Amid the noise, this is worth looping back on.
This year, most flu shots will be different.
Because we have eradicated one of the major influenza strains entirely. Gone.
The strain was a casualty of Covid-19 measures (social distancing, masking, lockdown etc.)
This is an unalloyed good, & worth celebrating.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/05/health/flu-vaccine-yamagata-strains
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Breakthrough may mean universal flu vaccine available in ‘five years’
https://talker.news/2024/07/19/breakthrough-may-mean-universal-flu-vaccine/?utm_source=pocket_shared
Another reason not to drink raw milk: H5N1 bird flu has infected cattle in the US and its RNA has made its way into store-bought milk, but the heat treatment of pasteurisation has likely killed the virus. In raw milk, the virus will be intact and able to infect.
https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/25/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-outbreak-likely-widespread/
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