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Kind of wild how we have a potential pandemic brewing in Amerikkka that no one in power seems to even acknowledge exists. (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Isn't person-to-person transmission incredibly rare? The R value is significantly below 1 for humans. Lots of factory farms will probably have issues, but other countries have had similar outbreaks of H5N1 among livestock and have always had limited human cases.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

so-far

Once they hit the hog farms, because pigs are very close to us medically, an incredibly infectious human to human variant is just a matter of time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hog flu! Hog flu! Hog flu!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

WHO LET THE HOGS OUT?

Flu, flu, flu

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

feral-hog biggus-piggus Hoggers covid-cool

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

it will be rare until it isn't