• @[email protected]
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    4121 hours ago

    Didn’t 2020 pop off with one of the worst Australian bushfires still ongoing, and then one of the worst wildfires in California/Oregon began? And then, you know… that little pandemic thing? How’s the bird-flu thing been so far this year? Just wondering

    • @Chee_Koala
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      16 hours ago

      I think with the “Sierra Leone declares emergency over mpox outbreak” headline from today, we might tip in to a new record breaking year wikiwiki !

    • @[email protected]
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      1920 hours ago

      Some guy in California fed raw bird flu milk to his cats and killed 2 blinded a third, iirc.

      So…on the way.

      • @Snapz
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        Some guy, you mean RFK Jr. probably. And soon mandatory lunch snack at the public tax voucher-funded Christian school your kids will attend (you won’t HAVE TO go, but the only other schools won’t bee subverted by the voucher… So, up to you bro…)

        • @[email protected]
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          715 hours ago

          Currently cows are the main carrier of interest for one of the two strains of bird flu that are a concern in the US. The viral particles are being detected in their milk. Hence bird flu milk.

            • @[email protected]
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              515 hours ago

              Because you can’t just use up the easy to remember names like that. We’ve had bird flu, SARS, MERS, swine flu, COVID… We might need cow flu to name a different coronavirus in a few years

              • @werefreeatlast
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                514 hours ago

                If you stay about 20’ from a cow, the milker can’t shoot milk in your face. The physics behind it are pretty clear, yes cow flu milk is airborne but with a splash mask and 20’ distance, we’ll have it all under control.