Big Agriculture Is Leading Us Into the Bird Flu Abyss
truthout.org
The federal government’s deference to agriculture industry interests has put the US at risk of a public health crisis.
  • dogerwaul [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    i’ve been waiting for this strain of bird flu to reach human-to-human transmission. once that happens we are truly fucked. we didn’t handle COVID and the pandemic is still ongoing. people complained about “shut downs” in the US and there was no such thing lol. name a single state that shut down. name a small town! nobody was prevented from traveling, there were merely recommendations and advisories. anyway, bird flu is gonna be bad. i’m very worried.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    I learned a lot about bird flu by reading this overview. Did you know that every time a major bird flu pandemic occurs, that strain takes over as the new yearly seasonal flu, dethroning the previous?