Why a teenager’s bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists \ stacker news ~science

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Why a teenager’s bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03805-4

425 sats \ 6 comments \ @Imyourfed 13h science

I will summarize the article, and didn't use any AI for that.

Governments have still in-stock vaccines from 20 years ago and don't know what to do about it. So how about emptying it on kids to make room to then give freshly printed money to pharmaceutical companies and buy new ones? Also, the vaccines made 20 years ago are not useful since there is no epidemic at all, it is just a random isolated case that has been detected. But how about alerting everyone anyway? This is emotional science after all, it is not rational news. So everyone should remember we are all in this together and you should help the government help you.

A small vaccine, a giant leap for humoneyty.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s33 9h

What a good assessment... 👌 They play with the health and needs of the poor!! I hope they rot in HELL 🔥🔥🔥

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 8h

It’s a worrying development but it doesn’t mean that a new pandemic is imminent, says immunologist Scott Hensley at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At present, there is no sign that the virus — which is related but not identical to the H5N1 virus infecting US dairy cattle — has been transmitted from the sick adolescent to other people.

I wish i could get every day research into Nature... There should be a separate journal for this kind of necessary but not really groundbreaking research. They did not really advance the field here, as far as i know.