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Wait so the guy who had bleeding eyes wasn't severe?

Edit: Read the article, this headline is semi-clickbait.

Article indicates this is the first severe case related to a 'backyard' (i.e. smaller farm or self-farmer range of size) farm.

Sooooo nothing that new aside from the bit that bird flu is still around TBH.

It's not surprising in it's own way, we are somewhere in a migratory season so these things will move around a bit more.

Not saying Bird flu doesn't concern me a lot, I'm just frustrated by the 'oh this isn't new except the person got it from their backyard coop rather than some more industrial-ish farm'.

Edit to Edit:

Ok, I guess this is the first 'technically' severe case. Not sure what the details are but at TBH I'm not a doctor so...

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No. The "bleeding eyes" were just busted capillaries. It's a super common symptom you can get just from sneezing too hard†; it's happened to me --- the specific "bleeding" symptom that patient had --- a bunch of times.

† I'm not saying that's what happened to him, just that it's not some freaky rare "crying blood" thing.

It’s surprisingly common. Additionally, it can develop as a secondary symptom when temporary neurological impairments induce self-exposure to YouTube comments sections.

How related to the bleeding ear syndrome from listening to certain types of music?

Some people hold their head at an angle and confuse one for the other.

I haven’t researched that but I have read there is significant comorbidity with a low tolerance for “kids these days.”

While I can appreciate the sentiment, there's some ol'timey music that defnitley makes my ears bleed and has been known to make a Martian get all explodey

We’re talking broad-stroke statistics here.

Can confirm, having been coughing for the last week enough to do this to my eyes. Was pretty alarming actually, but turns out to be common, it's gone now.

No. It's not super common.

I don’t know how to quantify “super common” but it’s considered “common” in the literature. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3702240/

My wife works in medicine. Severe in medicine basically means ICU.

That terrible flu you had that one time where you could barely function and were puking multiple times would be mild in medicine.

Tell me about it. First time I was “very” ill from the flu, the doc was nonchalant. He was all, “yeah, this isn’t uncommon”. I was bed ridden for 2 weeks and wasn’t really 100% for almost 3months after.

Yep, the flu kills tens of thousands every year. CDC says about 36,000.

and it makes sense when you think about it. doctors in a hospital see the whole gamut, from people with an ear infection to someone in a fatal car accident. “bleeding eyes” isn’t severe at all lol.

Severe means “i’m going to die unless i get medical attention very soon”.

And this is the structural dynamic that degrades doctor’s bedside manner and makes them appear nonchalant in the face of suffering.

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