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   Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 02:19:16 JST Infoseepage

   • DoomsdaysCW
   • Kim Possible

   @DoomsdaysCW @kimlockhartga If you want to stick strictly to rodents (mice, rats, squirrels, etc.) I think the list looks something like:

   Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona

   and something about grey squirrels in NY now?

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     Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 05:49:54 JST Infoseepage

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     • DoomsdaysCW
     • Kim Possible

     @kimlockhartga @DoomsdaysCW The issue is whether these viruses get into these particular mammals in a sustained way, because then you have at least minimal ongoing spread competency in a species which is a lot closer to us as a biological system and in which the virus might mutate or recombine for greater mammalian transmission.

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     Kim Possible (kimlockhartga@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 05:49:56 JST Kim Possible

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     • DoomsdaysCW

     @Infoseepage @DoomsdaysCW holy crap. Metropolitan cities are chock full of squirrels and pigeons.

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     Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 05:52:04 JST Infoseepage

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     • Kim Possible

     @kimlockhartga @DoomsdaysCW Rats/Mice are also a common prey animal for a lot of species, which keeps the ball rolling and some of those like cats/dogs have high human adjacency. Direct disease transmission from rodents to humans is also a concern with some diseases via piss and fecal matter and we've seen evidence that H5N1 can be highly persistent in feces. If H5N1 gets into rodents in a sustained way, that's a very bad situation.