A RECENT study has confirmed that an H5N1 avian influenza virus isolated from a dairy farm worker in Michigan, USA can spread through the air between mammals

Putting this in news and not doomer because it seems like an important development.

  • Chana [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    This is entirely expected but I would guess that this kind of confirmation is valuable for pushing forward any bureaucracy that could respond.

    Remember when “the adults in the room” actively denied that SARS-CoV-2 could be spread by aerosol and they were telling you to not buy masks and to instead disinfect your produce?

    • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      “NOW THAT WE KNOW MORE ABOUT THE VIRUS… We need you all to come back to the open floor-plan office and spit in each other’s mouths”

      – Basically HR at every corpo petty tyrant fiefdom in 2021