Raw milk enthusiasts are dead set on being infected by the H5N1 aviary flu virus by drinking contaminated and unpasteurized cow milk.
  • rubikcuber@feddit.ukEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Let me guess. These are the same people who refuse vaccines with miniscule mortality rates, but are demanding milk infected with a virus that has more than a 50% mortality rate in humans? 🤔

    Also, how is intentional getting infected to aquire immunity better than doing nothing at all? I mean, just don’t worry about it. If you get infected then you’re either dead or immune, and if you don’t get infected you didn’t need that immunity anyway. Plus, you’ve saved money by not buying your weirdo raw cow juice.

  • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Anti-science has gained too much traction in recent years, I doubt USA will survive if H5N1 starts spreading from human to human.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Covid has a mortality rate of about 3% while H5N1 has a mortality rate of about 56%.
      If it starts spreading from person to person and it has an r value similar to Covid, we’re fucked.

      • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Probably not. If a virus is too deadly, it kills its hosts before it can spread. That’s why SARS didn’t turn into a pandemic.