“2025 risks being his year” is the prediction of the virologist Bassetti
Avian flu It’s starting to scare scientists. “2025 risks being the year of avian flu” declared the Professor Matteo Bassetti through social media, inviting people to pay attention to what is happening in the USA where the H5N1 virus responsible for avian flu is spreading among dairy cattle. In fact a Los Angeles two domestic cats belonging to the same family, died after consuming raw milk and have been infected with avian flu. Domestic cats can be infected, therefore, either by consuming birds or animals infected people drinking milk or dairy products made from infected raw milk.
avian and man
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A recent article published on Science and cited by Professor Bassetti, highlights how only a small mutation is now missing for the virus to jump species and begin to spread among men. The most worrying aspect is that bird flu appears to be fatal for pregnant women. The researchers of Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne in Australia, they analyzed 1500 scientific articles and saw that in 30 cases of women infected during pregnancy, 27 had died. This means that the mortality rate is 90%.
risk for pregnant women
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The goal is to insert the pregnant women in pandemic plans, because they are often excluded from vaccine trials. Rachel Purcell, co-author of the Australian analysis highlighted how important it is to include pregnant women in pandemic preparedness programs. Cases of avian flu, especially in the United States, are starting to grow. In Louisiana there was the first case of serious illness in a patient infected after being exposed to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks.
the situation
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In Italy, at the moment, there are approximately 50 outbreaks of avian flu in poultry farms and among wild birds. This is precisely the condition in which contagion from humans is easier. The risk would rise exponentially when this virus passes from human to human like any other influenza virus. The World Health Organization, while urging continued vigilance, underlines that the risk of transmission between humans is still low. The invitation is monitor all cases occurring in men to check that the passage from human to human does not occur which risks spreading the virus exponentially.
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