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An ounce of prevention: Now is the time to take action on H5N1 avian flu, because the stakes are enormous (theconversation.com)
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I really don't want to do this again

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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 5 points 5 months ago

Unless the human mortality rate is much higher than COVID, this is just going to be the same thing all over again. Vaccines take time to prepare and even though this is a flu strain (which should give us a headstart), there doesn't seem to be much happening with this yet (even the US has only just started getting organised with an order of 4.8 million doses, which is a drop in the ocean if their burgeoning outbreak amongst livestock manages to jump to humans). Waiting until we have rampant human-to-human transmission to order vaccines will be too late.