H5N1 has been found in commercially available milk – but gaps in testing of cattle and humans are hampering effort to stop virus
Archived version: https://archive.ph/3fdP3
Well if you don’t test, you’ll have less cases.
crosses a few test results off of a list with a sharpie
And now there’s even less!
Well, yeah, and testing would cut into profits and possibly / probably require culling, which would cut into profits even more.
God bless capitalism! 🫠
That worked for the pandemic! We got lower numbers of Covid because we stopped testing for it!
That’s the same logic as racists:
“If everyone would stop talking about shitting on minorities, nobody would know the minorities are being shat on!”
Well duh that’s american health policy 101
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Though its spread everywhere … indicates that it might start jumping to humans soon
While this is certainly a possibility, and we should be prepared for it, there isn’t any indication to think it will suddenly become transmissible between humans this time. There have been over a thousand confirmed cases of H5N1 in humans over the past 20 years, and all were caught directly from an animal and not spread between humans.
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The mortality rate is high, but the sample is also heavily skewed toward low income, rural farming populations in developing countries like Indonesia, Egypt, and Cambodia, where outbreaks of 10-30 cases are not uncommon. Survival rates among the few cases in the US and Europe have been 100%, with one death in Canada
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Because it’s been transmitted to humans over a thousands times over the past 20 years, and this upswing isn’t particularly worse than previous outbreaks, it’s just in the news more because it’s happening in the US. There have been massive avian flu outbreaks before in other countries
if a human is infected with a normal human flu and gets exposed to h5n1 at the same time, stuff could go really bad really quickly
“We must have a government which protects us from threats and that’s why it’s cool when they buy sick jet planes and stuff.”
“What about diseases?”
“Nah bro that shit’s BOR-ING”
Capitalism: “If it don’t make profit, we ain’t for-it.”
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You can absolutely bet this strain is being accounted for in the annual flu vaccine that will be released in the fall
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It’s already been developed, it would just need to be produced. The timeline on mass producing a flu vaccine is a matter of a few months since the infrastructure to produce hundreds of millions of doses each year already exists
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It feels like you’re picking quotes from articles that are lacking context. Yes, the US has a stockpile of several hundred thousand H5N1 vaccines, and no, that wouldn’t cover everyone, but the capacity exists to ramp up production quickly and have hundreds of millions of doses available to the US public within 3-4 months.
Yes, producing 4-8 billion doses of any vaccine is going to take time. Obviously the country that develops, tests, and manufactures a new vaccine is going to fund production for its own people first. That “
elite” dig is just not necessary.
Ooof.
The Classic American solution of waiting until a bunch of people die before we consider acting because to act now means a lot of companies would lose money.
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Lol this happened in Michigan with Covid-19
There were like 10 reported cases total because hospitals would only send for a test with a solid match up of symptoms and if the patient had recently traveled from China.
Then when they opened up testing for everyone after CA and NY started going up in flames, it went from 10 to like 1000 cases reported every day.
All in a span of like two weeks.
Went from meme to pandemic so fast Whitmer closed public schools faster than the schools themselves could.
Oh and then Trump got mad and refused to send aid or allow harsher restrictions lol.
Doesnt Bird Flu have like a 10% mortality rate? Thats kind of a big deal.
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Holy dry goods batman! I’m off to the supermarket to buy 3 pallets of toilet paper to start my new “arbitrage” business because I’m a fucking asshole like that.
