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2024-12-18 21:57:27 UTC - HELPFUL
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This post cites an article on NaturalNews.com that misstates UW-Madison's research. It studied gain-of-function in ferrets, not humans. https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36246ZG https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10831 As of the date of this post, 59 of 61 H5N1 patients are known to have caught it from animals, with no evidence of human-to-human transmission. https://web.archive.org/web/20241217231714/https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
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