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Amid outbreak? “ The U.S. has documented three cases of humans with bird flu in 2024 “

• Suppafly 2y ago
  Did you miss the whole first part of the article talking about how cows are getting it? Once something moves from birds to cows to people, it can pretty quickly spread among people. Just because we've only had 3 or 4 documented cases in the last year doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of more or that there isn't the possibility of a lot more.
• michaelmrose 2y ago
  Flu evolves quickly and swaps components with other lineages when present in the same infectee. Current stain doesn't spread personal to person at all but has a very high morality rate perhaps as high as 25-50% with treatment.this is 25-50x covid. Hopefully if we do get a variant thereof that passes person to person it is also more like current flus in terms of mortality. Keep in mind that the worst case scenario is similar mortality and community spread. This nightmare scenario could see a lot of systems collapse before we could develop a vaccine. This is the appropriate time to work on mitigation.