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I learned about it from a guy on Bluesky that posts stuff off Bloomberg - "MEXICO PATIENT DIED AFTER CATCHING NEW STRAIN OF BIRD FLU: WHO".

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WHO confirms first human case of avian influenza A(H5N2) in Mexico | Reuters

June 5 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Wednesday said it has confirmed a fatal case in the the first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with avian influenza A(H5N2) in Mexico.

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WHO press release

Human infection caused by avian Influenza A(H5N2)- Mexico

A 59-year-old resident of the State of Mexico [was] hospitalized in Mexico City and had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

It's 202X, election year

Biden vs. Trump

There is a deadly disease rapidly spreading everywhere

Mass riots when?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Probably after everyone gets back from traveling for summer vacation

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Oh fuck you got summer break travels and vacationing Europeans...

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Whooping cough on the rise, along with measles, and whatever those "seasonal allergies" are that people have had since December...haha...lol. lmao.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

lathe-of-heaven the october surprise will be Biden getting bird flu

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

They both get bird flu and die. RFK rises from the ashes after he got a single delegate and is the default winner

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

It was the worm’s plan all along.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

he's immune due to a compound in the worm's saliva

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The victim had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals, WHO said.

screm-aaaaa

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

porky-happy "What are you alarmists going on about? There is no need to do anything, it only affects birds!

Ok, it affects mammals, but I'm not doing anything because it's not dangerous to them.

Ok, it's dangerous to them, but I'm not doing anything because it doesn't transmit between them.

Ok, it transmits between them, but I'm not doing anything because not to humans.

Ok, to humans, but I'm not doing anything because it's like a mild cold.

Ok, it's killing people, but I'm not doing anything because...I don't care, make me money"

distress

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

A few days ago I said it's too early to start worrying about this.

Now it's time to start worrying.

I still think there's maybe a 70% chance this just fizzles out, but 30% is plenty of reason to start topping off the pantry.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

alarm bells

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Aight time to expropriate some N95 boxes from work...

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago
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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I may be missing a joke here, but in case you're not making a joke, WHO is correct. The World Health Organization. This announcement is coming from them.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The joke is that they called you Shirley.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Waiting to react until we have a tweet from an epidemiologist telling us how alarmed we should be on an ordinal scale

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