#Zoonoses

Mr Ɲicolas MOUARTsilentexception
2025-06-18

Bravo! Mais comment les eugénistes dans le monde en 2025, font-ils/elles pour réussir encore à respirer de l'air???

VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶveganpizza69@veganism.social
2025-06-05

"Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next pandemic"

Content warning: pictures of dead animals

The article has a paywall after a good chunk of "free" text. It's not clear to me how much of the many $billions market for these animals is for scams like selling parts for "medicinal properties", but there's clearly a lot. It's another reminder of why pseudoscience needs to be fought.

I'm getting really tired of human greed and stupidity.

nature.com/articles/d41586-025

#animalTrade #wildlifeTrade #animalExploitation #goVegan #zoonosis #zoonoses #coronavirus #birdFlu #pangolin #capitalism #pseudoscience #china

2025-05-30

30-May-2025
New study reveals are key players in cross-species spread of

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽NMBA@mstdn.ca
2025-05-25

The feds should've included testing of imported dogs for Echinococcus multilocularis (like for rabies). Humans don't know they've been infected for 5-15 years when the tumour becomes big. Foxes aren't listed by CFIA, so I assume they aren't allowed to be imported.

#CdnPoli #AbPoli #Zoonoses #CFIA #Canada

Northern Alberta
epicenter for rare coyote-
borne tapeworm: U of A
doctor

“We've now identified over 40 cases
in Alberta, and there's several more
throughout other parts of Canada,
but Alberta seems to be a bit of a hot
spot.”

Jackie Carmichael

Published May 25, 2025Importing dogs to
Canada: Government
introduces new import
rules for commercial
dogs less than 8 months
old

From: Canadian Food Inspection
Agency

News release

May 4, 2021 - Ottawa, OntarioThe first was identified in 2013 in Edmonton,
and the majority of Alberta cases are in the
northern half of the province.

Mice and voles perpetuate the disease by eating
eggs shed in canid dung and then being
consumed by a predator.

The disease was probably inadvertently
imported from Europe in a dog or fox, which
aren’t required to be dewormed, and does not
cause obvious symptoms in the host coyote, fox,
dog, or cat.

“We've now identified over 40 cases in Alberta,
and there’s several more throughout other parts
of Canada, but Alberta seems to be a bit of a hot
spot,” Waldner said.
Planetary Ecologistplanetaryecologist
2025-05-24

Companion Animal Parasite Council (Parasitology 🧬)

The Companion Animal Parasite Council is a non-profit organization composed of practicing veterinarians, academic veterinary parasitologists, veterinary technicians, state public health veterinarians, and staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who are dedicated to reducing the numbers of parasites in d...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companio

2025-05-09

So, this site is very simple, but it's been around for years. Visit the forum for the latest posts about #diseases and #zoonoses.

For example, I found this item, posted by one of the moderators, under the thread:
#Texas - #AvianInfluenza in mammals and livestock 2023-2025 [Click the fast forward button to get to the latest post]

"Media (City of Spur, Facebook page)
City of #SpurTexas
May 8, 2025

"Important Notice: #BirdFlu Detected in #StrayCats

"The Texas Department of State Health Services has alerted us that a strain of bird flu is affecting stray cats in the area. The symptoms can look similar to rabies, and this virus is highly contagious to humans.

"Please be cautious around stray cats. If you see a sick or unusually acting cat, DO NOT TOUCH IT. Report it to City of Spur or the appropriate authorities right away.

"Your safety is important - stay alert and help spread the word!​"

flutrackers.com/forum/search?s

#HPAINews #AvianInfluenza
#H5N1 #LPAI #HPAITexas #HPAI #BirdFlu #HealthInformation #Parasites #HPAIResources #DiseaseResources #CDCFundingCuts

2025-05-09

#WAHIS: World Animal Health Information System

"WAHIS is the global animal health reference database of the World Organisation for Animal Health (#WOAH). WAHIS data reflects the validated information since 2005 reported by the Veterinary Services from Member and non-Member Countries and Territories on terrestrial and aquatic Listed diseases in domestic animals and wildlife, as well as on emerging #diseases and #zoonoses.

"WAHIS includes interactive mapping tools and dashboards to support data consultation, visualization and extraction of officially validated animal health data."

wahis.woah.org/#/home

#HPAINews #AvianInfluenza #H5N1 #Diseases #LPAI #HPAI #BirdFlu #HealthData #HealthInformation #Parasites #HPAIResources #DiseaseResources #CDCFundingCuts #WAHIS

2025-04-14

'Epidemiological Trends and Animal–Human Relationships of Brucellosis in Constantine Province, Eastern Algeria from 2015 to 2023' - a new #Zoonoses publication on #ScienceOpen: scienceopen.com/hosted-documen

2025-04-14

'Relationship between Microscopic Agglutination Test and Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection of Seropositivity of Pathogenic Leptospira Infections in Cattle in Chile: A Pilot Study' - a new #Zoonoses publication on #ScienceOpen: scienceopen.com/hosted-documen

Vermont Citizen ScientistWIC4SCI@sciencemastodon.com
2025-04-09

Locating the reservoir of Mpox in the wild: Mpox reservoirs seem to be … squirrels! nature.com/articles/d41586-025 #mpox #health #Publichealth #zoonoses

Zeitgeisty Aphorismszeitgeisty
2025-02-03

Those who ignore ignore .

Alexander J. SteinAJStein_de@mastodon.world
2025-01-24

(4/x) Moreover, farmed #animals are already the leading consumers of #antibiotics, which constitutes a high global risk from the #OneHealth perspective, and they serve as the primary reservoirs for many foodborne #pathogens; plus #zoonoses account for 60% of emerging or new infectious diseases in humans: doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(24)

VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶveganpizza69@veganism.social
2025-01-20

"How Close Are We to the Avian Flu Outbreak Escalating Into a Pandemic?"

acsh.org/news/2025/01/16/how-c

A nice and readable article. I'll only quote one paragraph:

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Where are we now? As Dr. Jeremy Faust, a Harvard Medical School physician, warns, “our current circumstance is akin to a game of Russian Roulette — and there have never been more bullets in the chamber.”
</💬>

#birdFlu #avianInfluenza #mooFlu #zoonosis #zoonoses #pandemic #pandemicene #animalFarming #goVegan

VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶveganpizza69@veganism.social
2025-01-12

🔬 "The H5N6 Virus Containing Internal Genes From H9N2 Exhibits Enhanced Pathogenicity and Transmissibility"

(avian influenza - bird flu)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

<💬>
the H5N6 virus, whose internal genes were derived from H9N2, could pose a greater threat to human health. Therefore, continuous monitoring of different recombinant H5N6 viruses in poultry should be carried out to prevent their transmission to humans
</💬>

It's not just the h5n1 type of avian influenza that is a problem, a "looming threat" somewhere near the horizon. There are other types that are making evolutionary gains to infect more fleshy biomass.

<💬>
Genetic recombination of AIVs is very common in wild birds, but stable genomic evolution occurs in poultry [18, 19]. Due to the migration routes, habitat geography, and ecological distribution of birds, as well as complex herd immunity, progressively AIV carried by birds accumulate amino acid substitution, while stable host transformations such as poultry, horses, pigs, and humans lead to several poorly characterized mutations that separate single clonal influenza virus strains from the AIV gene pool of large wild birds [20].
</💬>

The whole world (but mostly the Northern Hemisphere) is a natural laboratory for avian influenza viruses. These viruses "innovate" between wild birds, and then pave new roads into many mammals, especially the very large biomass of domestic mammals.

<💬>
the combination of large poultry populations allows natural selection to effectively drive rapid antigenic and genetic changes within a single subtype, while recombination with the AIV gene pool carried in wild birds contributes to the generation of a new genome pool [18]. Poultry plays an important role in the evolution of new recombinant AIVs, and stable genetic evolution is a characteristic of AIVs for adapting to mammals [18, 19].
</💬>

Wild birds (and small/backyard birds) drive the evolution of new genetic traits. Large domestic bird flocks stabilize the new traits, allowing for "scaling up" infection. As Rob Wallace put it: "Big Farms Make Big Flu" (he has a book).

#avianInfluenza #birdFlu #poultry #farm #farming #zoonoses #zoonosis #flock #BigFlu #goVegan

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