Summary
A study reviewing 1,500 research papers found that 90% of pregnant women who contract bird flu (H5N1) die, with 87% of their unborn babies also dying.
Most surviving babies are born prematurely.
While human cases are rare and usually result from direct contact with infected birds, the findings highlight the vulnerability of pregnant women, who often face exclusion from vaccine trials and public health programs.
Experts stress the need for pandemic preparedness and ethical studies on vaccine safety in pregnant women as H5N1 continues to spread globally.
Wow, so clearly the party who values the unborn will take strict and swift measures against H5N1 and advocate nation-wide for vaccination once it’s out…
… right?
Best I can do is bitch about masks
on the contrary. if the woman dies you no longer have to worry about her getting an abortion. so the bird-flu is pro-life in that way.
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Ah, shit, dude, you’re right, I forgot that talking about one of the most traveled-to and traveled-from countries with 330 million people whose government is going to be an anti-vaxx disinformation superspreader, is likely to restrict vaccinations, and is therefore liable to make an H5N1 pandemic substantially worse globally is off-limits for discussion as long as the study in the article was performed by an Australian doctor. Me and my US-centrism, grr.
Am I still half asleep and missing something? That 90% fatality rate is huge, why is this not bigger news?
It’s not like it’s 90% of CEOs. Just their brood mares. COVID was less discriminate.
shhh, they’re saving the good part for later when we’re in pandemic 2.
“While human cases are rare and usually result from direct contact with infected birds”
and currently, possibly by drinking raw milk
Yeah, but only raw chicken milk, and hardly anyone drinks that stuff.
wait, milk of raw chicken or raw milk of alive chicken?
Yes.
good.
phew we dodged a bullet there
I’m a bit confused about bird flu’s spread. I keep seeing that getting sick tends to happen with exposure to infected birds, but does that mean that it can still be transmitted from human to human as easy as other flus?
Two of my childhood friends are both pregnant right now. Fuck.
The disease is still very rare, and human-to-human transmission has never been recorded. Right now, the main risks are infected birds or raw cows milk, (because apparently cows can also transmit it). The big concern right now is that transmission between different animals seems to be getting more common, which means the virus is changing. And it could 100% make the jump to human-to-human transmission at some point soon, especially as cases increase; Every new patient is a chance for the virus to mutate and begin spreading.
It’s one of the reason that the raw milk conspiracy theorists have become so dangerous recently. They’re quickly going to become the new COVID anti-masker super-spreaders if the virus mutates because they won’t stop drinking raw milk.
oh dear
Hey what about us straight white adult males?
