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Scientists Confirm Bird Flu Is Now Spreading Between Mammals
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Gee, maybe this is why "why is my dog/cat bleeding from the eyes" and similar Google searches have been trending around industrial scale meat processing hotspots for months.
Source?
Google trends. Ask it questions like "why is my cat bleeding" or "why is my dog bleeding" and look at trends and localization over the last 3mo. Search in both English and Spanish to capture data from native Spanish speakers (the bulk of the workforce at meat processing plants) and their extended communities.
Google h5n1 symptoms in cats and dogs (bleeding from the eyes, ass, high fever, pink eye, seizures, etc) and come up with queries that everyday people might Google (like: "why is my dog bleeding from his privates" because Americans can't say "anus") and go from there.
I haven't really kept track of all of the queries we looked through over the last couple of months, this was more my SO's thing. Epidemiologist Twitter probably has some good data too.
Off the top of my head pink eye in dogs, cats with seizures, cats bleeding from their eyes, dogs bleeding from the ass, high fevers, etc all had pretty narrow localization around major industrialized meat packing plants or industrial scale livestock farming.
What?!? How do you find that data? That's super alarming
Google trends, see my reply to the other comment. Epidemiology Twitter has a bunch of related chatter on the topic too.
If you want to dive into a data topic like this my first stop is Twitter to see what the experts are saying, then Google trends to see how that translates into searches the mass public are making while dealing with it.