https://xcancel.com/PeterHotez/status/1873162034201960946
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A Bluesky post
So we are screwed?
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It was ment as a fun post, but as some people are genuinely scared. H5N1 is nasty BUT human infection is EXTREMELY rare. There have been less than 1k cases in 20y. You are 80 times more likely to die from lightning strike. If you don't carry lightning rod around you should not worry.
https://subium.com/profile/volberg.bsky.social/post/3lf5uqfukze2u
Bluesky is funny. The libs are always so excited to shit on Trump - they didn't even shit on the OP and he really deserves it. He's impervious to knowledge and reason.
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Peter Jay Hotez (born May 5, 1958) is an American scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control. He serves as founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also Director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and Endowed Chair in Tropical Pediatrics. He also serves as a University Professor of Biology at Baylor University.
Imagine the US has a surprisingly large number of "isolated" cases of bird flu and the experts are still try to pacify us.
I had a iffy situation like I badly cut my hand slicing a bagel - I'd do self-diagnosis even though I have zero medical training. Instead of me just going to the ER - I'd do my best to answer the tricky question: "Can I avoid going to the ER?" It seems to me any hospital in the US from the smallest to the largest could potentially be ground zero for that plague. And anybody in that hospital from a clueless patient to a doctor who should really know better could be a carrier.