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Kind of wild how we have a potential pandemic brewing in Amerikkka that no one in power seems to even acknowledge exists. (hexbear.net)

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[-] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

are other countries even acknowledging it

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

The HPAI H5N1 outbreak in cows has been limited to the US so far

The Australian government put $100 million towards H5N1 related measures last month, but that's more because they haven't done much about it because H5N1 isn't present on the continent (yet)

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

canada has a slightly different strain, but still H5N1, it is circulating there in bird flocks and showing up in wild mammals and now a human: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/canadas-national-lab-confirms-h5n1-hospitalized-teen

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Imagining that as a ticker scrolling across the top of the screen in the mid game of Plague Inc

[-] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

No. At least not where I am.

This just makes me surer that my late 2019 covid was really covid (all the hallmark symptoms) and the only reason it was taken seriously was China calling it out. Or at least it had been brewing a lot longer.