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Seems like they are not getting a lot of cooperation from the cattle industry.
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Another person gets infected:
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It sounds like we may soon be watching out for eye infections, eye symptoms such as redness, swelling and watering. If anything is spread through milk, I’ll be the first to report, as I’m a huge milk drinker. 
Newly reported human case of H5N1 flu includes respiratory symptoms:
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And now the first human death…
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Note that this is a different variant of flu from the one spreading in cattle in the US.
I.e. now more than one kind of new and different flu to worry about.
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" Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing?
Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind."
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This year’s seasonal influenza vaccine appears to be 34.5% effective against hospitalization in the southern hemisphere winter. I.e. not a great match compared to other seasons that had higher effectiveness, though still significant.
I’m disappointed but not surprised. The flu vaccine has always been based on the best guess by educated but not infallible scientists. We’ve gotten it anyway.
No doubt this information will lead to sensationalized headlines. Given the strong anti-vax attitudes in some parts of our country, including where we live, I expect that even fewer people will choose to get the flu shot this year.
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The B/Yamagata strains of influenza virus appear to be gone in the wild since 2020 due to COVID-19-related social distancing and masking then. This has led to the decision not to include it in this year’s influenza vaccine, which will have three strains (an A(H1N1), an A(H3N2), and a B/Victoria strain).
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Some H5N1 infections in humans are asymptomatic.
I may be wrong (in a household of 1, I don’t buy often) but it seems to me that the price of eggs is up again.
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Agreed. Feels like this virus is getting closer and closer.
Canada's national lab confirms H5N1 in hospitalized teen | CIDRAP includes confirmation that the virus that had a teen in BC in critical condition is H5N1 and that “Genetic sequencing suggests that the H5N1 virus is closely related to those circulating in BC poultry, meaning that it belongs to the 2.3.4.4b clade and to the D.1.1 genotype.” It is different from the virus circulating among US dairy cattle.
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