I’ve seen chatter about this pick up in the past sleepless, but I’m struggling to discern whether it’s just clickbait or not.
Lots of stories about mammal transmission, mink farm outbreaks and one human case in South America.
Ask HN: Should we be concerned about the current H5N1 outbreak?
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#3It's just like when you enable poorly implemented static analysis vulnerability scanning and the underlying pedantic linter rules start triggering thousands of false positives.
I am worried about egg prices though. /s
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#5Get scared and depressed and doomscroll and watch the news more so we can sell you more stuff. Yes.
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#6No. It's not viral in the sense COVID is. Minor epidemics around the world are possible but not anything really serious.
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#8No, BUT we MUST be concerned by the new-old-classic https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198
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#9We should really stop keeping animals in such high density. We should realize this practice is dangerous to us.
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#10Most media outlets downplayed COVID in early 2020. Now they've over-corrected and report on every minor outbreak and stoking fears for views and ad revenue.