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Rhiannon12866

(240,367 posts) Mon Apr 21, 2025, 12:45 AM Apr 2025

Scientists warn what future bird flu mutations could mean for people - 60 Minutes [View all]

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks. - Aired on 04/20/2025.

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Scientists warn what future bird flu mutations could mean for people - 60 Minutes [View all] Rhiannon12866 Apr 2025 OP

Horrifying. Trump has fired the CDC bird flu researchers who were working to protect us. SunSeeker Apr 2025 #1

Exactly! The same way he addressed the Covid epidemic - he doesn't care if Americans get sick or die Rhiannon12866 Apr 2025 #3

Experts are quite alarmed and worried it could be worse than Covid. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #2

He couldn't care less about what happens to the American people, as with Covid he knows he'll get special treatment Rhiannon12866 Apr 2025 #4

Trump will make money again on a pandemic, and he loves the power over life and death. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #5

Good description - and one of the most frightening that we've ever faced, he has no regard for the American people Rhiannon12866 Apr 2025 #6

We can always count on Trump to make everything worse. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #7