Important Takeaways:
- A bird flu pandemic is inevitable – and it’s only a matter of time before it strikes, according to former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield.
- Redfield’s comments come amid mounting concerns over the detection of the virus in dozens of cattle herds across the United States and the first reported human death in Mexico
- In a recent interview with NewsNation, Redfield expressed his belief that a bird flu pandemic is a high likely. “I really do think it’s very likely that we will, at some time,” he said. “It’s not a question of if; it’s more of a question of when we will have a bird flu pandemic.” He emphasized the significant mortality rate associated with the virus, with an estimation of a mortality rate of “somewhere between 25 and 50 percent,” in contrast to the 0.6 percent death rate observed in the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Redfield explained that the key to the virus’s ability to spread from human to human lies in the change of five specific amino acids in a critical receptor. Once the virus acquires this capacity, the pandemic could be unleashed. Redfield stated, “That’s when you’re going to have the pandemic. And as I said, I think it’s just a matter of time.”
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Important Takeaways:
- The WHO said it wasn’t clear how the man became infected, although H5N2 has been reported in poultry in Mexico.
- There are numerous types of bird flu. H5N2 is not the same strain that has infected multiple dairy cow herds in the U.S. That strain is called H5N1 and three farmworkers have gotten mild infections.
- Mexican health officials alerted the WHO that a 59-year-old man who died in a Mexico City hospital had the virus despite no known exposure to poultry or other animals.
- Mexico’s public health department said in a statement that he had underlying ailments, including chronic kidney failure, diabetes and high blood pressure.
- The WHO said the risk to people in Mexico is low, and that no further human cases have been discovered so far despite testing people who came in contact with the deceased at home and in the hospital.
- Health authorities are closely watching for any signs that the viruses are evolving to spread easily from person to person, and experts are concerned as more mammal species contract bird flu viruses.
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Important Takeaways:
- ‘I Could Make It Infectious In Months’: Former CDC Director Sounds Alarm Over Bird Flu Experiments
- Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield warned last week on NewsNation:
- “I’m obviously most worried about bird flu. Right now, it takes five amino acid changes for it to be effectively infecting humans. That’s a pretty heavy species barrier – but this virus is already in 26 mammal species, as you most recently saw cattle. But in the laboratory, I could make it highly infectious for humans in just months.”
- Redfield continued:
- “That’s the real threat. That’s the real biosecurity threat that these university labs are doing bio-experiments that are intentionally modifying viruses – and I think bird flu is going to be the cause of the Great Pandemic – where they’re teaching these viruses to be more infectious for humans.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Seventy Americans in one state are being monitored for bird flu due to potential exposure – after FDA said H5N1 could trigger pandemic
- The dairy farm workers are being monitored in Colorado as of May 6
- Details about their ages, gender and conditions have not been revealed, but they all worked on a farm in the northeastern part of the state.
- Only one person so far – a farmer in Texas – has tested positive for H5N1 virus this outbreak, but the CDC fears many more could be infected and not coming forward.
- It comes as the FDA’s top official revealed the agency is gearing up for a bird flu pandemic in people that could kill one in four of those it infects.
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Important Takeaways:
- Gruesome first photo of Texas dairy farm worker who caught bird flu from a cow shows how he suffered bleeding in his eyeballs
- This is the first image of the Texas dairy farm worker who caught bird flu from a cow.
- While the man suffered ‘very mild’ symptoms, the photo shows how the virus caused blood vessels in his eyes to pop, leading to bleeding on the surface of his eyeballs.
- In an official case report published Friday, experts at the CDC said they found ‘strong evidence’ via genetic data that he caught the virus from an infected cow in March.
- The confirmation marks the first instance of the H5N1 virus jumping from mammals to humans – a milestone that is of ‘enormous concern’ to the World Health Organization.
- The report added: ‘Over the subsequent days, the worker reported resolution of conjunctivitis without respiratory symptoms and household contacts remained well.’
- CDC Director Dr Mandy Cohen described the individual’s infection in early April as ‘very mild’.
- She told NPR: ‘The person had very mild symptoms. They’re recovering well. But we want to make sure, again, that we are testing folks who may have been in contact.’
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Important Takeaways:
- Largest fresh egg producer in U.S. finds bird flu in chickens at Texas and Michigan plants
- The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been detected at a poultry facility in Michigan.
- In Texas, Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at the facility in Parmer County, Texas.
- The plant is on the Texas-New Mexico border in the Texas Panhandle about 85 miles southwest of Amarillo and about 370 miles northwest of Dallas.
- “The Company continues to work closely with federal, state and local government officials and focused industry groups to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks and effectively manage the response,” according to the statement. “Cal-Maine Foods is working to secure production from other facilities to minimize disruption to its customers.”
- The company said there is no known bird flu risk associated with eggs that are currently on the market and no eggs have been recalled. Eggs that are properly handled and cooked are safe to eat, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Important Takeaways:
- 3 Existential Threats That We Are Facing Right Now Which Could Potentially Result In Millions Of Dead Americans
- In recent years, there has been one enormous crisis after another. We live at a time of major wars, global pestilences and billion-dollar natural disasters.
- Today, our scientists are taking some of the deadliest diseases ever known to humanity and are purposely trying to make them “more infectious”. Here is just one example…
- [Daily Mail report] The US government is spending $1million of American taxpayer money to fund experiments on dangerous bird flu viruses in collaboration with Chinese scientists.
- According to the CDC, bird flu has a death rate of more than 50 percent in humans.
- And these researchers want to make it “more infectious”?
- And the head of the WHO is warning that the timing of the next great global outbreak is “a matter of when, not if”…
- [Brietbart reports] At the World Government Summit, held in Dubai from February 12-14, Ghebreyesus told attendees his previous predictions came to fruition in the form of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Now, the W.H.O. director believes a new pandemic, for which the international community is ill-prepared, is on the horizon.
- Renewing urgent calls for a global pandemic treaty to be agreed upon by May, Ghebreyesus dismissed suspicions of the treaty being a W.H.O. power-grab and called it “mission critical for humanity.”
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Important Takeaways:
- The US government is spending $1million of American taxpayer money to fund gain-of-function experiments on dangerous bird flu viruses in collaboration with Chinese scientists.
- The research involves infecting ducks and geese with different strains to make them more transmissible and infectious, and study the viruses’ potential to ‘jump into mammalian hosts,’ according to the research documents.
- It is being funded through the US Department of Agriculture and will take place at sites in Georgia, Beijing and Edinburgh in Scotland.
- The documents were obtained by the campaign group, The White Coat Waste Project, and shared with DailyMail.com.
- The papers show funding for the avian virus research began in April 2021 and it is slated to continue through March 2026.
- The specific viruses the researchers will work with include H5NX, H7N9 and H9N2.
- A 2023 study described H5NX viruses as ‘highly pathogenic’ with the ability to cause neurological complications in humans.
- The main collaborators on the project are USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute – a Wuhan lab partner.
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The American Heritage Dictionary “plagues”
- A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease; a pestilence.
- A virulent, infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (syn. Pasteurella pestis) and is transmitted primarily by the bite of fleas from an infected rodent, especially a rat. In humans it occurs in bubonic form, marked by lymph node enlargement, and in pneumonic form, marked by infection of the lungs, and can progress to septicemia.
- A widespread affliction or calamity seen as divine retribution.
Important Takeaways:
- ‘Disease X’: UK scientists begin developing vaccines against new pandemic
- UK scientists have begun developing vaccines as an insurance against a new pandemic caused by an unknown “Disease X”.
- The work is being carried out at the government’s high-security Porton Down laboratory complex in Wiltshire by a team of more than 200 scientists.
- They have drawn up a threat list of animal viruses that are capable of infecting humans and could in future spread rapidly around the world.
- Which of them will break through and trigger the next pandemic is unknown, which is why it’s referred to only as “Disease X”.
- Originally, it was focused on COVID and testing the effectiveness of vaccines against new variants.
- But scientists at the center are now involved in monitoring several high-risk pathogens, including bird flu, monkeypox and hantavirus, a disease spread by rodents.
- Bird flu is currently thought to be the most likely pandemic threat.
- The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says at least 30,000 seabirds have died around the UK this summer as a more virulent strain of the H5N1 virus has swept around the world.
- There is also evidence of limited spread in some mammals.
- And four people working on poultry farms in the UK have also tested positive, but were only mildly affected.
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Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Important Takeaways:
- Nine cats have been confirmed to be infected with the H5N1 subtype of avian influenza in Poland, the country’s Chief Veterinary Officer announced on Monday, as reports of mammals being infected with the virus continue to increase.
- The infected cats were found in Poznań, the tri-city metropolitan area, and Lublin, locations separated by distances of hundreds of kilometers.
- According to the Chief Veterinary Officer, initial investigations found that the virus the cats were infected with is not the same strain as the virus that has been infecting gulls in the country in recent weeks.
- The source of infection for the cats had not been identified as of Monday.
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