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IT News 4 hours ago (Received 3 hours ago) • mastodon

The risk of a bird flu pandemic is rising - This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsl... - technologyreview.com/2024/11/2… #biotechnologyandhealth #thecheckup #app

The risk of a bird flu pandemic is rising

Human cases in the US are on the rise and the virus is turning up in cows and dairy products. Luckily, we have some vaccines ready to go if needed.

^{Jessica Hamzelou (MIT Technology Review)}

Nanook 2 hours ago friendica (DFRN)

They're going to keep tweaking it until they can get an effective human depopulation tool, or at least that's their hope. And if the virus doesn't kill you, they'll no doubt come out with a new gene modification MRNA vaccine that will.

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