A new study provides evidence that a spillover of avian influenza from birds to dairy cattle across several U.S. states has now led to mammal-to-mammal transmission – between cows and from cows to cats and a raccoon.
  • nothx [he/him]
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    4 maanden geleden

    Greeeeaaat… really excited for the lack of government response to this.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 maanden geleden

    lol it hasn't even been 5 years since the last pandemic started

  • LaughingLion [any, any]
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    4 maanden geleden

    so far the version thats jumped to humans from chicken farms seems to be mild so we might have lucked out.... the previous version had a 52% mortality rate in humans

    yes, thats correct. the previous version of h5n1 had a mortality rate of 52%