"The San Francisco public health department found two cases of H5N1 avian flu at a live poultry market and DNA traces in wastewater, but there are no signs of public exposure or illness. Two chickens at a live bird market in San Francisco tested positive for H5N1 avian flu last month, authorities announced Monday."
The tldr is that Spanish Flu had an extremely high case fatality rate (50–85%) in isolated communities that had no resistance to it, and that no human communities have any resistance to H5N1 (because it's never infected humans before.) So if it ever does make the jump and become significantly contagious, it could be very bad news — possibly as bad as "half the population of the planet dies" bad news.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 25.4 ms ] thread"Why the New Human Case of Bird Flu Is So Alarming"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/opinion/bird-flu-case-res...
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The tldr is that Spanish Flu had an extremely high case fatality rate (50–85%) in isolated communities that had no resistance to it, and that no human communities have any resistance to H5N1 (because it's never infected humans before.) So if it ever does make the jump and become significantly contagious, it could be very bad news — possibly as bad as "half the population of the planet dies" bad news.