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the very article you linked says, in the Overview section: around 60% of humans known to have been infected with the Asian strain of HPAI A(H5N1) have died fro
by PostOnce 4y ago
the very article you linked says, in the Overview section:
around 60% of humans known to have been infected with the Asian strain of HPAI A(H5N1) have died from it, and H5N1 may mutate or reassort into a strain capable of efficient human-to-human transmission.
- munk-a 4y agoYea - one upside of extremely deadly diseases is that they have problems hitting pandemic levels due to how quickly hosts die off - the "best performing" diseases are rarely fatal but often come with serious long term effects so the host can spread it around a fair amount before their system gets it under control.
- kuhewa 4y agoThere's no guarantee of that pattern though because transmissibility and lethality are not always tightly coupled. E.g. there's no reason a pathogen can't have traits favouring heavy presymptomatic transmission but also progress to death rapidly at some point.
- lamontcg 4y agoThere's still room for a pandemic to be at least 10 times worse virulence than COVID while still managing to be highly transmissible since that is what happened with 1918. And instead of predominantly killing the elderly it went after 30 year olds and babies as well.