cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26197829
British Columbia teen had no underlying health conditions and had been exposed to dogs, cats and reptiles, officials say
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241112230713/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/canada-bird-flu-teenager-hospital
Absolutely unfortunately, H5N1 tends to have the highest mortality rates amongst the youngest brackets and the lowest mortality amongst the oldest brackets. But I can tell you what, if kids start dying it might be hard to stop parents from Christopher Dornering^Steven Paddock Congress.
Doubt it, these people are already fucking up their kids with Covid and don’t care at all
I’m struggling on where to begin explaining the cataclysmic difference between the effects on children and young people of COVID at any stage of its evolution and a human-to-human capable H5N1 strain, but it’s really really fucking different.
without fail