the bird flu human vaccine only has 20 million doses stockpiled in the US
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Worry not. There won't be high demand.
Watch as bird flu kills every mammal on Earth except for humans.
Bill Gates is on stage with Ari Melber in a two hour long MSNBC "special broadcast" that was actually created just for him. He has an inscrutable expression and his tone of voice seems almost to be one of exasperation. He says "Look, it is bad and tragic that all mammals on earth appear to be dying off but..."
Most infected animals have recovered after isolation, and few cattle deaths have been reported, the USDA said.
At least there's this... for now.
It's good for the cows, but doesn't that make it more likely to continue to jump species?
Jumping species isn't always a bad thing, its just a thing that happens. Pretty much everybody who works around animals consistently probably already has had birdflu or cowflu or swineflu but the infections didn't "do" anything and died out in the host.
There's the idea of "dead end hosts" where an infection can spread outside of a species where it spreads, into a species where it just kinda dead ends and can't jump out again.
Kinda my point right?
Though, I guess "didn't 'do' anything" wasn't exactly the most correctest phrase to use. My point was that cross species infections are pretty common but it doesn't mean that the bug is leathal and requires COVID levels of concern.
A person who worked around dairy cattle caught the bug from the cows, had some noticeable but not life threatening symptoms, but is okay.