It comes as the US deals with an H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle that has seen the virus spread from mammals to humans for the first time.

  • alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s not like experts haven’t been sounding the alarm on future pandemics for a while. One president listened and another disassembled his works here we are.

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      6 months ago

      I’m fully aware. I was just really, really hoping we’d manage to dodge the bullet long enough for sanity to fully regain control over politics. Tbh, I’m surprised this was in Mexico and not the US. Between the seemingly unrestricted farm outbreaks and the idiots drinking raw milk specifically because the CDC (or FDA, can’t remember which) told them not to led me to believe that if it happened, it’d happen here first.

      Edit: yes, I’m aware that the US has had multiple human cases of H5N1. This case is unique, however, because they were not exposed to any known disease vector prior to contracting it. That is what I was expecting to happen in the US.

      • 100_kg_90_de_belin @feddit.it
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        6 months ago

        the idiots drinking raw milk

        The health influencers such as Saladino and Paltrow helping turn back the hands of the clock and throwing common sense out the window