"degradation of PPE is not uncommon when workers are in close proximity to contaminated milk or animal manure"

I did think ethanol degrades electret respirators (N95s) but is soured milk really offgassing so much?

And proximity to manure - does methane or something degrade electret material?

"with almost any infectious disease, but especially one that is respiratory in nature, asymptomatic cases of infection are “absolutely anticipated.”"

orly

"“We will have a bird flu pandemic,” Robert Redfield, former director of the CDC, bluntly predicted in a television interview in June. “It’s not a question of if; it’s more a question of when … Once the virus gains the ability to attach to the human receptor and then go human to human, that’s when you’re going to have the pandemic.”"

strong words from a person who doesn't need to mince to keep a job

"“I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that H5N1 is going to be the cause of the next pandemic,"

says someone with a John Hopkins job to lose.

"“It can be probably hard to use a lot of this PPE,”"

Ag workers aren't toddlers. They can don and doff. They can't fit test without access to fit testing equipment but that's not on them, that's on the agricultural industry to provide.

All from https://fortune.com/well/2024/11/08/bird-flu-human-spreadsafeguard-people-livestock/

#BirdFlu #H5N1 #PPE #MaskUp