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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
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To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
@ProPublica This may be how the American experiment in democracy ends, with vast segments of the population dead from an avian flu variant that causes people to shit on each other.
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.
The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak. Here’s how we did.
https://www.propublica.org/article/methodology-bird-flu-outbreak-ohio-indiana?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Data #Research #Science #Health #PublicHealth #BirdFlu
@ProPublica this is amazing. I was emphasizing about the data hoops and chuckled at the end.
I would suggest these changes to USDA's initial response to bird flu. The unique mutations from Howe's Hens are key. When bird flu is first detected in an area feed Genlab data into Nexstrain in a deliberate attempt to find an unique identifier/mutations. You don't know if this is farm zero. Thus, backtracking if it is not farm zero will help you paramatize models, response(s), etc. 1/
@ProPublica These will be important as we paramatize model,etc. In next steps. Also not to say/forget it came from somewhere.
@ProPublica why do u have to test - this is a known fact - see covid
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