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       Study Relevant To Bird Flu: Humans pass on more viruses to domes
       tic & wild animals than we catch from them
       By: Masked Man Date: November 9, 2024, 12:20 am
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       This is a study that is quite Relevant To Bird Flu
       Here is a study that should inspire animal workers to  mask up
       for the sake of the animals they say they care for ...
       "Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than
       we catch from them, according to a major new analysis of viral
       genomes by UCL researchers".
       ...This is significant because this means the unmasked farmer
       who might have bird flu can possibly easily infect a pig with
       bird flu therefore opening a window of opportunity for more
       viruses and therefore more dangerous evolving mutations. Its
       just something people don't talk or think about enough the fact
       that people give viruses to animals a lot more than animals give
       people viruses. In other words, an unmasked farmer or
       veterinarian might be asymptomatic with something and infect the
       animals they are working closely with. So people that work with
       animals and livestock need to realize that they make all their
       animals sick probably more often and more easily than they are
       aware of.
       Some scenarios: Some farmer or veterinarian might be
       asymptomatic and not even know or feel he/she is sick or maybe
       what he is sick with doesn't bother him/her at all but will take
       out the whole flock or prove more serious for the animals he/she
       is tending to. Another scenario could be a farmer with bird flu
       infects their pigs and then the pigs mutate the virus down the
       line back to humans in a form of virus far worse than what the
       farmer was previously infected with.
       SOURCE:
  HTML https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240325114138.htm
       "For the new paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, the
       team analysed all publicly available viral genome sequences, to
       reconstruct where viruses have jumped from one host to infect
       another vertebrate species.
       Most emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are caused by
       viruses circulating in animals. When these viruses cross over
       from animals into humans, a process known as zoonosis, they can
       cause disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics such as Ebola,
       flu or Covid-19. Given the enormous impact of zoonotic diseases
       on public health, humans have generally been considered as a
       sink for viruses rather than a source, with human-to-animal
       transmission of viruses receiving far less attention".
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