To the editor: As a retired public well being and emergency drugs doctor, I need to thanks to your latest articles concerning the fowl flu (H5N1), most lately these articles by Instances reporters Susanne Rust and Melissa Gomez. (“Despite warnings from bird flu experts, it’s business as usual in California dairy country,” Nov. 26)
The mix of a mutating and doubtlessly virulent virus, industrial animal agriculture, a poorly immunized and extremely vaccine-skeptical human inhabitants and an incoming presidential administration whose members have proven contempt for science is a witch’s brew for a pandemic that would make COVID-19 appear like a stroll within the park.
Please proceed your protection of what may develop into a matter of life and dying for thousands and thousands of people and different sentient beings.
Fred Leonard, M.D., Saddlebrooke, Ariz.
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To the editor: Nice! A flu pressure that within the latest previous killed half of the people confirmed to have been contaminated is now present in cows and is reportedly infecting the employees. It may evolve right into a pressure that may infect and unfold effectively amongst people.
In response to this, these operating the dairy farm your reporters visited are mainly saying, “Meh, nothing to see right here.”
Our conceitedness and greed are astounding. This flu pressure, if it takes off, may make COVID-19 appear like the sniffles. But simply after 1.2 million People perished within the final pandemic, it appears to be like like we couldn’t care much less about one other one.
Do we have now a dying want or what?
Mike Aguilar, Costa Mesa
