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Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind.

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[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Banning animal agriculture is the only way to prevent this. Animal exploitation is why we get most zoonotic pandemics, and continuing to allow to to happen will result in more suffering for everyone else.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, dealing with the cause instead of dumping the costs of dealing with the consequences to somebody else is something humanity is very bad at.

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