Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing?
Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing?
Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind.
Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind.
Spoiler: they're not.
I don't know, I'm sure we can be doing more but it seems like there is at least vaccine development and such starting pretty early so that seems positive to me.
There's no development needed. We got a vaccine as this is not a new strain. Flu vaccines just in general aren't that great, so you need good coverage and enough doses. You can probably tell where I am going with this, I am not sure any country is procuring or producing enough vaccines for the worst case scenario.
Alright......but, have you not been paying attention the past 4 years? Half this country (USA) REFUSES to get vacinated. I feel like at this point earth has just had enough of humans. So now it's like "ok, covid killed 1 million of them. Lets do that.....again."
And here's the thing, humans as a collective don't learn. There are comics from the early 1900s making fun of the people who refuse to wear masks to help against an often forgotten about global pandemic that killed like 20% of people globally. Your body would turn blue, because your insides filled with fluids, and you literally drown from with inside your own body. Morgues and hospitals were overflowing with bodies. People still refused to wear masks, and take medicine.
Now I don't trust these precautions to work, until they are vast and manditory. I'm at the point where people need to be treated like children. Actually thats not true. 4 years ago when the vaccine for came out, my niece was 8 years old. She got the vacine of her own decision, and said "that was nothing!". Which is true.
So basically I think some children are more mature than vast swarms of the general public, and this means simply releasing a vaccine isn't NEARLY enough.
We spent all our public health goodwill on COVID. A sizable portion of the population will never accept any further restrictions for public health reasons. A smaller but still concerningly large portion will not get any new vaccines because of this.
The world learned nothing from Covid, so I’m not optimistic.
As someone disabled by covid, I think the world even regressed by covid.
Pre-covid we didn’t have half the population denying that a common virus existed or refusing to get vaccinated.
I tried arguing with an anti COVID vaxer recently and pointed out that in my country there were 14 deaths linked to the vaccine, but over 65M doses administered, which means that you're significantly more likely to die in the car on the way to get vaccinated than from the vaccine itself - but apparently I'm the fool for trusting government collected figures. I don't understand how they think the government is hiding all these supposed deaths.
Psssshhhhh! That's not true. That's not true at all!
Businesses learned they could absolutely fuck EVERYONE with false inflation, and reworking the rules for how businesses work.
Spoiler: it's not in your favor.
Banning animal agriculture is the only way to prevent this. Animal exploitation is why we get most zoonotic pandemics, and continuing to allow to to happen will result in more suffering for everyone else.
Unfortunately, dealing with the cause instead of dumping the costs of dealing with the consequences to somebody else is something humanity is very bad at.
Or at the very least we could accept lower yields and stop feeding animals so many antibiotics that they make up the majority of all use. Less overcrowding, less diesease and less antibiotic resistance.
its gonna be covid all over again
You mean working from home, seeing wildlife in my city, having an excuse to not spend time with people who annoy me, day drinking.
Oh no please anything but that
You mean extended unemployment, seeing people turn medical fact into political beliefs, not having the opportunity to spend time with the few people that don't annoy me, and day drinking?
Please sir may we have another
I’m afraid, depending on the administration, it might be hard to protect myself and others with what was previously considered common sense …vaccination, protective equipment, etc