Experts say current US outbreak is unlikely to end without intervention with further mutation of virus likely

Summary

A new H5N1 bird flu variant has become “endemic in cows,” with cases detected in Nevada and Arizona, raising concerns about human transmission.

Experts warn that without intervention, the outbreak will continue, but Trump has cut CDC staff and halted flu vaccination campaigns.

The virus’s spread coincides with a severe flu season, increasing the risk of mutation.

The administration has also stopped sharing flu data with the WHO and shifted its containment strategy away from culling infected poultry, raising fears of inadequate response.

  • @[email protected]English
    112•10 hours ago

    Aw shit, here we go again.

    Calling it now: we have another pandemic during Trump’s current term.

    Conspiracy theorists will go “isn’t it weird there’s always a pandemic while trump is president, must be the Democrats/Jews/Illuminati/“The Regime” controlling everything, Plandemic am a right?”

    Couldn’t possibly be Trump removing all safeguards against pandemics…

    • @[email protected]
      17•5 hours ago

      When it’s in California, it’s “God’s wrath”, when it’s under Trump, it’s “just a thing that happens, nothing to be done.”

    • @CitizenKong
      42•10 hours ago

      I hope it will be called “Trump plague” or something this time around.