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Kind of wild how we have a potential pandemic brewing in Amerikkka that no one in power seems to even acknowledge exists. (hexbear.net)
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[–] regul@hexbear.net 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Isn't person-to-person transmission incredibly rare? The R value is significantly below 1 for humans. Lots of factory farms will probably have issues, but other countries have had similar outbreaks of H5N1 among livestock and have always had limited human cases.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

so-far

Once they hit the hog farms, because pigs are very close to us medically, an incredibly infectious human to human variant is just a matter of time.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hog flu! Hog flu! Hog flu!

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

WHO LET THE HOGS OUT?

Flu, flu, flu

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

feral-hog biggus-piggus Hoggers covid-cool

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

it will be rare until it isn't