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C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People

www.nytimes.com CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People

The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

What's going on here is that they're not allowed to publish data about actual issues under the Trump/Musk coup rules, because that might benefit regular folks instead of billionaires.

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C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People

www.nytimes.com /2025/02/06/health/cdc-bird-flu-cats-people.html

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If they have to resort to those 10-second auto-delete snaps to get public health messages out, so be it, I suppose. Better than nothing.
- Your tax dollars at work.
  
  I hate how accurate this is currently
- You can archive it at home and help grab snapshots.
  https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

whether it's plague, bullets, climate apocalypse, or meteor, whatever it is, i wish it would just hurry up and end us already
- Don’t forget nuke. I’m thinking those are now more likely than they have been since Cold War days.
  
  They do keep teasing us with that damn, sexy doomsday clock.
  Just vaporize me already.
  
  When you think about it nukes are the ultimate Chekhov's Gun.

Don't look up!
- I’ve watched that movie at least seven times. Exposure therapy maybe. Doesn’t even feel like satire.
  
  Once was enough to crush me and I was in a good place at the time
  
  I can't watch that movie. I don't think I could deal with it. Which I know is ironic.

He They haven’t just embargoed science, they’ve obfuscated credibility for the whole world and people will die.

If its able to go from
birds -> cats -> humans
why wouldn't it be able to go
birds -> cats -> human -> human?
- Because there's a whole range of processes involved in whether or not a pathogen can infect an organism (mode of transmission, various barriers including immune response, etc.) and a whole different range that determines whether or not an infected organism can spread a pathogen (mode of transmission again, viral load, vector capacity and competence, etc). For instance: assume the pathogen can infect an organism but can't replicate often enough to reach the required viral load in the host to spread further via it's usual mode of transmission. We'd end up with a dead end host instead of a pathogen reservoir/vector and the chain of infection would stop right there. That can be seen in the West Nile Virus for example when it infects humans or horses instead of it's normal host: birds. I don't know enough about influenza to tell whether that's a thing here or not but I hope it clarifies why infections are often not that straight forward especially if they involve zoonotic events.

https://archive.today/HpDnj

Whoops

Oh look, the CDC’s back at it—shadow-banning science because god forbid we connect the dots between Fluffy’s bird flu cough and grandma’s ventilator tango. Lab-leak logic applies to cats now? Guess zoonotic spillover’s just another checkbox on their apocalypse bingo card.
You wanna talk transparency? They yeeted the data faster than a hairball at 3 AM. Coincidence? Nah. They’d rather let us play “is it allergies or H5N1?” while Big Ag pumps chickens full of hope and antibiotics.
Wake up, plague rats. If the ”trusted institutions” can’t handle cat videos without spiraling into cover-up mode, maybe we’re the ones licking conspiracy pavement. My cat’s out here hacking up a lung—yours?

So how do I access these brief posts? Is there an archive somewhere?
- I'm not sure; try asking the reporter

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