• Rhaedas
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    154 days ago

    Damn, we just learned something from a recent illness…but what was it? I guess it will come back to us in time.

    Oh, that’s right. 15 days. Stay the course. Thousand points of light.

  • @[email protected]
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    54 days ago

    Well, yes. The usual way pandemics start: Some new virus “crossbreeds” with an established one.

  • @[email protected]
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    34 days ago

    For those wondering how tf 2 viruses merge:

    “For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can exchange genetic material. This is known as genetic shift,” Michael previously told Fortune. “That can form very new viruses [and] cause epidemics.”

  • @BoobaAwooga
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    34 days ago

    Reminder that the bird flu has been circulating for awhile now so this isn’t something that will just happen tomorrow.

      • @BoobaAwooga
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        14 days ago

        Yeah and you and I might meet tomorrow. Super unlikely but possible.

    • HubertManne
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      44 days ago

      I was actually thinking about a reply mainly around that this is always the case with viruses but I think your right. Its the increase in bird flu that makes it more of a possibility than before.