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   MEActNOW (meactnow@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 18:41:39 JST MEActNOW

   Important wake up call:

   #H5N1 BirdFlu just sequenced by CDCgov from severe Louisiana patient

   Most important, the H5 virus mutated inside the single patient to gain an ability to bind human receptors in the upper respiratory tract

   It takes just one…

   https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spotlights/h5n1-re

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 18:41:39 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     @MEActNOW They are making the assumption/assertion that it mutated inside him and was not passed to him in it's current form, because they couldn't find it in his backyard birds. The other hypothesis is that this strain is already out there in some fashion and he caught it unmodified from an unknown source.