107
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
107 points (99.1% liked)
News
23430 readers
3141 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's important to recognize this virus is not new and has been circulating the world while being studied for years. Over the past 20 years, less than 900 cases have been identified in humans worldwide, mostly in southeast Asia, and with rare exception it was someone who caught it from an animal but who didn't transmit it to other humans.
While there's always a chance H5N1 could mutate to become more transmissible between humans, right now there's no reason to think that. If it did, god help us. But it hasn't. Yet.
The scary part is that it has been spreading between mammals though, most instances have been between sea mammals like seals but now it looks like it’s spreading between other mammals too
I did read that...it looks like it killed a bunch of seals, but cows seem to barely be affected. Well I hope they're including this strain in this year's flu vaccine ..
Good thing is that mrna should work on it too. That's one good thing that came out of covid.
In 2008, the official WHO estimate for the case-fatality rate for the outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza was approximately 60%.
Canadians said it probably more like 14-30%.
Don't worry about shutting down the country. The amount of corpses in the roads will do it for us.
So you're saying that if we can get a vaccine made, we may not have to put up with the anti-vaxxers for much longer? What do you want to bet they'll have 'anti-shutdown parties' or something similarly foolish?
We can dream.
So it's going to be a repeat of the Spanish Influenza. Awesome
Spanish Flu (should be called Kansas Flu because that's where the first case was reported), killed .6% of the population in the US. Covid was .15 %
This would be magnitudes higher.
Losing ~20 million would have a significant economic impact. That would be like losing 2 NYC or 2 Dallas/Ft. Worth from the country. Considering that the group (right wing lower middle class) that was determined to not follow mitigation efforts or push others to work without them we’d lose a lot of workers in the transportation and service industries, particularly in the south.
or just one nyc and one dallas/ft worth
Avian Flu, Pandemic Boogaloo