Bird flu is raging on a mink farm. It could spark a human pandemic, experts say, but officials won’t act.
Reporting Highlights
- Deadly Outbreak: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic.
- Government Failures: State officials didn’t order the mink to be killed, which other countries with outbreaks have done. They are prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.
- Silent Risks: Despite CDC guidance urging officials to monitor workers, they actively chose not to and declined to test workers — including one with a symptom experts said would warrant testing.
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The world is so chaotically fucked up right now that officials are saying "Let's wait and see what happens".
I hope all the mink farmers, manufacturers who use the mink fur and those who buy mink clothing all contract bird flu and die.
Simple as that.
In Spain and Finland they also had to kill whole farms full of Mink. in 2022 and 2023 for avian influenza.
It's insanely sad and pointless that they are raised to be killed for fur in the first place, but at least that was the correct reaction to the infection.
In this case in Utah they just let underpaid workers die?
Fur? Really? Still?
They're farming mink? For the fur?? Who is even buying it???
China buys all the mink fur in the world for clothes production. I'm not sure where the end consumers of the products are.
Yeah... that pissed me off more than authorities refusing to order them to cull the infected animals (which they should have done on their own anyway, imho)
Very rich MAGAs.
Utah... yep. That tracks.
Maybe…. We shouldn’t be farming animals….
It might be an idea to argue for veganism AFTER fascism collapses.
Why can't we stop pointless consumption that probably benefits said fascists today?
I live in Utah why the fuck is this two day old article how I'm hearing about this? FUCK
Sums of why a lot of things are bad
Don't forget, the Regime has flat-out refused to allow the development of a vaccine in the states. This will kill millions.
This is untrue. The US already has bird flu vaccines.
Between this and the Russian incident that everyone has stopped talking about...
Supposedly Russia updated the World Health Organisation last week to say the young lab worker who died did not die of parapneumonic plague and that no pathogens have been identified so far. They've also quarantined 200 of her contacts.
It suggests both that they are taking this very seriously and that something probably DID happen. That one is looking like a near miss, but with the big caveat that who knows how much Russia is actually revealing.
Shit man, I need to keep more aware of actual stories and not the swamp. I forgot about that and was trying to think of if there was a mink farm outbreak in Russia, thanks for the update