Comment on Lack of bird flu testing may be hiding true spread of virus on US farms
protist@mander.xyz 5 months agoThe mortality rate is high, but the sample is also heavily skewed toward low income, rural farming populations in developing countries like Indonesia, Egypt, and Cambodia. Survival rates among the few cases in the US and Europe have been 100%, with one death in Canada
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 months ago
Thank you for the helpful additions there.
Knowing that it’s already been possible for the virus to make the jump, and that there is an upswing of the virus overall, does make it seem quite likely that it will make another jump again soon.
Is there a reason you think it unlikely that once it does so, it will just immediately stop there and not undergo human-to-human transmission?
protist@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Because it’s been transmitted to humans over a thousands times over the past 20 years, and this upswing isn’t particularly worse than previous outbreaks, it’s just in the news more because it’s happening in the US. There have been massive avian flu outbreaks before in other countries