From: rokimoto557@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/4/2025 2:51 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 4/4/25 3:21 PM, RonO wrote:   
   >   
   >> Another news article on the inadequate response to the dairy influenza   
   >> epidemic that infected a lot of poultry farms.   
   >   
   > This is the flu that should have rampaged all over Central & South   
   > America months ago, if it was real. Because that's how a bird flu   
   > that is natural, came from nature works:  It can infect even birds   
   > that fly & migrate!   
   >   
   > But this one is so special it's not destroyed by cooking... it's   
   > in the cat food!   
   >   
   > Oh, wait, weren't you pretending that raw meat is sold commercially   
   > as car food now?   
   >   
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   If you had a clue you would know that H5N1 had already spread down into   
   Chile killing sea mammals and birds almost a year before the dairy   
   infection was noticed in Texas in March 2024.  The Asian H5N1 entered   
   North America in 2022 and quickly followed the migration routes into   
   South America.  The B3.13 dairy genotype and the D1.1 genotype are   
   reassorted virus.  For B3.13 it recombined with 2 other North American   
   strains of avian influenza and is only around half the same genetics as   
   the original Asian H5N1.  The D1.1 genotype is also a reassorted virus   
   and has even less of the original Asian genome.  It has the same H5   
   allele, but the N1 allele comes from a North American strain of the   
   virus.  It is still classified as H5N1, but the N1 gene is distantly   
   related to the Asian N1 gene.  The virus is behaving just as it was   
   excpected to.   
      
   The news reports that you snipped out and ran from in previous threads   
   told you that raw cat food is sold as pet food.  Two different west   
   coast pet food manufacturers sold raw pet food contaminated with the   
   virus.  One claimed that it had only used chicken purchased from a local   
   farm, and the other claimed that it had used raw turkey and beef bones   
   in the virus contaminated food so they do not know if the virus came   
   from turkeys or cattle, but it was the B3.13 dairy virus genotype in   
   both cases.   
      
   Ron Okimoto   
      
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