaminated milk dumped into the wastewater system, which is a massive signal but also no
by Fomite 2y ago
It's very hard to know what to do here, because that's also detecting contaminated milk dumped into the wastewater system, which is a massive signal but also not human.
- hackernewds 2y agowhy is contaminated milk being dumped into the wastewater system? and what is contaminated milk even have to do with H5N1? it's avain flu and last I checked birds don't have tiddies
- sirtoffski 2y agohttps://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/investigation-avian-influenza-h5n1-virus-dairy-cattle https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-informatio...
- Fomite 2y agoH5N1 isn't exclusively avian flu, and the current receptors for the strain circulating in the U.S. have much more affinity for binding sites found in human eyes (hence conjunctivitis being one of the most common symptoms) and bovine mammary tissue. "H5N1" is a crude description of a wide variety of strains, some more amenable to avian hosts, some not. As for why milk is being dumped into the wastewater system? Because that's where it goes.