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…. The more chances to make a more complete zoonotic jump and spread between humans. Yay.
Per WHO, it has a case fatality rate of 53%....
W.H.O update from last week
| As of 5 January 2023, a total of 240 cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus have been 
reported from four countries within the Western Pacific Region since January 2003. Of these
 cases, 135 were fatal, resulting in a case fatality rate (CFR) of 56%. The last case was reported from China, 
with an onset date of 22 September 2022 and died on 18 October 2022. This is the first case of avian 
influenza A(H5N1) reported from China since 2015. >

That means it will likely never become a pandemic. The problem would be it constantly popping up >

I'm just some dummy but isn't that exactly what is happening with birds? Granted humans can learn to take precautions and avoid the virus in a way that birds can't but it seems deadly to birds and they are still passing it around. >

People gonna hog the eggs like they hogged toilet paper >

TP is a safe investment cuz the price is almost guaranteed to go up, and it is stored easily and doesn’t expire. Plus it’s fun to stack . >

I misread this at first and thought you said it was a fun snack. >

It’s a good source of fiber >

A bit powdery, though. If you're lucky, you can sometimes find some with what seems like chocolate on it, so there's that. >

Meanwhile, my family thinks Biden is pressing the "raise egg prices" button in the oval office. >

I truly believe most of the older population in the US is experiencing late stage lead poisoning. >

I’d be very interested in comparing voting patterns to lead gas phase-outs >

I believe there is research showing that crime decreased within a decade of the discontinuation of leaded gas. >

And abortion legalization/birth control proliferation >

But it was when the government offered unleaded abortions that crime really started to decline. >

I laughed, I cried, I hurled. >

And everyone applauded >

I caught the slow clap. >

That'll take the lead out of your pencil. >

Please God please make the global crisises stop >

This is our fault. We raised 119 billion chickens last year alone. >

"our", "we" >

Yes, we humans. It's our human created problem. >

Some of us don’t participate. >

I do >

Relevant, edited from a previous comment:
Perhaps the biggest risk of disease concerning livestock and poultry is influenza A - the only influenza virus known to cause pandemics.[9]  It is hypothesized that every influenza virus that causes pandemics in humans is derived from avian influenza in aquatic birds.[10]  Normally this wouldn't be an issue for us.  The infected wild birds usually don't get sick, and the virus doesn't easily spread amongst humans.[11]  But industrialized animal agriculture has changed that.  One scientific review writes:

Hosts such as swine and gallinaceous poultry that are favorable for transmission and efficient replication of both zoonotic and human viruses can serve as mixing vessels and pose the greatest risk for the development of novel reassortments that can replicate competently in humans.[12]

In other words, livestock and poultry are great at making it easier for viruses to spread amongst humans.  As to why this is, one author explains:

...virtually every effort to further industrialize broiler [chicken] biology has resulted in the emergence of new risks and vulnerabilities. Intensive confinement combined with increased genetic uniformity has created new opportunities for the spread of pathogens. Increased breast-meat yield has come at the expense of increased immunodeficiency.[13]

It is likely that animal agriculture enabled the 1957 Asian Flu, 1968 Hong Kong Flu,[14] bird flu,[15] and the 2009 swine flu.[16]  Of these, bird flu is the cause for most concern.  In past outbreaks, the case-fatality (CF) rate was 60 percent, although one study suggests that if it became a larger pandemic, it would have a median CF rate of approximately 23.5 percent.[17]  It is thought that the 1918 Spanish Flu may have infected one-third of the global population and had a CF rate of 2.5 percent.[18]  If bird flu were to mutate in such a way that it was anywhere near as contagious as Spanish Flu, with a CF rate almost 10 times higher than Spanish Flu, the results would be apocalyptic.  As two authors wrote in a WHO publication:

We can't scare people enough about H5N1 [bird flu].[19]

References >


one study suggests that if it became a larger pandemic, it would have a median CF rate of approximately 23.5 percent

MEDIAN CF RATE OF 23.5%??? >

But people will just bitch about having to pay more for eggs while funding the industry that will just keep chugging along and creating the environment where this will eventually happen. >

I understand where you’re coming from but most people are too busy surviving to take serious action against an industry they don’t understand. It’s the same story with gas and the fossil fuel industry. >

It is much cheaper (but less convenient) to eat a plant-based diet.  Many of the poorest people in the world barely eat any animal products because they are too expensive.
But yeah, most people have no idea what is actually done to produce eggs or milk or meat. >

Good point, I won’t argue that vegetarianism is overall a healthier, more economic diet option. You’re correct. But people are uneducated, tired, and propagandized against that diet choice. No?