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#Cat Death Losses Due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in #SouthDakota
Updated January 13, 2025
"#Veterinarians and laboratory diagnosticians are fielding reports of death losses in cat populations linked to avian influenza infections.
"Beginning in 2022, an #H5N1 subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza (abbreviated as HPAI) virus caused death losses in domestic turkeys and chickens in South Dakota and elsewhere in the United States, an outbreak that continues. The HPAI virus causes respiratory and multiple organ failure in affected birds, typically appearing as increased numbers of dead birds in large commercial operations, as well as smaller backyard flocks. Deaths in wild birds, typically migrating waterfowl but also other bird species, have been observed at the same time, as well as spillover of the virus into mammals, such as raccoons, foxes, skunks, and other species.
"In Spring 2024, the HPAI virus began infecting #DairyCows, causing drops in milk production and other signs of illness. Unlike infections in other species, widespread death losses have not been associated with HPAI infections in dairy cows.
"About the same time as its emergence in dairy cows, the HPAI virus was implicated in deaths of domestic cats in the vicinity of affected farms. Most affected cats showed #neurologic signs, such as #tremors or #seizures, for a short period of time before dying.
"Since that time, three cases of substantial death losses in groups of outdoor domestic cats in South Dakota have been described. In each of these cases, there has been no apparent link to dairy cows, other livestock, or domestic poultry."
Read more:
https://extension.sdstate.edu/cat-death-losses-due-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-south-dakota
#HPAINews #HPAI #AvianInfluenza #BirdFlu #USHealth #CDCCensorship
@DoomsdaysCW I am concerned not just about the cats, but also about how their population reduction may affect the balance of other animal populations, especially small prey species like rodents, which tend to be efficient disease vectors.
@kimlockhartga Yes, I I read somewhere that rodents are a carrier of #H5N1. (I'll dig that up...)
@DoomsdaysCW they could play a devastating role in almost any plague. The scary Henipah virus has been found in small ground shrews not far from where I live.
@DoomsdaysCW If you hear about a mysterious outbreak in Eastern Alabama or Western Georgia, you'll know that it's started.
@kimlockhartga
#Henipavirus in Northern Short-Tailed #Shrew, Alabama, USA
Volume 31, Number 2—February 2025
Problem is, with #MAGA digging deeper into #massmedia, controlling #socialmedia, and muting the #CDC, will we hear about a new outbreak at all?
Because that's their solution. To #pandemic, to #climatechange, any problem: just don't talk about it
If you talk about it, you're insufficiently ignorant, insufficiently indecent
You are "#woke", you are disloyal
isn't it funny how "woke" is a slur to them?
nevermind not sleeping, consider Lead Belly's meaning
so apt
@benroyce @kimlockhartga @DoomsdaysCW Conservatives only ever act on their own needs and desires, not the needs or desires of others. This means that in general they don't build things, except things that they want for themselves. It also means that they do not build for any future beyond their own. They look backward not forward. They cherish what was, not what could be. They don't see as problems anything that does not affect them or theirs.
If they do see a problem, they see only those aspects of it that affect them personally - for example, a homeless person is only an obstruction, an eyesore or a health risk.
In general, the conservative view is that they have no duty to others. Sometimes they will feel a duty to an abstract like a country, or "the unborn", but never to the tangible real things, people, circumstances and processes that comprise the real world.
@benroyce @kimlockhartga As seen on Mastodon this week. WOKE = "Will Offend Klansmen Exclusively".
@benroyce @kimlockhartga @DoomsdaysCW
The only slightly positive thing that I see, is that their numbers will thin with every outbreak of preventable diseases that they are refusing to be vaccinated for...
If you can get it, I recommend getting a copy of your (and all your family) immunization records.
Right now* the original recommended childhood vaccine schedule is available, (& printable) on the CDC website. Adult recommendations are also available.
*There is already a 'compliant list' for childhood vaccines. That is NOT the list you want.
Depending on what state you live in, you should be able to get a current record of your vaccinations from your state. California also includes when you will need boosters. (I was able to download it into my document folder on my phone, and I made sure I am up to date on everything.)
DO NOT ASSUME THAT THIS INFORMATION WILL CONTINUE TO BE AVAILABLE.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/child-adolescent-age.html
@Darkphoenix @benroyce @kimlockhartga @DoomsdaysCW ... and here's the page for adult vaccinations:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/adult-age.html
i just got my 2nd (out of 3) hepatitis b shot 6 days ago as an old fart. Better l8 than neva. Thanks 2 my state digital vaccine rec web site 4 telling me
@kimlockhartga Yikes!
"#Henipaviruses belong to the family of paramyxoviruses. Two species have been identified to be zoonotic, causing disease in animals. These are the #Hendra virus (HeV) and the #Nipah virus (#NiV). They produce severe and often fatal illness in #humans and #horses.
"HeV infection in horses, and then in humans, was first reported in 1994 in Australia. In contrast, NiV infection was first observed in pigs and subsequently in humans in 1998, in Malaysia. In Bangladesh, henipavirus infection was traced independently of contact with infected animals.
"Fruit bats (Pteropus species, also called ‘flying foxes’) are the natural hosts of henipaviruses. The Hendra virus is probably transmitted to horses, which are the main intermediate hosts, through the ingestion of food contaminated with the droppings, urine or other excretions of infected fruit bats. The bats themselves do not show any clinical signs of illness. Transmission of HeV to man occurs through close contact with infected horses, probably through their respiratory secretions and urine.
"NiV is carried from pigs, which are the main intermediate hosts, to humans, via aerosols, or direct contact with infected respiratory secretions, saliva or urine, or surfaces contaminated by these secretions. Pigs may have acquired the infection via fruits half-eaten by bats, and contaminated by the virus. Other possible intermediate hosts are dogs, cats, horses and goats.
"In some cases NiV transmission has been independent of direct contact with livestock, through the ingestion of sap from the date palm, which was contaminated by bat excretions. In other cases the NiV infection was transmitted from the infected excretions of pigs to abattoir and farm workers in contact with the animals. A high rate of human to human spread by NiV was seen in an outbreak in Bangladesh, unlike earlier outbreaks in Malaysia.
"The disease manifests in 4-20 days or 5-12 days, for HeV and NiV infection respectively. It presents as fever with acute encephalitis, or as an acute influenza-like illness leading to severe respiratory illness, or as meningitis. The mortality ranges from 40-70% for NiV infection, and 50% with HeV. It is highest among those with acute encephalitis. Survivors have severe residual disabilities, such as incoordination, muscular weakness and difficulty with thought processing and mental functions. Others show paralysis of the eye muscles, with resultant visual problems.
"Encephalitis in HeV infection presents as motor weakness, confusion and disorientation, or seizures. In NiV infection, there may be fever, vomiting, headache, dizziness and loss of consciousness. Rising heart rates or blood pressure, kidney impairment, bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract, septicemia, and convulsions, are also seen.
"Why are henipaviruses so deadly? The answer lies in their ability to encode several proteins which block the innate immune response in infected animals and humans. These inhibit the cell’s response to viral infection, and allow viral replication. These thus act as virulence factors, blocking the interferon-stimulated antiviral defense mechanisms from kicking in inside the infected cells. The virus causes destruction of small blood vessels in many major organs, such as the brain, liver and kidney, causing organ failure. This is associated with microinfarction, infection, and organ failure.
[...]
"Treatment is symptomatic, and no vaccine or antiviral drug has been developed so far to treat the disease. Prevention is by ensuring #HeV vaccination of all horses in risk situations, as well as minimal human contact with fruit bats, isolation of sick animals, precautions against direct contact with infected secretions and excretions and extensive culling of animals confirmed to have the infection."
https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-Henipavirus.aspx
@kimlockhartga @DoomsdaysCW
No connection? Farms often look after colonies of feral cats for rodent control. They'll wander and meet other cats. The ones the vets see will be pets that seem to have no connection to the farm.
@kneworldodor @DoomsdaysCW excellent point
@kimlockhartga @DoomsdaysCW
The feral cats are fed milk they don't market or give to calfs due to medication of the cows producing it. In this plague I can see potential for common farm practices spreading disease.