On: RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry

[tombert]

Yeah, that's what I thought as well. Isn't that the reason we need a new flu vaccine every year? Because viruses can mutate and adapt faster than animals can?

I don't know anything about biology so admittedly I'm speaking out of my ass here, but that's certainly what it seemed like to me.

[BrandoElFollito → tombert]

Yes. This is also why in Europe we can predict the efficiency of the vaccine in a given year by looking at how it worked in Australia.

Unfortunately there is not enough time to adapt the vaccine between these two seasons