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Isn't this the one that had like a 50% mortality rate?
Isn't person-to-person transmission incredibly rare? The R value is significantly below 1 for humans. Lots of factory farms will probably have issues, but other countries have had similar outbreaks of H5N1 among livestock and have always had limited human cases.
it will be rare until it isn't
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I am once again asking the admins for Pathologic emotes
Pick a few images and ping whyesseff
are other countries even acknowledging it
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)
Imagining that as a ticker scrolling across the top of the screen in the mid game of Plague Inc
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
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Turns out the fakest part about Roland Emmerich movies wasn't the aliens or the moon crashing after all, but rather that anyone with power would actually give a shit about any of it happening.
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