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minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·3 days agohttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03805-4#%3A~%3Atext=A+strain+of+avian+influenza%2Ctransmit+from+person+to+person.
minus-squarechuckleslord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·3 days agoThat isn’t observed human to human transmission. That’s a “mutation favorable for human transmission” observed in a case without a clear animal source. Those are two very different things. Good lord, scared me for no reason.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03805-4#%3A~%3Atext=A+strain+of+avian+influenza%2Ctransmit+from+person+to+person.
That isn’t observed human to human transmission. That’s a “mutation favorable for human transmission” observed in a case without a clear animal source. Those are two very different things. Good lord, scared me for no reason.