Germany has reported a rare H7N5 avian influenza outbreak near the Dutch border. The outbreak of highly pathogenic H7N5 bird flu (HPAI) on a farm in the western part of the country, near the border with the Netherlands, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Thursday.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been spreading in the United States in dairy cattle and has so far infected four humans.
This news came as Moderna was awarded $176 million by the U.S. ruling class to create another mRNA injection. This new shot will likely work about as well as the COVID-19 injection and will be just as effective, but many will be convinced to get it anyway.
The H7N5 strain is different from the H5N1 one that decimated bird flocks and spread to mammal populations and some humans around the world. It is the first outbreak anywhere of H7N5 on WOAH’s public records, on global animal disease outbreaks, which goes back to 2005.
These bird flu outbreaks continue to conveniently occur on farms where meat and eggs are produced.
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