Re: D1.1 genotype H5N1

On 2/10/2025 12:37 PM, JTEM wrote:

 

The USDA has released their sequence results for the D1.1 genotype H5N1 influenza that has infected dairy cattle in Nevada.

 Relax. You'll get your 17 jabs and then you will be 100% protected from
the disease under all circumstances, with the sole exception of standing
less than 6 feet from anyone not wearing a mask, whether they'd also had
their 17 jabs or not.
 It's "Science!"
 Enjoy your weeds & maggot sausage, serf!

As sad as you usually are, you should reflect on the fact that wearing a mask and social distancing prevented influenza infections.  The flu season never started with those measures in place and 10s of thousands of lives were saved from dying of influenza.  Masking was not as effective against covid, but it demonstrated that if we implemented those measures that we could likely prevent most of the annual influenza mortality.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/php/about/index.html
If you exclude the covid year 2021-2022 the US averaged 36,000 deaths annually to influenza over the last decade, but in 2021-2022 there were only 6,300 influenza deaths.  This was observed in other countries that adopted masking and social distancing.  This means that we could save a lot of people if we became a masking and social distancing society. We'd likely have to revamp our education system too because decreasing the rate that kids brought the flu home from school to kill grandma was also probably a factor at this time.  Schools are very effective transmission systems.
The point is that what we did to try to control covid worked against influenza.
Unfortunately, there is no effective vaccine for the D1.1 genotype. Look at the current flu vaccine efficacy.  They were lucky and included 3 of the most common flu virus now infecting people, but we still have child and adult mortality issues and the season is just getting started.  The vaccine doesn't seem to be anymore effective than last years.
Ron Okimoto