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'God help us all': Infectious disease experts panic after Trump FDA cancels vaccine meeting (www.alternet.org)

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Despite this being the worst flu season in 15 years, President Donald Trump's administration has abruptly cancelled a critical meeting that infectious disease experts were counting on to make sure the latest flu vaccine is the strongest.

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

And this is at a time when Bird Flu is raging in US farms unchecked. The conditions are perfect for a major flu pandemic.

This isn't just about seasonal flu, there is a slowly unfolding crisis that could lead to a deadly flu pandemic. It will be pot luck how deadly bird flu is, but it has been incredibly deadly in birds. It had not been deadly in cattle yet - but it could just take 1 mutation to become so. And the farms are also a perfect incubator for it to transfer into humans.

With Trump and Musk disassembling public health infrastructure we are less likely to stop a pandemic, less likely to detect it when it gets going, less likely to contain it and now less likely to be able to vaccinate to save lives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Disease isn’t contained by borders so - ‘Thanks’ from the rest of the world.