The WHO has recommended dropping a component of many flu vaccines because the viruses it protects against appear to have been driven into extinction in the Covid pandemic.

The WHO has recommended dropping a component of many flu vaccines because the viruses it protects against appear to have been driven into extinction in the Covid pandemic.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
    24•9 months ago

    It’s pretty amazing that we as a species have the ability to wipe out diseases. Smallpox, polio, now a flu virus.

    • Bipta
      16•9 months ago

      You’re really going to pat us on the back for letting COVID get so bad it drove a fly strain to extinction? That’s an extreme reach of a flex.

      Also this:

      But a leak from a manufacturing plant could theoretically reintroduce B/Yamagata viruses into the world

    • @PatrickYaa
      6•9 months ago

      We wipe out other forms of life all the time, be it by accident, wilfull neglicence or malice. Why not bacteria/viruses. Gotta have some good with the bad, right?