c/politics · by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world · 1y

Bird flu could merge with seasonal flu to make mutated virus that could spread among humans, CDC warns

https://fortune.com/well/article/bird-flu-h5n1-2024-2025-seasonal-influenza-vaccine/

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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Number of flu cases in Britain has spiked. Bad winter ahead

TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

Glad I got my kids their flu and covid shots a while back. This is gonna be a bad year.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 15 pts · 1y

Damn, we just learned something from a recent illness...but what was it? I guess it will come back to us in time.

Oh, that's right. 15 days. Stay the course. Thousand points of light.

ATDA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

The next four years are just going to be another Rick and Morty episode aren't they?

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Well, yes. The usual way pandemics start: Some new virus "crossbreeds" with an established one.

eran_morad@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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BoobaAwooga@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Reminder that the bird flu has been circulating for awhile now so this isn’t something that will just happen tomorrow.

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It might just happen tomorrow.

BoobaAwooga@lemmynsfw.com · -1 pts · 1y

Yeah and you and I might meet tomorrow. Super unlikely but possible.

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com · 4 pts · 1y

I was actually thinking about a reply mainly around that this is always the case with viruses but I think your right. Its the increase in bird flu that makes it more of a possibility than before.