• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    There isn’t an available bird flu vaccine that we could manufacture fast enough to make it available even if we started right now. This is assuming that they let us have it instead of telling us to tough it out and take some vitamin C.

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      15 hours ago

      There are actually several already ready to go, just not done because… Well, Bird Flu hasn’t made the jump.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1_vaccine

      And, as long as the civilize nations of the world keep doing the rational thing, they’ll be able to limit the damage to just the US.

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        12 hours ago

        You didn’t even read that, did you?

        H5N1 continually mutates, meaning vaccines based on current samples of avian H5N1 cannot be depended upon to work in the case of a future pandemic of H5N1. While there can be some cross-protection against related flu strains, the best protection would be from a vaccine specifically produced for any future pandemic flu virus strain. Daniel R. Lucey, co-director of the Biohazardous Threats and Emerging Diseases graduate program at Georgetown University, has made this point, “There is no H5N1 pandemic so there can be no pandemic vaccine.”[34] However, “pre-pandemic vaccines” have been created; are being refined and tested; and do have some promise both in furthering research and preparedness for the next pandemic.[35] Vaccine manufacturing companies are being funded to increase flexible capacity so that if a pandemic vaccine is needed, facilities will be available for rapid production of large amounts of a vaccine specific to a new pandemic strain.[36]

        There is no guarantee that any “pre-pandemic” vaccines will work.

        But then, you think you can vaccinate against bacteria…

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            10 hours ago

            No. No you can’t. Again, you really do not understand how any of this works. Pneumonia isn’t even a cause, it’s a symptom. I can be caused by fungi, viruses or bacteria. Saying you can vaccinate against pneumonia is like saying you can vaccinate against a runny nose. That’s literally not how anything works.

            But please do keep digging.