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Great presentation.. but i do not agree with the premise that H1N1 travels through the air.

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This data is about H5N1

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Yes, i read it.. duh... but... H1N1 does not stay contagious traveling through air.. it dies. So it can travel but cannot infect. Sorry i eas not clear about it. Science

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Let me step in here - H5 and H1 are BOTH likely transmittable via air droplets. There are a host of factors determining risks for transmission:

1) dose; 2) temperature; 3) humidity; 4) distance; 5) time; 6) viral genotype. We can't generalize based just on the H or N types alone.

In the research article I cited, the source flock shed huge amounts of viable virus into the air and the infected recipient flocks were housed in buildings where the ventilations systems "concentrated" incoming air towards large numbers of susceptible birds.

In humans, this might be compared to crowding 25 day care kids into a poorly ventilated room with a newly incubating infected child. 2 days later, 10 of them are incubating influenza. Now we can debate whether it was aerosol or contact - there are likely studies to point each way.

I remember, in the case of COVID, a nice paper out of China showed pretty conclusively that the virus was transferred in air shafts between floors of a quarantined hotel.

This whole debate soon degenerates into the masking debate, which I want to avoid, but I'm an aerosol proponent as one route, from what I've seen in population epidemiology in pigs and poultry influenza and PRRS.

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Covid is different, as a manmade material... this it has a carrier.

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It has been detected in the air in Antarctica. Here’s a recently published article, it’s quite alarming:

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-02-14/worst-avian-flu-crisis-ever-recorded-spreads-across-antarctica.html

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I really enjoy these posts, John. Thanks for sharing.

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