Scientists tracking the spread of bird flu are increasingly concerned that gaps in surveillance may keep them several steps behind a new pandemic, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen leading disease experts.
Many of them have been monitoring the new subtype of H5N1 avian flu in migratory birds since 2020. But the spread of the virus to 129 dairy herds in 12 U.S. states, opens new tab signals a change that could bring it closer to becoming transmissible between humans. Infections also have been found in other mammals, from alpacas to house cats.
“It almost seems like a pandemic unfolding in slow motion,” said Scott Hensley, a professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania. “Right now, the threat is pretty low … but that could change in a heartbeat.” The earlier the warning of a jump to humans, the sooner global health officials can take steps to protect people by launching vaccine development, wide-scale testing and containment measures.
I am very much concerned about this issue. Let me throw paint on Stonehedge that way others will be concerned about this issue.
I’m so excited for us to have two simultaneous pandemics.
That’s okay, it will clearly be fake just like COVID and it will also be over in a few months like Elon predicted about COVID and you can fix it with horse paste and a UV light up your ass, so you don’t need a mask or anything like the COVID vaccine that killed everyone who got it within a year, as predicted.
It depends when it launches and goes… viral (sorry…). If there’s a dem in office, it’s a real pandemic and we aren’t doing nearly enough and 10,000 people are dying every second, you lib monsters!! If it’s a repub in office it’s fake news poopvirus and why are you trampling on my poopeating freedums??
I’m sure we will take all the lessons we learned with the COVID pandemic and apply then to this new threat.
Lol.
The earlier the warning of a jump to humans, the sooner global health officials can take steps to protect people by launching vaccine development, wide-scale testing and containment measures.
Anyone else not feeling optimistic?
If you are constantly pessimistic, spending so much time on places like Lemmy is probably at least part of the problem.
I have been constantly pessimistic since 1977.
Do you have a website link for someone who constantly attacks a person who isn’t talking to them?
Because I’m getting really tired of you harassing me.