NYC bird flu: 7 cases detected, Hochul shuts poultry markets
NYC bird flu: 7 cases detected, Hochul shuts poultry markets
Fuck. My heart almost stopped. I thought they meant people, 7 cases of people with bird flu
That shit's gonna get wild if it makes the leap
There have been 66 cases in the United States in 2025. It just hasn't worked out how to spread human-to-human yet.
You are completely correct. We haven't had a plague recently enough that anyone has any idea what it's like.
For Ebola, H1N1, SARS, we treated them like an urgent global emergency, because that's what it is. I think Covid gave people a false sense of security, because it had a 3% case fatality rate even before the vaccine.
Last I heard, the H5N1 case fatality rate was about 30%. It's hard to say what a new strain's fatality rate would be. But that's what it was, the last time I checked.
And there are entire dairy farms where every cow has it, and they're just going in, milking the cows, getting snot on them, and going home.