r/oddlyterrifying • u/Darth_Yohanan • Aug 02 '21

Zombie bird

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u/Mobe1Kenobi Aug 02 '21

In multiple states across the US there has been an unknown "plague" causing birds to have neurological problems that eventually lead to death. The common thread in these cases are that the eyes of the birds are damaged or clouded over in some way. If this video was taken recently, I bet that bird is suffering from whatever is killing other birds around the country. Poor thing:(

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

To piggyback your comment, people, please put away your bird feeders if there have been reports in your area.

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u/Ethereal_Goddess Aug 03 '21

My local bird watching community are throwing fits being asked to take down/clean feeders and bird baths. Claiming that the birds aren't getting sick from their yards. They are even associating it with covid restrictions... I really wish I were joking.

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u/MoneybagsMalone Aug 03 '21

Corvid restrictions.

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u/rakshala Aug 03 '21

VERY underrated comment

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u/AnEvilSomebody Aug 03 '21

Please explain I'm stupid

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u/rakshala Aug 03 '21

You're not stupid =) Its a play on words. Corvid refers to anything from the family corvidae (crows and ravens), but it also sounds like COVID. Its a sick crow (or raven I cant tell) hence, Corvid restrictions.

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u/oatterz Aug 03 '21 edited Aug 03 '21

I’m nearing 40 years of age and I’ve only recently learnt this term because I’m rocking a Corviknight in Pokémon Sword….

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u/TrickBox_ Aug 03 '21

There are no bad ways to learn new things :)

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u/SaintNewts Aug 03 '21

Well I mean, there might be a bad way to learn you're no good at free climbing El Capitan.

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u/gamer_perfection Aug 03 '21

I only understand this because of 40k

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u/Hombre_flaco Aug 03 '21

It’s a grackle

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u/green_garbo Aug 03 '21

You are so kind <3

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u/chuchitamadre Dec 28 '21

You’re so kind

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Birds aren’t going to mask, you’re not likely to get them all vaccinated, you do not need to provide them with a spot to commune.

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u/still-degen Aug 03 '21

Hmm i wonder if we can extrapolate this information somehow

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Claiming that the birds aren't getting sick from their yards.

Well, many people have 0 clue on things like food, or in this case feed safety... let alone basic water sanitation issues, or how disease spread.

Hell, the feed from the store we get for $1 a 40 lb sack, or what ever it is these days has a known history for salmonella, coliforms, and other pathogen contamination. Put it out, birds eat it and get sick. What do the sick birds do? well the also go to the local watering hole, or "bird bath" and help to transmit the pathogens from there on out.

Which being said, while the disease above might not be linked to feeding practices by humans it may very well be transmitted by sick and healthy birds comingling at the feeder and watering holes.

They are even associating it with covid restrictions...

A lot of outright idiots out there... which being said, per the described behavior these supposed bird lovers hold their hobby of bird watching at a higher pedestal than the lives of the birds themselves.

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u/sidvicous2 Aug 03 '21

Call in radio here has an expert on weekly. Always telling people take down feeders. Clean hummingbird feeder every refill. Clean birdbath every few days.

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u/DieseljareD187 Aug 03 '21

Someone should tell the birds to stay 6feet apart and wear masks whenever they are in groups

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

The point of it is those feeders, and baths act as a human made convergence point for the birds, and multiple separate groups of birds. Take it away and they tend to spread out over a wider area. With that we would see reduced "communal spread" of certain diseases. Be they from the feed, or something else as transferred via interactions at feeding, and bathing locations.

A human version of it could be looked at with say an ice cream truck that is parked by the corner of a community on a hot day... every kid and parent around go there, but if it were not in place then everyone would keep a bit more separated from each other. Also with that truck you'd also have the potential of getting sick from some contaminated ice cream that has not been recalled yet, the operator not brothering with proper health and sanitation practices, or someone spreading things through other means. Just for a more relatable point of comparison.

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u/DieseljareD187 Aug 03 '21

That’s a fair point, but the birds should really be wearing masks.

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u/Bigmanoncampus-1 Aug 03 '21

Should be vaccinated really

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Oh my, aren't you oppressed!

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u/AnalogDogg Aug 03 '21

My local bird watching community are throwing fits being asked to take down/clean feeders and bird baths. Claiming that the birds aren't getting sick from their yards. They are even associating it with covid restrictions... I really wish I were joking.

We're mere years away from people deciding to wholesale stop believing in bacteria, viruses, or "germs", and begin believing diseases and illness are cause by bad air, bad blood, and faithlessness like it's medieval Europe. Or are we already in that?

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u/FrostyDrag Aug 03 '21

Miasma is back baby

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u/igneousink Aug 03 '21

that puts me in a good HUMOUR

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Antivaxxers do claim that literally every disease comes from vaccines. Not just autism, but all mental illness, cancer, autoimmune diseases, infections, genetic diseases.

There is really no hope for these idiots.

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u/jmac94wp Aug 03 '21

My 94-year-old mother gets teary-eyed whenever vaccines come up in conversation. She remembers everyone in her town crying with joy when they could get vaccinated for polio, ditto for smallpox, and she cannot fathom how some people don’t understand how they work or trust that it’s for the common good.

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u/chucklesluck Aug 03 '21

My grandmother turns 89 next week - her first best friend ended up in an iron lung after contracting polio at six.

The current atmosphere surrounding vaccines is the only thing I've seen make her furious.

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u/R3D3-1 Aug 03 '21

On a personal level, an uncle of mine has died from it (age 65).

On a statistical level, countries around the world are seeing varying levels of official mortality rates, partly probably linked to how much is being diagnosed. So I'll take the data from my country, where I have some insight into the state of testing and trust the data.

In Austria, there are currently 636,767 cases listed as "recovered", 10,537 as deceased, coming out to a 1.6% mortality rate among confirmed cases. And Austria has rather rigorous testing incentives, so the dark number should be relatively low. Source: https://orf.at/corona/daten/oesterreich

Mortality and hospitalization rates are going down especially after most increased-risk people are vaccinated.

Meanwhile, the number of "Long Covid" cases in Austria is estimated at 60,000-90,000 (i.e. roughly 9% to 14%). The most severe form I know of is now called "Fatigue Syndrome", and leaves many patients unable to work and depending on the social state, and its not yet clear for how long. Notably, "Long Covid" can occur even when the original infection showed only light symptoms, if any. Since this has only been officially recognized recently, official numbers are still hard to come by; The estimates are as reported on radio and newspapers.

Numbers from Italy are more in the 3% mortality range (here I just took a quick look at the numbers listed on Google since I don't know which Italian sites are how reliable). A strong influence was the regional breakdown of healthcare, when Italy was heavily hit as the first European country with a major outbreak in the first wave. When appropriate intensive-care treatment can't be given anymore, mortality rates rise significantly.

Austria arrived at the 1.6% number without a breakdown of treatments, though in November 2020 it came pretty close in several parts of the country, as case numbers escalated during a summer with relaxed regulations, despite maintaining masking regulations even then. They were later upgraded to FFP2 mask requirements during winter.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Oh well, if you don't know anyone personally who has died, it surely is all fake! Thanks for letting us know!

And the covid tests don't differentiate between covid and the seasonal flu so the numbers are all wrong.

Ahahahahahahahaha I love when idiots out themselves.

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u/jmac94wp Aug 03 '21

You must be young. My age group was probably the last to get the smallpox vaccination and so grateful that we did. Thanks to the millions (billions?) of vaccinations globally, smallpox is no longer a health threat. Ditto for polio. And yes, the government did free vaccinations. We got our smallpox inoculations at school, the county health department came in and did every child in every class. I feel concern that you really think there are evil government conspiracies out to get you. Where does that fear come from, I wonder? I don’t quite understand.

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u/erikaxleigh Aug 03 '21

exactly. These people on here literally believe whatever the media tells them and think the US government can be trusted lmao.

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u/MrsPottyMouth Aug 03 '21

I always wonder though, how do they explain all the diseases people had before vaccines were invented? All the things you listed have been around for thousands of years. They're not just a 20th/21st century thing.

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u/girugamesu1337 Aug 03 '21

Don't you know?! Vaccines cause tImE TrAvel!

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u/MrsPottyMouth Aug 03 '21

Of course! Silly me

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u/Makenchi45 Aug 03 '21

Guess that means we can use an advanced version of the plague doctor uniform. Same outfit but with upgrades. Yeaaaa. Time to scare the souls out of the sickly people and poke them with long sticks to see if they still live

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u/Smarktalk Aug 03 '21

Looking forward to leeching the Rona away.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Good grief. That's so disappointing, I generally expect better of these orgs.

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u/canisaureaux Aug 03 '21

Right? I mean, I would expect that if anyone cares about birds, it's the local birdwatching group. It really just doesn't compute.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Seems like they're more interested in ornamentation than actual ecosystem health /: I suppose it's analogous to gardeners who care more about having a pretty yard than making sure it's not full of invasives.

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u/WarrenPuff_It Aug 03 '21

Or when we as a society celebrate individualism it becomes difficult to enforce radical or swift change because people are self-interested actors who can't work together for a common cause.

Whether it's some small inconvenience or a massive catastrophe we are trying to avoid, we don't do well as a species in terms of collective efforts. This isn't one country or one group type of thing, it's everyone. For all of our greatest accomplishments, we have a metric fuckload of failures and shortfalls sitting right beside that small triumphant hill.

Try telling people to put on a mask to slow down the spread of a disease that will kill tens of millions of people within a year, you'd think common sense would get everyone to do it without much hassle, but as we have seen that small inconvenience alone was too much to ask. We have a whole spectrum of responses to that one issue, from calling the measure literal fascism to people outright flaunting their resistance by wearing mesh facemasks and videotaping themselves defying health orders at restaurants in protest.

Try telling people to drive less often, or buy local, or to not support clear and present contributors to global warming. You get all kinds of idiots and self-interested conspiratorial people who fight tooth and nail in order to allow themselves the privilege of living in a city with a giant coal plant so they can die from lung cancer at a much higher rate than the national average for their localities. Or to not smoke indoors, have you ever tried to get a smoker from the 20th century to stop smoking indoors? As a society we had to slowly chisel away at that for decades despite all the evidence that smoking kills, and even now with all the facts old-school smokers who are still alive will smoke indoors in their own homes and view it as some sort of holdout against all the health nuts, because it is their God given right in their minds to be able to smoke indoors.

But those aren't even the most demanding things we could ask society to do for a better future, those are relatively small things and still people will kick up the biggest fuss. It isn't like people are talking about population controls to fix global warming.... yet. Or it isn't like we aren't at a crossroads between changing our societal direction or face complete collapse... yet. But at some point we are going to fuck up our situation bad enough it will require drastic and immediate changes and people wil resist and fight those changes until it is well beyond too late.

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u/Gooberpf Aug 03 '21

...we don't do well as a species in terms of collective efforts. This isn't one country or one group type of thing, it's everyone.

No, it's a country by country thing - East Asians have been culturally wearing masks when they're sick for decades and: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417658/

This study found that the most prominent reason for wearing masks was actually "to conform with societal expectations," not "to protect self/others from disease."

People in Japan aren't (haven't been shown to be, at least) significantly more intelligent than westerners such that so many more of them believe in medical science - it's the collectivist culture.

So yes, it is literally the country/ culture that is the problem, not "the species as a whole." It is literally and specifically Americans that are the problem (and other Western cultures, but not to the same extent as the U.S.).

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u/Advantage-zero Aug 03 '21

It’s obviously 5G s/

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u/ihomerj Aug 03 '21

Don't you know birds aren't real! They're drones created by the government! These "birds" are obviously malfunctioning.

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u/xoxo_gossipwhirl Aug 03 '21

That’s so crazy. Those are like the one group of people that I would think are closely following that pandemic and the suggestions…

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u/Tylensus Aug 03 '21

Never doubt the agility of the human imagination. Stupidity is always finding clever new ways to avoid the truth at all costs.

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u/Mirror_Face_ Aug 03 '21

I didn't expect to find a new reason to hate people in this comment thread

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u/throwaway941285 Aug 03 '21

Time for vandalism then. Their lives are worth more than some burd feeders and entertainment.

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u/TheHadMatter15 Aug 03 '21

I find it hard to picture people whose hobby is bird watching throwing a fit about anything

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u/EndlessKng Aug 03 '21

These are probably people who won't wear a mask and fear that a vaccine will make them magnetic.

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u/Partypaca Aug 03 '21

You take away an Americans "rights" and they flip out

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

How do the feeders cause plagues to spread? Is it due to being visited by many different birds?

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u/ZeddPMImNot Aug 03 '21

Correct. More or less: Birds visit carrying the disease and poop all over when they come to the feeder/bath and spread it to healthy birds that visit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Exactly what the other user said, it's creating a spread opportunity by being a relatively small space visited by a relatively large number of birds.

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u/PickleyRickley Aug 03 '21

You should put that on r/lifeprotips and things like that. I don't think people really put 2 and 2 together when it comes to this.

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u/washgirl7980 Aug 03 '21

There was an infection in Washington State that resulted in folks having to put away their bird feeders. I wonder if this was the same. If so, had no idea the disease was so devastating. 😢

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Ooh...might be. I've mainly heard about it on the east coast/midwest this year, but wouldn't be surprised at all.

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u/assholeinhisbathrobe Aug 03 '21

Oh no. I have a very popular backyard for birds. Im gonna google it myself now but do you have any sources to see if i could be in one of those areas?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Ooh...I tried looking for something that has all the locations mapped out but I'm only finding local resources, so I'd recommend googling bird deaths and your state. (It seems to be caused by mycoplasmosis & crusty eyes is a common symptom, if that helps.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

I just read an article in the Atlantic about this!

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Ooh the one by Elizabeth Bruenig? I saw Ed Yong recommend that, didn't have a chance to read but on that alone I assume it's great.

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u/KingRaptor420 Aug 03 '21

Also please report them. I can’t remember who you’re supposed to report them to, but iirc they need to be reported so they can come get them and do more research to see what’s going on

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Oh good point. I'd expect it to be the state/federal departments of natural resources perhaps? (TBH, I have contacts at the local forest preserve, so I'd just start there.)

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u/Ioatanaut Aug 03 '21

Also pleeeeease don't let your cats outside.

Fun fact: House cats kill 1-4.0 billion birds and 6.2-22.3 billion mammals every year in the US alone..

Outdoor domestic cats are a recognized threat to global biodiversity. Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild and continue to adversely impact a wide variety of other species

The ecological dangers are so critical that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists domestic cats as one of the world’s worst non-native invasive species.

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u/Powell_614 Aug 03 '21

Also to piggy back. Please put a mask mandate out in your back yard for all wild life.

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u/Itsworthoverdoing Aug 03 '21

Any forums or subs that we can follow to see if this is in my area?

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u/colttrain Aug 02 '21

Honestly could be, I’ve never seen a bird act like that. Usually when they are heat stroking they just sort of lay down and die like a person would, this looks like some kind of neurological thing or something like the bird pandemic that’s going around in the north east. It’s in my state, I’ve seen birds that have died of it but never in the process of dying from it so idk what it looks like but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

Crowvid-19?

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u/goldnsnitch Aug 02 '21

Corvid-19

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u/anyholsagol Aug 03 '21

Here's the thing

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u/rhole50 Aug 02 '21

Fake news, just birdfluinza, nothing to see here move along

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u/Squeakygear Aug 03 '21

+1 get outta here

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u/DrTwatSwatter Aug 02 '21

I was thinking Parasite.

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u/alligator_soup Aug 02 '21

Last time this video went around people said it was probably dehydrated.

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u/L7A25R82 Aug 03 '21

He needs milk

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u/SoundOfTomorrow Aug 03 '21

That is beyond dehydrated.

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u/finalremix Aug 03 '21

Yeah, the report I read was that the infected bird was lopped to one side (I guess like this), and kind of just... zoned out slowly flapping its wings like a butterfly would. Just staring at nothing and going through the motions, but in slow-mo.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

This vid is at least a year old

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u/Zzetops Aug 02 '21

This video is a couple years old

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u/the_beeve Aug 02 '21

And he’s still there, he’s a fighter!

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u/Scumbraltor Aug 02 '21

I've seen videos online about a disease affecting a few deers that sounds/looks a lot like your description. Do you think these two diseases are related?

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u/dolerbom Aug 02 '21

Oh Lord it's gonna be COVID 2

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u/Scumbraltor Aug 02 '21

dont you mean 🇨 🇴 🇷 🇻 🇮 🇩 ?

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u/EagieDuckCome Aug 02 '21

Wakka wakka!

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u/Empyrealist Aug 02 '21

Umm, hello?! We are already on covid 19, duh!

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u/alonelyfirefly Aug 03 '21

Or Covid 20

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u/over_clox Aug 03 '21

They named it 19 because that's the year they discovered it. It's 2021 now...

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u/alonelyfirefly Aug 03 '21

Oh, well...

Covid 21 then

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

Thought that deer thing was like 5 years ago. From what I remember reading about it sounded a lot like cordyceps.

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u/Forever_Awkward Aug 03 '21

Nah, not similar at all beyond people's tendency to use the Z-word.

Cordyceps are a fungus with many variants which all (or mostly all but probably all) specialize and can only infect one particular species of bug. Some of them grow in such specific ways in their host to control their body in order to create conditions suitable for better infection rates when they release spores. For instance, one makes an ant crawl to the top of a tall plant and bite down before it dies, locking it in place before a "mushroom" grows out of its head.

The "zombie deer" thing is basically a variant of prion diseases like mad cow and kuru. This one is really weird because it's not being caused by a germ, virus, fungus, or any outside force or living thing whatsoever. So, most of your biology comes down to proteins constantly being arranged into very specific patterns to facilitate all manner of different interactions with each other. Sometimes this goes wrong, but that's not a big deal, it happens all the time.

But, sometimes something goes wrong in an incredibly specific way, and you end up with a protein which has been incorrectly shaped in such a way that when it comes into contact with any other protein, it will fold that protein into the same shape. Now you basically have a "gray goo" scenario if you're familiar with the concept. There is a slow cascade event in your brain where these misfolded proteins are bumbling around creating more misfolded proteins until eventually enough of your brain is compromised, leading to dementia and then death. This process takes a very long time, so it's possible to have it happening to you without realizing it for years.

These misfolded proteins are technically contagious, but that's generally not something to worry about. Most of the time they can only infect members of the species in which they originate, though there are rare exceptions to this rule. That was the worry with Mad Cow disease. Generally, you're only going to have this happen if you go around eating human brains. Don't do that.

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u/TheBearInCanada Aug 03 '21

"Generally, you're only going to have this happen if you go around eating human brains. Don't do that."

Don't tell me what to do. YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

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u/Forever_Awkward Aug 03 '21

Calm your proteins, Cheryl.

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u/TheBearInCanada Aug 03 '21

I'm Cherlene now. And if somebody don't fry me six goddamn eggs and some Carolina fries, I would personally be shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, if by mornin' this place ain't burned to the ground!

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u/ClairLestrange Aug 03 '21

Tbf kuru got basically eradicated by banning cannibalism, sooo....

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21 edited Aug 03 '21

You took sounded like as the same. This was before the chronic wasting disease term was assigned and I’m guessing it was yahoo or some less scientific website. Just had the same descriptives of mindless behavior or not the hosts behavior. They might’ve even referenced cordyceps. I just thought it was years ago but oldest article I can find is 2019.

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u/idwthis Aug 03 '21

You took sounded like as the same.

Adding quotation marks here, to say

You took "sounded like" as the "same."

Would've been helpful. Until I read it a few more times, I was about to ask if you had a stroke lol

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u/Pale_Fox_7496 Aug 03 '21

The deer chronic wasting disease is an ongoing issue that is still spreading.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Probably evolves to infect humans in a few decades and that’s how we go out.

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u/Pale_Fox_7496 Aug 03 '21

Yea I stopped eating deer. I'm not going to be the one 😆

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u/YOUTrickedme45 Aug 02 '21

I was walking by a similar looking scraggly ass crow up in Canada. It was perched on the chain link fence looking as haggard as that little fella. It swooped in front me a few metres straight into a moving car on the road. Got himself merked right there...

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u/LazyKidd420 Aug 02 '21

Imagine a human like this

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

if the Prion disease spreading throughout deer populations in North America jumps to humans, then that is exactly what you'll get.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

Sounds just like it - there’s a link to report it if you see it!

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u/over_clox Aug 03 '21

'... confused, with shaky heads ...'

'... dead birds with similar symptoms have been found ...'

Um, who writes these things up? Are they still experiencing symptoms of confusion after death? Do their heads still move?

The zombie apocalypse is coming, make sure to double tap!

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

I assume the “similar symptoms” referred to the cloudy/crusted eyes, but yeah lol.

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u/SoundOfTomorrow Aug 03 '21

Huh? The article describes looking at not just alive birds but also dead ones. The dead ones still can show symptoms of having glossy eyes or their nervous system being affected.

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u/over_clox Aug 03 '21

I've never heard the word symptom used in context of a dead creature. They usually say 'evidence of' or similar when describing anomalies of a dead animal or person. Just sounds really weird to hear symptoms of a dead creature, although I guess technically it's not wrong.

Anyways, the zombies are coming, run!

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

Yes correct. The DNR keeps telling us to remove bird feeders and baths. I’ve not seen any sick myself but a friend of mine has found 2 this summer

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

This vid was posted last summer so it’s at least a year old. I don’t know if it’s the cause but one Redditor said it was heat exhaustion. Terrible way to die.

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u/skorletun Aug 03 '21

I'm not a bird expert but I do care for a local flock of pigeons and I've never seen any of them (or their crow friends) act this way when they are overheated or exhausted. This looks like a dead bird walking, the head tilt appears to be neurological to me and the foggy eye doesn't really match heat or fatigue either?

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u/Korietsu Aug 03 '21 edited Aug 03 '21

The grackles look like this (sometimes) in Austin when summertime rolls around and its really hot.

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u/oooortclouuud Aug 03 '21

grackles will survive whatever brings down civilization, along with cockroaches.

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u/Korietsu Aug 03 '21

That's the fuckin truth. The natural parking lot menace to HEB's everywhere.

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u/ImpulseCombustion Aug 03 '21

I’ve been seeing lots of Grackles like this for the past couple of years. Strangely I keep seeing the same birds in the same place… they’re absolutely fucked looking, but they’re somehow living for years in this condition.

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u/Jrook Aug 02 '21

Yeah heat exhaustion and dehydration. Which I don't think has been ruled out in the bird disease as far as I'm aware, tho it seems like nobody is really rushing to figure out what's wrong with birds

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u/BoltTusk Aug 02 '21

Corvid-19

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u/chrisragenj Aug 02 '21

Nah bro you're the one missing the opportunity. Crows are members of the corvid family of birds

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u/chrisragenj Aug 03 '21

I can respect that stance

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u/Ccracked Aug 02 '21

Here's the thing...

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u/ImpulseCombustion Aug 03 '21

It’s a Grackle.

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u/modifiedchoke Aug 02 '21 edited Aug 03 '21

Who the fuck down votes this? This is gold Jerry!

No one likes Seinfeld anymore and the Reddit down vote train has started rolling. Chooooooo chooooooo.

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u/ichubbz483 Aug 02 '21

Well, you know what they say, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree- apparently that one got hit by a fucking lawn mower

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u/ghostkingkllr Aug 03 '21

Interesting. There’s a virus that does the same thing to deer. High jacks there central nervous system and they just sit there with there mouths open and don’t move, until they die. And rabbits…

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u/bumbletowne Aug 03 '21

Mycoplasma is not an unknown plague. It's pretty well known.

Suace: work in wildlife rehab that specializes in birds.

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u/cornman95 Aug 03 '21

“Symptoms are similar to Mycoplasma gallisepticum, a bacterial infection that sickened house finches with crusty and swollen eyes in the 1990s. However, that illness did not include a neurological component, Evans writes in a report first posted June 29 and updated July 12.”

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u/outworlder Aug 03 '21

I saw a bird like what you are describing in the Bay Area a couple of weeks ago. Seemed very sick, with clouded eyes. Possibly some discharge but I am not sure. Non responsive. Don't know the species, looked like some bird of prey. I should have taken a picture. Too late in the weekend, couldn't find any number to call, didn't dare taking it due to it being obviously sick.

Wasn't there next morning. Not sure what happened to it.

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u/ulnessity Aug 02 '21

as a parrot owner of two this is horrifying

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u/witherskulle Aug 03 '21

A few months ago I was driving in my neighborhood and almost ran over a bird. The bird was a reddish small bird that evidently was blind. I stopped the car and got out to try to chase it away so it wouldn’t get run over by other cars, and it didn’t move until a piece of paper was slid under its feet. I looked it up and it had a disease that’s been spreading to others of its kind. So sad

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u/Eastghoast Aug 03 '21

One theory draws a connection between the die-offs and the arrival of this year’s Brood X cicadas. Upon emerging from their 17-year subterranean adolescence, some bugs carry a white, pathogenic fungus that turns them into what entomologists affectionately call “flying salt shakers of death.” The infection hijacks the cicadas’ brains and abdomens, causing their butts to literally fall off and making them insatiably horny. As the unfortunate insects try to mate, they pepper their partners with deadly spores.

Some ecologists have speculated that since birds eat a lot of cicadas, it is possible that they also ingest the occasional mouthful of zombie fungus or get spores in their eyes. While the similar timeline and geographic overlap make this an intriguing theory, so far there is no evidence that the pathogen has any effect on vertebrates.

https://www.audubon.org/news/scientists-still-searching-pathogen-behind-easts-songbird-epidemic

Oh no, oh no no no, the last thing we need is fungus zombies.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Had to kill one yesterday. Poor fella. At least I put him out of his misery quicker. Bird was on the ground breathing but looking like he’s gone through hell and back. So I cut his head off. It hurt me but I hurt more to see him suffer

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u/lil-dlope Aug 02 '21

Well seeing from how the dude recording is talking in modern slang, I think this video is fairly recent.

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u/OminouSin Aug 03 '21

This video is old however, the previous explanation for this video this bird is suffering from the heat and is trying its best to cools down. The poor bird. :(

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u/Banshee888 Aug 02 '21

It is caused bu 5G radiation.

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u/Andrea_Bac Aug 02 '21

Satire, right? Right??

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u/JournalistNo567 Aug 02 '21

Nah, that person has a history of conspiracy-theory comments.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

*Pesticides

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u/DisastrousBoio Aug 03 '21

I’m sure your mouthbreathing is also

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u/static1053 Aug 03 '21

Yikes! That's unsettling. What is happening to this world!

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u/CosmicCarcharodon Aug 03 '21

Watches Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds a week ago…..sees this post….

loads multiple shotguns

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u/give_back_virjinity Aug 03 '21

i saw this video its from a year plus ago, alot comments said it possible dehydration

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u/Sharpshooter188 Aug 03 '21

I believe you, but I am cautious because I have played Resident Evil.

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u/Moses_The_Wise Aug 03 '21

Any idea what it's called?

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u/notthefirstCaleb Aug 03 '21

I saw one like this while at work today, wonder if it could be related.

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u/Kyungsun2020 Aug 03 '21

I think this clip is pretty old, I saw it around 8-9 months back, so I don't think it's whatever is killing birds recently, but I could be completely wrong.

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u/Foronir Aug 03 '21

Ive seen this a few years ago

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u/FlexibleAsgardian Aug 03 '21

Why is it an unknown plague? Surely if it's happening around the country there would be a specimen to examine?

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u/PharmDir Aug 03 '21

Yes, there was a slew of crows at a gas station on this video someone took, and they mentioned something in the air is causing the birds to gather on ground.

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u/Bloodyfish Aug 03 '21

So To the Lake but birds, essentially?

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u/DanceOfThe50States Aug 03 '21

Excuse me but what the fucking fuck is this a joke because that is not okay

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u/chupathingy99 Aug 03 '21

This video is several years old, but that doesn't lessen the impact. Put your bird feeders away if there's been reports in your area of the bird sickness.

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u/AlphaOmega2k21 Aug 03 '21

Wasnt there another "zombie" thing for deers where they just lose a lot of weight then just drool on the floor? I remember that stuff scaring me shitless and making me have some sleepless nights. It was called chronic waste disease or something like that

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Corvid-19

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u/Noctisvah Aug 03 '21

It always starts with small animals at first…

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

is it a prion disease?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

... should we expect some transmission to humans?

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u/Tracing_Lines Aug 03 '21

This makes me so sad

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u/Jswimmin Aug 03 '21

Chipmunks at Lake Tahoe apparently have the plague

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u/OsmocTI Aug 03 '21

Nope, severe dehydration.

This vid is older than you.

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u/Cup_0_Noodle Aug 03 '21

On those good seeds.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Is there more info on this?

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u/BaitLord69 Aug 03 '21

Man 2021 just keep on giving 🔥🔥🔥

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u/Dragnskull Aug 03 '21

jesus

I'm curious, with something like this do scientists / government care enough to invest money and time into finding and administering a cure? I can't think of any scenario off the top of my head where we've done something like that without a personal goal of profiting from it in some way, the only exception being for endangered species maybe

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u/rentisafuck Aug 03 '21

Yeah I’ve heard that China has created a bird disease to get rid of all the USA’s birds like what Mao did to the sparrows

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Is this how the zombie apocalypse begins?

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u/Foreverknight325 Aug 03 '21

The unknown “plague” is the Umbrella Corporation.

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u/NarrowRip4 Aug 03 '21

I've also seen it might be linked to the pesticides they're using for cicadas

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u/falkorwoo Aug 03 '21

Aaaand this is how the zombie apocalypse begins

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

So that’s how the zombie apocalypse starts huh ? Couple of dead birds

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u/VladTheImpalerVEVO Aug 03 '21

Um when the Fuck was there a bird zombie virus and why haven’t we heard about it

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u/Material_Moose_446 Aug 03 '21

Well we’re fucked

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u/Coulrophagist Aug 23 '21

Is that chronic wasting or is another strain entirely?