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are other countries even acknowledging it
No. At least not where I am.
This just makes me surer that my late 2019 covid was really covid (all the hallmark symptoms) and the only reason it was taken seriously was China calling it out. Or at least it had been brewing a lot longer.
The HPAI H5N1 outbreak in cows has been limited to the US so far
The Australian government put $100 million towards H5N1 related measures last month, but that's more because they haven't done much about it because H5N1 isn't present on the continent (yet)
Imagining that as a ticker scrolling across the top of the screen in the mid game of Plague Inc
canada has a slightly different strain, but still H5N1, it is circulating there in bird flocks and showing up in wild mammals and now a human: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/canadas-national-lab-confirms-h5n1-hospitalized-teen