ALPA email about vaccine
12-16-2020, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by HIFLYR
Not Anti -Vax I have plenty of them and recently adding to and boosted my vaccine arsenal since I now fly the 777 around the world
Originally Posted by rickair7777
(no livestock reservoirs are apparent yet).
12-16-2020, 08:56 AM
#52
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Originally Posted by BrazilBusDriver
Ironically, you've probably got less of a chance of catching it on the continent it originated from than in Europe or North America.
Don't tempt fate, Rick. This is bat country. And Europe is apparently mink country.
Don't tempt fate, Rick. This is bat country. And Europe is apparently mink country.
Hantavirus is endemic in mice in the US, but again we don't have that much contact with wild mice.
Same for mink, even if farmed, farmers are not living with them and governments in Europe can (and have) culled infected herds.
What you don't want is a flu-like pigs/chickens/peasants reservoir arrangement, which seems pretty unlikely so far. There are a gazillion pathogens out there, but only flu has made it big-time in that kind of niche.
12-16-2020, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
That's fine. People are not in close continuous contact with bats. Bats are a big reservoir for rabies, but it can't get to humans often enough to become epidemic.
Hantavirus is endemic in mice in the US, but again we don't have that much contact with wild mice.
Same for mink, even if farmed, farmers are not living with them and governments in Europe can (and have) culled infected herds.
What you don't want is a flu-like pigs/chickens/peasants reservoir arrangement, which seems pretty unlikely so far. There are a gazillion pathogens out there, but only flu has made it big-time in that kind of niche.
Hantavirus is endemic in mice in the US, but again we don't have that much contact with wild mice.
Same for mink, even if farmed, farmers are not living with them and governments in Europe can (and have) culled infected herds.
What you don't want is a flu-like pigs/chickens/peasants reservoir arrangement, which seems pretty unlikely so far. There are a gazillion pathogens out there, but only flu has made it big-time in that kind of niche.
12-16-2020, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by BrazilBusDriver
I was more going for the Fear and Loathing reference with "Bat Country", but point about the animal reservoirs well taken.
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