Type A H5N1 influenza has been spreading through animals and some people in the United States. There have been 70 cases in that country since during the past year, according to the World Health Organization, though researchers and studies suggest that’s likely an undercount.
In Mexico, the girl was in serious condition in a hospital in Torreon in the neighboring state of Coahuila, the health ministry said in a statement Friday. It said she had initially been treated with an anti-flu medication.
It was not known how the girl contracted the virus. Investigators were testing wild birds in the vicinity of the girl’s home, the statement said.
Carnists really believe that they can build endless torture/murder factories pouring out oceans of blood, shit, and disease without any consequences.
Don’t look up
close US border please.
I wonder if someone with gif skills can make one of the final scene in that movie where Bond is standing there waiting for the missiles to hit and one missile is tariffs , another is the next pandemic, and another is a breakdown of the geopolitical world order.
I wish I had the skill but I don’t.
On the bright side the MAGA people won’t take the vaccine once it’s created
It’s too dangerous. The world has to take this seriously.
What are the odds a non us country invents it this time and our government makes it illegal to import into the US. Or even if it is invented here, RFK will make sure nobody can get it
No one will get it for free* more likely than not at all
It wasn’t the US last time but ok. Neither of the two big MRNA vaccine producers were US.
Tell me you’re USanian without telling me.
Ah, I can see how my wording makes it sound like I was implying that. I actually work in healthcare and am acutely aware of the decline in the US pharmaceutical industries ability to innovate relative to other countries
Thank you for giving me hope for the future.
i always check to see if human-to-human transmission has occurred yet or not… worried of the day when it will. i hope it doesn’t happen. we are not going to survive anything deadlier than COVID. we are still in the midst of the pandemic and people act as though shit went back to normal. i hear “back during covid” all the time in conversations and have to dissociate so i don’t correct them with an emotional outburst. there’s simply no way we make it through a virus with double-digit mortality rates without long-term societal and financial damage.
back during covid
Few people mean this literally. We all know covid is still around and will be quite possibly forever. What it means, depending on context is “during covid lockdowns” or “during covid restrictions” or really just 2020.
It’s not a pandemic anymore, it’s endemic now. Get both your shots every year now. Covid isn’t the new flu, it’s flu’s new buddy.
Covid isn’t really flu (or more specific in_flu_enza) his new buddy, but more like flu’s new competitor. Agree with you on all the rest, get your vaccines people.
I just got it last week again, thanks to the vaccine it was just like the first time, 1 shitty day, 1 horrible day and then it was gone
The Canadian teen mutated to a human to human form, but she did not spread it forward.
It’s coming. We just keep rolling the dice.
thanks for letting me know. i just read about it now. damn, that is alarming. at least it did not spread or come into existence… that is not good.
What could possibly go wrong(er than with covid) with the host country slashing science and health organisations while their chief health moron suggests to just drink milk?..
Okay we had flu from bats, now we have flu from birds. Which othet animals fly? Could be important to predict the next flu.
Swine flu
I’ll believe it when pigs fly
“Should I, ahh, write the check, sir?”
“No.”
That’s a symptom? Crazy
Bat -> Bird -> Bug
The health ministry said the risk to the general population from the virus was considered low.
They’ll say that until a long time after the risk is no longer low.
There’s no particular reason to believe this was spread human-human.
No, but it’s undoubtedly coming.
“Young child in Mexico has novel influenza” was Swine Flu’s start. So I always get a little nervous reading about it.
The slightly better news is that compared to COVID, influenza sucks at spreading, so our non-pharmaceutical interventions are liable to stall it out pretty well.
Rest in peace.
She’s not dead.
Not yet. I guarantee she’ll die some day.
This virus has incredibly high fatality compared to others, she was still hospitalized in critical condition in Durango when the news broke yesterday. If she does survive then I’ll be filled with surprise and joy, but I’m not betting on it. People need to know the stakes at hand.
