https://www.nature.com/articles/438406b
This is from 2005
China claims to be well on the way towards vaccinating every domestic bird in the country against avian flu. The bold scheme — which would mean inoculating some 14 billion birds — was announced on 15 November and comes in response to outbreaks that animal-health officials say are dangerously widespread. On 16 November, China confirmed its first two human cases of bird flu, one of which was fatal.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8327827/
A new strain developed in 2013 and was essentially eradicated by developing a new vaccine for the birds.
Why aren’t we doing so in the US??? We have an effective vaccine!
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24155545/bird-flu-vaccines-h5n1-avian-flu-cows
However, despite seemingly having an effective vaccine in hand, as of late April, the USDA is still not pursuing bird flu vaccination as a disease control strategy. “While USDA is exploring the possibility of developing a poultry H5N1 vaccine to stock and use in an emergency, we are not moving forward with a HPAI vaccination program at this time,”
The biggest sticking point is around trade. The US exported more than $5 billion in poultry meat and products on average every year for the past three years. The USDA enters into trade agreements with each individual country it trades with, explained Upali Galketi Aratchilage, a senior economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Each agreement outlines specific biosafety and production requirements that both countries agree to follow. The USDA said, in an email to Vox, that many of those agreements do not allow bird flu vaccination.
Every single bird that is infected gives the virus another million chances to mutate into something 100x worse than COVID. And we are not doing it because of the fucking cost to GDP.
Because Americans don’t believe in disease until they are literally witnessing it firsthand at which point they become absolutely certain that there was never anything they could have done about it
And then after the disease’s host is cured or dead, they go back to not believing in disease at all
If it’s not happening right in front of them right at this exact moment it isn’t real.
I mean that’s your average burgerlander, but I think the reality is much worse
In 2023, the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service began testing five vaccine candidates. According to the USDA’s website, studies show the candidates provided near 100 percent clinical protection in chickens. (The USDA has also started to “assess the potential to develop” an H5N1 vaccine for cows.) The USDA has not released further information about the clinical trials.
We have vaccines, but they won’t do it because it would cost money.
Because Americans don’t believe in disease until they are literally witnessing it firsthand
50% chance they don’t believe it then either
I’m reminded of those people slowly drowning in their own mucus lying in a hospital bed and still not believing that covid was real
Happened to my mother who was a worker in 2020. Said she saw people die of Covid who would not believe they had it. Their families wouldn’t, either. Now when they die of Covid even the hospitals say it’s something else to deny it. I don’t know how to not be doomer about this tbh.
Because Americans don’t believe in disease until they are literally witnessing it firsthand at which point they become absolutely certain that there was never anything they could have done about it
The angloid mind believes in one thing: “only things that effect me personally, matter. Screw everyone else.”
Americans won’t even vaccinate themselves and you expect to care about their food?
I know it might be naive of me, but I atleast expect our non-partisan governmental agencies to do their fucking jobs and take a longer view of the world than the current news cycle.
If they think temporarily stopping poultry trade to sign new trade deals is gonna cost the economy, wait until COVID 2 hits you fucking buffoons.
And depending what kind of bird flu becomes human-to-human and how it mutates, we’re looking at muuuch higher fatality rates than COVID. Winter is right around the corner too.
wait until COVID 2 hits you fucking buffoons.
They don’t care about that, only short-term gain.
We know this because COVID already is number two (that’s why it was named SARS-CoV-2 when it got an actual name). We were warned with the initial contained SARS outbreak in 2003, and could have had vaccines ready to go for 2020 (which had about 85% similarity and still would have helped) but nobody would fund it even though we had 17 years!
We don’t vaccinate chickens against Salmonella like the rest of the world which is why we wash the natural waxy coating off them and need to refrigerate them, and why we can’t eat raw eggs safely.
“But have you considered the potential side effects of the vaccine that I just made up? No? I didn’t think so. Now shut up so I can go force my workers with insufficient PPE into a plague barn with their mobile gas chamber carts to kill 100 million animals (all real btw), as is dictated by the most efficient economic system there is!”
Force-feeding them antibiotics isn’t vaccination? /s
