To the editor: As a retired public well being and emergency drugs doctor, I wish to thanks in your latest articles concerning the chook flu (H5N1), most just lately these articles by Instances reporters Susanne Rust and Melissa Gomez. (“Regardless of warnings from chook flu consultants, it’s enterprise as normal in California dairy nation,” Nov. 26)
The mixture of a mutating and probably 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 might make COVID-19 seem like a stroll within the park.
Please proceed your protection of what may turn into a matter of life and dying for tens of millions 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 working 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 seem like the sniffles. But simply after 1.2 million Individuals perished within the final pandemic, it seems to be like we couldn’t care much less about one other one.
Do now we have a dying want or what?
Mike Aguilar, Costa Mesa
