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Highly melanated | YNWA | Health & Science Editor | PhD pathobiologist
For egg-layers, the r-naught was 13—comparable with human measles.

For broiler chickens, it was 6.

For the turkeys, the r-naught estimate was 25. 🤯
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/bird...
October 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A December 2024 study, published in PLOS One, estimated what H5N1's r-naught was during the first year of the U.S. outbreak. The researchers examined three types of commercial poultry: egg-laying hens, broiler chickens for meat production, and turkey farms.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Measles, one of the most contagious diseases in history, has an r-naught of 12 to 18. If a measles-infected person steps into a crowded train car on which everyone else lacks immunity, the virus could infect 12 to 18 people.

www.thelancet.com/action/showP...
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Turkeys are more vulnerable to bird flu than chickens. Fans of the movie Contagion should recall a metric called r-naught, or R0. It predicts how many unimmune people (or birds) among an average group will catch a virus after an infected person (or bird) shows up.
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ALT: a woman is writing on a white board that says flu-1 smallpox-3 pollo
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October 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yep, Florida copied 'em. The original opened in Shanghai in 2016. The Florida one opened a couple years ago.
October 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The reason is always money. Tron 2 didn't fully bomb. Critics and domestic audiences disliked the sequel—no doubt. But it grossed $400 million worldwide, which was a lot for 2010.

Most of the gross came overseas, namely from the Asia Pacific region. The theme park ride is based in China.
October 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM