National voluntary recall of cat foods because #BirdFluBegins.
As influenza surge making news in various Usian cities.
Of course, #H5N1 is an influenza.
At some point, #BirdFlu is gonna make the leap to full adaptation for inter-human transmission.
If it happens during a post-holiday winter surge, we might not even know we're dealing with zoonotic spillover, because flu looks like flu until you bother to sequence.
Unless you bother to sequence.
(Also, lots of other things look like flu, but we can at least tell covid and RSV, when we bother to test, from flu.)
As of December, two in five Usians have been vaccinated for seasonal flu. The lowest uptake in the past six years.
Meanwhile, our government continues to arm a rogue national government that bombs an airport while the head of the world's global health agency is on the tarmac.
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