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"How Close Are We to the Avian Flu Outbreak Escalating Into a Pandemic?"

https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/01/16/how-close-are-we-avian-flu-outbreak-escalating-pandemic-49241

A nice and readable article. I'll only quote one paragraph:

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Where are we now? As Dr. Jeremy Faust, a Harvard Medical School physician, warns, “our current circumstance is akin to a game of Russian Roulette — and there have never been more bullets in the chamber.”
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#birdFlu #avianInfluenza #mooFlu #zoonosis #zoonoses #pandemic #pandemicene #animalFarming #goVegan

How Close Are We to the Avian Flu Outbreak Escalating Into a Pandemic?

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the brink of human-to-human transmission, but predicting whether a virus will cross that threshold remains an uncertain science.

American Council on Science and Health
Jan 20 at 7:27pmWeb
Show threadCeceliaJan 23
@veganpizza69 Flattening the curve doesn’t seem like enough (re: SARS-CoV-2). We need to nip it in the bud. That would take radical action that might hurt profits a little.
Show threadVeganPizza69 ⓋⒶJan 24

@helianthropy

In some ways it's similar to global warming. There's adaptation (dealing with climate chaos and warming) and there's mitigation (reducing GHG emissions).

Mitigation is more effective and less effortful overall, but adaptation is easier early and grows exponentially difficult over time.

People in this civilization tend to prefer adaptation over mitigation. Part of that is because it's reactive, so it doesn't require using our brains to plan ahead and organize. But it's also because of people having optimism: collectively - optimism that "someone will figure it out" and individually - "it won't affect me, I'm special!"

Mitigation for both global problems, Anthropogenic Global Warming and the rise of the "Pandemicene", requires an end to animal farming.

#climate #climateChange #pandemicene #zoonosis #animalFarming #goVegan #bigMeat