"World ‘unprepared’ for next pandemic as countries fail to agree on sharing information, tests and vaccines"

“If a new pathogen emerged today, the world remains largely unprepared for it.”

I often think about this! Especially if I have to go to the dentist or doctor. It's like: people, you could've taken the tip from covid and upgraded your air quality and airborne infection control, but you're not gonna, are you? You're just going to wait till the next one kicks off, and then be starting almost from scratch again like last time.

H5N1 flu is airborne, and I wouldn't be astonished if that gained human to human transmission soon. But there's lots of possibilities.

(Actually, H5N1 probably does have human transmission now I think, but only at high viral load - there was one case report where a mother seems to have caught it from her sick child after extended close proximity caring for the child, and the mother had no known contact with poultry. But I mean like, if it learnt to go human-to-human at levels similar to say measles. We'd be in a pickle then.)

If the next one is airborne again, at least _some_ of us will know what to do :-/

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/05/talks-stall-on-who-pandemic-treaty-global-response-disease-outbreaks

#NextPandemic

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PartijvoordeDieren/115979877313131225

#h5n1 #nextpandemic #volgendepandemie #vogelgriep #birdflu

The Pandemic Agreement is a milestone: now it is time for action in national capitals

Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01178-X/abstract

#pandemicagreement #accesss2meds #health #COVID19 #nextpandemic

Les US sont-ils en train de concevoir sur leur sol la prochaine pandémie ?
#nextpandemic

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/03/21/grippe-aviaire-robert-f-kennedy-jr-consterne-les-scientifiques-en-proposant-de-laisser-circuler-le-virus-parmi-les-elevages-de-volailles_6584329_3244.html

#chronicWastingDisease #CWD

’Don’t call it zombie deer disease’: scientists warn of ‘global crisis’ as infections spread across the US

A contagious, fatal illness in deer, elk and moose has taken hold in the US and is now reaching other countries. While it has not infected humans yet, the risk is growing

.. CWD is not caused by bacteria or a virus, but by “#prions”: abnormal, transmissible pathogenic agents that are difficult to destroy. ..

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/chronic-wasting-disease-spread-zombie-deer-global-us-aoe

#pandemic #nextpandemic

Bird flu spreads to Maryland
https://www.alternet.org/bird-flu-2670799825/

#H5N1 #BirdFlu #NextPandemic #RepublicansOwnThis #GOP #PublicHealth #Pandemic #USPol

I’m sure Donald Trump is ready—he’s gonna deport Bird Flu with its family.

First human death from avian flu reported in U.S.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/06/first-human-death-from-avian-flu-reported-in-us

#H5N1 #BirdFlu #AvianFlu #NextPandemic #PublicHealth #USPol #RepublicansDidThis #DonaldTrump