West nile
Quite unusual for colds/flus.
Thanks.
It looks like with west nile virus infection, other than horses and humans, other animals are mostly asymptomatic.
Are all these animals getting COVID pretty much escaping without serious morbidity? Looks like the hippos just had runny noses but were and should end up fine.
Most animals donāt live to the age where these kinds of viruses clobber them.
Animals get tuberculosis. Itās bacterial but itās airborne like covid.
Yeah all the tigers who got covid at the Bronx Zoo were fine.
One of those hippos was 41, which based on 10s of googling is like 90 in human years. Of course, a number of 90 year old humans will survive COVID without much morbidity.
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Are you talking about M. tuberculosis or other similar Mycobacteria? For example in cows itās mostly caused by M. bovis, which is similar but not the same as the M. tuberculosis that causes most of the human disease. Humans can get M. bovis infection as well, but itās not that common.
Based on another 10s of googling it looks like M. tuberculosis is mostly a problem for humans and elephants.
Eh I donāt think it lines up perfectly. 40 year old hippo prolly a lot more vigorous than a 90-year-old person.
I mean, itās a hyper contagious airborne virus. Itās not shocking that it would infect a ton of people. And Delta was dying out in SA prior to Omicron.
Thereās some discussion here:
https://twitter.com/c_althaus/status/1464922703786348546?s=21
Iām not arguing that this is definitely the case, but there should be some caution in interpreting mild cases in SA as evidence that Omicron is inherently mild, when those cases could largely be reinfections.
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Hippos in general seem pretty sedentary, but I agree with the general sentiment. Itās not like there are a bunch of hippos running around with diabetes and heart disease.
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At the LA Zoo they were concerned that their rare Egyptian Pony had caught COVID because of symptoms it was showing, but it turned out he was just a little horse.
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Theyāre mostly active at night, but for lots of animals a sedentary lifestyle can be healthy.
Iām due for a booster Dec 27 and Iāll be attending a largish Christmas gathering before that. Should I try and get the booster early? I donāt think it would be a problem where Iām at.
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That would make sense. Iāve only seen hippos during the day and theyāre normally just chilling in a pond.
Whatās a pycost?
About Ā£1.50
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Getting boosted ASAP is the best idea. Before a big gathering is a for sure, for me. Ideal appears to be about a week before the big gathering so your booster is fully kicked in.
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YES. Tomorrow or very soon. Seriously.
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No, I think delta is way worse, thatās the point. That excess death figure isnāt high enough to mean SA has achieved herd or that most of itās population has had delta. Hell, the US is at .25 percent deaths just based on actual recorded cases, so Iām confident our real death number is north of double that, and we have much more vaccinated then SA and delta is nowhere near done with us.
This omicron super-spreader party event in Norway looks pretty wild. Everyone tested negative before party, index case recently back from overseas. Party was a work Christmas party at a bar/restaurant in Oslo. There were 70 people present for the party and an additional 50 people were also at the venue but unaffiliated with party. Of those 120, 100 are now PCR-confirmed pozzed. Only 13 confirmed omicron last I saw, waiting on genomic analysis for the others.
Still holding superspreader events in December 2021.