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We've had cows, goats, dolphins all recently suffering outbreaks of this. The fact of the matter is that it has already figured out a way to jump to and spread among mammals in general, so going from other mammals to humans is likely only a matter of time.
And with the rate of spread and that fatality rate.....yikes. You're looking at an extinction level event right there.
If this turns into another pandemic, it's going to make covid look like a mild cold by comparison. And if you thought lockdowns were bad with covid......
Yeah, I'm a wee bit nervous.
I laughed out loud when you said extinction level event. Come on now.
Trump said the same thing about covid. It's no big deal. It'll go away soon. Nobody's going to die from it. Look at how well that turned out.
Bird flu in humans has a fatality rate of over 50% in humans. By comparison, Covid has a fatality rate of <3%.
Covid caused 2 million deaths in the US alone, with a fatality rate of <3%. What the hell do you think would happen with a disease that spreads just as easily if not more so and a fatality rate where half of the people who get it are going to die?
Not to mention that COVID damages the immune system and we've been letting it spread like wildfire opening the floodgates for another virus to come in and take advantage. H5N1 in a population with an already damaged immune system could be catastrophic.