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The mitigations to limit the spread of H5N1 are the same mitigations to limit the spread of SARS: primarily ventilation and air filtration. Where indoor air quality is insufficient, locations are densely packed, or there is otherwise an elevated risk: high-filtration masks should be used.

This shouldn’t be hard. We’re on year five of this now. There are indoor air quality standards available for this exact scenario; we’re way overdue to require they are implemented.

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@yosh That is far from enough, maybe it k's good enough for humans, but it is much more common in birds and poultry. For them you more need to isolate them from wild birds and take precautions when going to them. No one wants to have all their birds killed.

I think for humans it is more important to keep away and try not to handle birds especially dead or ill birds. Since that is still the main way it infects humans, the confirmed human to human transmission is still very limited to my knowledge so the precautions you list may not be of the biggest help against specifically h5n1.
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@erk Even for paultry and other livestock the most important mitigations are ventilation and filtration. Animals don’t get sick via apparition; they need to breathe clean air, just like us.

Though I’d say, densely packed environments full of live stock count as “high risk”, and so yeah PPE should definitely be used.

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@yosh In areas where there have been the virus such as where I live there have been a couple of times where it has been forbidden to have poultry under open sky which we usually have. We don't have a well ventilated room because it is limited how much they spend there awake.

There was a culling like 15ish kilometers away from where I live not long ago but they did not make it forbidden to habe the poultry outdoors this time.

In my mind it is just in great contrast to Covid19 since with that it was no issue just being outside out on the countryside where I live.
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