Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind.

  • trevor
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    6 months ago

    Banning animal agriculture is the only way to prevent this. Animal exploitation is why we get most zoonotic pandemics, and continuing to allow to to happen will result in more suffering for everyone else.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      56 months ago

      Unfortunately, dealing with the cause instead of dumping the costs of dealing with the consequences to somebody else is something humanity is very bad at.

    • @CheeseNoodle
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      46 months ago

      Or at the very least we could accept lower yields and stop feeding animals so many antibiotics that they make up the majority of all use. Less overcrowding, less diesease and less antibiotic resistance.