Today I've read about a bunch of farmers who probably had H5N1 but refuse to test, cats getting infected by drinking raw milk on farms, and a dolphin dead from it

Honestly not feeling very optimistic about this one. Wish I could trust any of the soothing things governments or media are saying about it but I won't fall into that trap again now I've seen how they behaved during the still ongoing covid pandemic

EDIT: And I should clarify I wasn't going out of my way to see H5N1 news, this is just stuff that has come across my feed organically in the 1 hour I've been awake lmao

So 2020 was covid, 2022 was monkeypox, 2024 might be bird flu. Hm. Love too live in the era of novel pandemics every 2 years
@eniko I'm terrified what 2026 is gonna have tbh
@DisasterMillennial @eniko Calling it now - Mad Cow Disease...first spotted in bats.

@eniko @DisasterMillennial What about Swine Flu first detected in bats?

Wait, that's the plot of Contagion, my bad.

@AT1ST @DisasterMillennial i need to rewatch that one for some good old chuckling at how naive people were
@AT1ST @eniko @DisasterMillennial
excuse me, but I am going to nominate chronic wasting disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease
Chronic wasting disease - Wikipedia

@fritzoids @eniko @DisasterMillennial Chronic Wasting Disease... finally discovered to transfer in the wild to bats. :p