Raina MacIntyre
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221 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard 4 Aug
Raina MacIntyre’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then obviously commercial poultry.
In terms of mammals, the marine mammals are at risk.
We know that they've been badly affected in other countries.
Sea lion colonies across the coast, in WA, in South Australia, multiple parts of Australia.
You know, we've seen animals like dolphins get infected.
And then in terms of our terrestrial mammals, you know, there's
species like Tasmanian devils that forage on dead birds, so they have been identified as being at risk.
Kangaroos and wallabies also do sometimes forage on dead birds, things like the platypus, and we really don't know whether it will spread through our really unique native wildlife.
Not in Australia.
And the risk is fairly low at this time because the virus is still essentially a bird virus.
We have different kinds of receptors in our throat that don't easily bind that virus.
So the virus is mutating and it is picking up more adaptations to human beings.
If that switch of affinity from bird to human occurs in the virus, it's likely to cause a pandemic.
But at this stage, it's still a bird virus.
And we have seen human cases, mostly in the US, where it's really affected the farms, both poultry and dairy farms.
And it's been in people who work on those farms and have close contact either with the cattle or the poultry.
And in most of the cases, people have recovered.
It hasn't been that severe.
Looking at the genomic characteristics of this virus, it's very, very invasive to the nervous system, to the brain and the nerves.
In cats, for example, we see a severe neurological syndrome.
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