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A New Pandemic — Brace Yourself Cows With Bird Flu Might be a Bad Omen
Now a human contracted Bird Flu from a cow we should probably be worried. Our chances of survival aren’t great
The survival rate for humans with Bird Flu isn’t great, it’s about 50:50 life or death.
Cows with bird flu have been in the news over the last couple of days. And worse, cows passing bird flu to humans.
Bird flu is pretty deadly so I wonder if this needs to be higher up my list of things to worry about.
Will another pandemic get us before World War III, the global climate change, famine, or any other disaster?
I can’t foresee the future, but I have three pandemic-problems on my radar.
bird flu — N5N1
Identified in birds in 1996, it has circulated since then, devastating bird populations.
- It occasionally jumps species to mammals, including humans.
- Human to human transmission is what we really need to worry about but that isn’t a risk just yet — it doesn’t do that.
- It is currently a particular problem among dairy cows in the…