The sick mammals were found in Florida and Sweden and are both thought to have died from the disease.
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Sep 12, 2022 9:52 AM
For the first time ever, wild cetaceans have tested positive foravian flu, also known asbird flu. The contagious disease typically infects wild aquatic birds and domestic poultry, but a recent and particularly virulent strain has been popping up in a widerange of species, including a dolphin in Florida and a porpoise in Sweden.
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The world’s first case of bird flu in a porpoise was detected after a male stranded on a beach in Sweden back in June. It…
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Oh great…all the best critters can get bird flu. Why are cetaceans vulnerable to it??
I’m not sure, but it’s all because of factory farming that it’s so widespread…
Run off from chicken/turkey factory farms eventually getting into the ocean via streams, then rivers….just a guess.
That too maybe, but the sheer number of crowded, confined birds has made bird flu far worse than it ever has been or ever would be…
A toxic stew of viruses and chemicals in the water supplies, the poor wildlife, how can they survive. Covid and even polio has been found in wastewater, and shellfish in the Pacific Northwest have been found with traces of opiates – what are we doing to the world?
“Bird Flu” has been found in land mammals and now cetaceans. I think they need to come up with another name now.
Bird Flu is just a nickname; it’s H5N9 or some variant and though it’s been around for years, “Bird Flu” is only become such a huge issue because so many factory farms are warehousing chickens and turkeys like never before…
Feeding the overpopulated multitudes!
Even if it becomes a human pandemic, there’s no way it could keep up with the rate of overpopulation…