To onlookers: These flus are endemic to factory farms, they occur constantly, there is basically always an outbreak in the US or CAD. (Currently there appears to be a major flare up, inferring from the existence of the article.)
I can’t immediately search or show the endemic nature, as I am on mobile, but one can confirm this by using google and using the date range feature.
Note that these diseases are generally not human to human transmissible, that is one reason they don’t attract alarm.
Another reason they don’t get attention, is how normalized or ignored the situation on factory farms are.
The environment in factory farms is so bizarre and so hostile to animals, to the degree, it is emotionally upsetting to receive factual descriptions of the situation, and so the situation is self-censoring. Relevant to the OP, to enter certain kids of factory farms requires full suiting in bio hazard suits, for the very reason of preventing these outbreaks. This vulnerability isn’t normal. The is the because animals are essentially very physically unhealthy and vulnerable throughout their lives.
To onlookers: These flus are endemic to factory farms, they occur constantly, there is basically always an outbreak in the US or CAD. (Currently there appears to be a major flare up, inferring from the existence of the article.)
I can’t immediately search or show the endemic nature, as I am on mobile, but one can confirm this by using google and using the date range feature.
Note that these diseases are generally not human to human transmissible, that is one reason they don’t attract alarm.
Another reason they don’t get attention, is how normalized or ignored the situation on factory farms are.
The environment in factory farms is so bizarre and so hostile to animals, to the degree, it is emotionally upsetting to receive factual descriptions of the situation, and so the situation is self-censoring. Relevant to the OP, to enter certain kids of factory farms requires full suiting in bio hazard suits, for the very reason of preventing these outbreaks. This vulnerability isn’t normal. The is the because animals are essentially very physically unhealthy and vulnerable throughout their lives.