Bird flu fears grow after spate of mysterious UK swan deaths
Virus causing ‘high levels of mortality’ in birds, with risk to chickens and other poultry
www.theguardian.com
New type of avian flu incoming in UK.
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Bizarre Swan Deaths Reported in Europe As Birds Die After Bleeding From Nostrils and Spinning in Circles
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www.theguardian.com
New type of avian flu incoming in UK.
God I always get terrified by the bird flu. Poor swans hopefully, it doesn't harm the wildlife too much.
That's kind of what I thought with the bloody discharge from the beak and neurological symptoms. That speaks to less like a typical respiratory infection like you would think with the flu, and something more awful, potentially more cardiovascular? Either way, poor birds.
Swan of the Dead
edit: Train to Bu-swan
double edit: Flight of the Living Dead
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Swans bleeding from the nostrils and spinning uncontrollably before dying is the most Lynchian sounding shit. Sometimes, it really does feel like we're one bad storm of amphibians away from the rapture happening.
I can't remember seeing birds in lists of animals sars-cov-2 is known to infect, but one of the receptors it recognizes (ACE2) is highly conserved so it's possible that the virus may infect swans as well. There may be a very wide range of animals that it will end up infecting (although it looks to be more likely to infect mammals):
www.pnas.org
www.nature.com
Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 predicted by comparative and structural analysis of ACE2 in vertebrates
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of COVID-19, a major pandemic that threatens millions of human lives and the global economy. We identified a large number of mammals that can potentially be infected by SARS-CoV-2 via their ACE2 proteins. This...
www.pnas.org
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein predicted to form complexes with host receptor protein orthologues from a broad range of mammals - Scientific Reports
SARS-CoV-2 has a zoonotic origin and was transmitted to humans via an undetermined intermediate host, leading to infections in humans and other mammals. To enter host cells, the viral spike protein (S-protein) binds to its receptor, ACE2, and is then processed by TMPRSS2. Whilst receptor binding...
www.nature.com
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There actually IS a Flight of the living dead movie, lol. And it's awesome!
In Goku Midnight Eye the bad guy engineers a virus to be transmitted in migrating swans that will allegedly decimate another country during mating season.
Yep. In fact, the following paragraph is also in the article, but hasn't been quoted in the OP:
And more information from elsewhere:
And more information from elsewhere:
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The bird flu is cropping up regularly and last time my mother had to have her chickens confined to an inside coop. Most of the infections to poultry happen on open range fields, as infected birds can land there and transmit the virus through their feces.
veterinarians have quite strict and robust epidemic procedures in place and deal with stuff like this every year.
veterinarians have quite strict and robust epidemic procedures in place and deal with stuff like this every year.
Last time this happened it became extremely hard to buy free range chicken... which is a bit of a pain as it's the only chicken I'll buy.
2020 is unrelenting, can't wait to see what it has planned for the final hours of New Year's Eve
2020 is unrelenting, can't wait to see what it has planned for the final hours of New Year's Eve
Better finish the year off with a bang!!
I wonder if it's just covid evolved to include birds now
We have seen covid transfer to animals, and then back to humans. There is indeed a real risk that covid will keep spreading to more and more animals, creating a new infection vector for a mutated strain or strains.
