Top virologists sound the alarm on bird flu and plead with world leaders to prepare for another pandemic

I thought there was an effective bird flu vaccine that was being given to chickens and wild birds.

Ugh, do we really need Trump + Pandemic again?

If we all die from the bird flu can we die after collectively doing the chicken dance?

Torture and murder of non-human animals <---> Torture and murder of human animals.

But I guess the carnists gotta have their sandwiches. \s

I just hope it kills a lot more Nazi antivax idiots this time

Scientists: we have some good news and some bad news on the pandemic front.

Public: Gimme the good news first.

Scientists: We're going to solve the housing crisis really quickly.

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"Top virologists raise alarm" ..... that didn't help last time. People and government won't take notice or want to take action until we see people with blood coming out of their eyes and dying in the streets, and even then, everyone will be more worried about the economy than in the body count.

The fucknut RFK will tell the AmeriKans to drink fish tank cleaner or bleach and shove a UV light down their throats. When this things slams into the USA, Krasnov will continue to fail.

I don’t wanna get my hopes up so fear-mongering aside, how actually likely is any of this?

Because I keep remembering that humans are notoriously bad at future prediction.

the case mortality rate is, by far, one of the worst we've ever seen for an influenza. https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/wpro---documents/emergency/surveillance/avian-influenza/ai_20250131.pdf
we already have a vaccine for it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1_vaccine
don't panic but be educated https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5CyVi4UzKxE

In the U.S., RFK has promised to personally consume every dead bird he finds on the side of the road.

I have a buddy who is a virologist. He sends me shit all the time about bird flu. The gain of function tests on it is wild. Also, note that we have seen this shit coming since 2012

Fouchier, R.A.M., et al. (2012). "Airborne transmission of influenza A/H5N1 virus between ferrets."

Published in: Science

Summary: Demonstrated that a small number of mutations could allow H5N1 to spread via respiratory droplets in ferrets.

Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1213362

Herfst, S., et al. (2012). "Airborne transmission of influenza A/H5N1 virus between ferrets."

Published in: Science (companion to Fouchier’s work)

Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22723413/

Imai, M., et al. (2012). "Experimental adaptation of an influenza H5 HA confers respiratory droplet transmission to a reassortant H5 HA/H1N1 virus in ferrets."

Published in: Nature

Summary: Kawaoka’s lab showed that reassortment of H5N1 with pandemic H1N1 genes could enable airborne spread in ferrets.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10831

Zhang, Y., et al. (2013). "H5N1 hybrid viruses bearing 2009/H1N1 virus genes transmit in guinea pigs by respiratory droplet."

Published in: Science

Summary: Chinese researchers found that hybrid viruses combining H5N1 with H1N1 pandemic genes could spread between mammals.

Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1243362

National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) Reports (2012).

Summary: Initially recommended redacting details of GoF studies due to bioterrorism concerns, later reversed.

Link: https://osp.od.nih.gov/biotechnology/nsabb-reports/

Yeah, and this time masks will be illegal.

Future historians will say that Donald the dumb was a plague spreader.

Meanwhile my country's most powerful public health official: "vaccines are dangerous because they train viruses to be stronger, we should instead simply infect as many birds as possible"

The US will end up with the highest fatality ratio than any other country and Trump will still blame Biden and Hillary's emails

Just feel bad for the birds ;( not treated with any kind of decency or respect

Paywall. Archive.org link

Time to stop all testing immediately so that there are no cases

Not now

Well that drinking raw milk is paying off, congrats. Someone should strap RFK Jr to a chair and make him drink gallons of infected raw milk.

I'm all for trash talking the circus of Trump and RFK, and anti-vaccers, but anyone doing so while still eating animal products is a hypocrite.

Thankfully the US has a president who is deeply experienced in pandemic management and bringing society together in common cause so I should manage ok. 😭

When is this coming ?

How to prepare for this shit again? I guess I can start by storing some masks, and a lot more food.

Any advice or thoughts? I can work from home fulltime, and grocery deliveries is possible.

Uh oh... Please don't tell me I was correct about another pandemic...

Don't worry, just inject bleach! It worked last time. /s

I wasn't expecting my bingo card to fill up so fast.

This Week in Virology talks a bit about this at the 10min mark TWiV 1214: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode webpage: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1214/

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twiv/TWiV1214.mp3?dest-id=25528

Also worth bookmarking the CDC summary... For as long as it's up. https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html

COVID2 Electric Boogaloo

A lot of innocent people would die, but there could also be some big Ws if you know who and crew all kicked the bucket by dying due to the virus or ODing on bleach and ivermectin early, rather than after four years. Thumbing our noses at mother nature by slashing health departments and the WHO contributions are just asking for trouble.

Can’t wait for the “that’s gay and fake” crowd to act like nothing is happening and if it is it’s Klaus Schwab’s fault.

Donald and HHS: A1 said fake news. This is Obama’s fault.

There isn't going to be another pandemic this soon after COVID. Pandemics happen about every 100 years. Pretty much everything happens in cycles and is predictable based on historical patterns. There isn't going to be another pandemic this soon after COVID.

Red counties first.

The article is behind a paywall. What does it say?

When you look it up it says the government has a vaccine stockpile but you can’t get it

How does this site charge $29/month for a subscription? That’s insane!

BINGO!!! what did I win?