Was watching something recently, think it was Vox, that seemed to suggest bird flu is widespread now but very mild and so not worth continued alarm. It doesn't help science if we over hype stuff that always ends up being not quite the end of the world after all. But, incentive structures in science funding and the media's if it bleeds it leads mission focus means over hyping is the average.
It also doesn’t help that if you Google “bird flu mortality”, the “featured” answer is 49%, and there is no mention of the fact that the vast majority of recent US cases have been mild.
One word. Mutation.
The USDA still exists?
It died with American democracy.
Rats, at least until now did not need health care, though I am sure somewhere inside the improbably vast and strange government, it is in fact bieng provided, as Rat studys, include everything but
how to eradicate the horrible vermin creatures that they are.
Anything "dying" in the government, is bieng killed through democracy, as all of the mechanisms used to defund certain portions of the government
were emplaced by previous administrations going all the way back.This is why so much of what is bieng done, can not be blocked in courts, as the decisions to defund, is just as arbitrary, as the ones that funded these unelected government bodys.