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'This could be 100 times worse than Covid': Bird flu warning from scientists who say HALF of infections with H5N1 in people are fatal - as White House says it's 'monitoring' the situation
Daily Mail ^ | April 3, 2024 | Luke Andrews

Posted on 04/03/2024 6:44:47 PM PDT by chickenlips

A bird flu pandemic could be '100 times worse than Covid' and kill up to half of everyone it infects, experts have warned — as the White House says it is 'monitoring' the situation.

Speaking at a briefing, virus researchers said the H5N1 strain of bird flu may now be getting 'dangerously close' to triggering a pandemic.

Multiple cases of the infection in a variety of mammals, including cows, cats and, more recently, humans, are all raising the risk of the virus mutating to become more transmissible, they said.

But others attending the briefing said it was too early to panic because there were still too many unknowns about recent cases to warrant sounding the alarm.

A White House representative said today it was tracking bird flu in the US, adding: 'We take the health and safety of the American people seriously.'

The panel was quickly convened off the heels of news that a dairy farm worker in Texas tested positive for the virus, alongside 12 herds of cows in six states and three cats also in Texas that subsequently died.

Testing done on the worker showed the patient's virus had already mutated to spread more easily — although the CDC said this mutation had been recorded before, that the risk was low and that there was no sign of human-to-human transmission.

The briefing was attended by bird flu researchers, doctors and officials from government agencies who were alarmed by the bird flu case in a human.

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KEYWORDS: ajntsa; bohica; dooom; flu; h5n1; pandemic
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To: chickenlips

Everyone quickly move to your safe spaces and prepare your mail-in ballots!


41 posted on 04/03/2024 8:07:11 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: chickenlips
PREVIEW:

Me: OMG! I am too scared to go to work!

GOVT: No problem...You can work remotely

Me: My company closed because people are too scared to go out!

GOVT: No problem...Here's a check to make up the difference

Me: The election is just months away! How can I vote?

GOVT: No problem...Here's a mail-in ballot...it is safe and secure

42 posted on 04/03/2024 8:14:28 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Pol-92064

Read a fairly entertaining book recently that kinda goes with this

http://www.bobbyadair.com/black-virus-landing-01


43 posted on 04/03/2024 8:16:53 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: chickenlips

Ay por favor-esta mierda otra vez? A brand new election year flu!

/medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-texan-h5n1-bird-flu-cdc.html

This bird flu-to livestock-to human has gone on forever-this is not the 1st time-here-try the above link. And you are probably not going to get it unless you work with dairy cows or chickens for a living. And there is already a vaxx, I think, if someone just can’t do without one to be “safe”...


44 posted on 04/03/2024 8:20:49 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: chickenlips

Every four years, sure as leap year:

C ommunist
O rignated
V ote
I ntegrity
D estroyer.


45 posted on 04/03/2024 8:25:47 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: exDemMom

Careful now-you are making sense and we can’t have that when people are supposed to run to their safe spaces, hide in terror-and vote by safe, secure mail-in ballot...


46 posted on 04/03/2024 8:26:31 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: Saintgermain

I just started my supplements again yesterday, which includes almost everything on your list.


47 posted on 04/03/2024 8:30:09 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: chickenlips

Bring it on. I’m still not taking a vax. I’ll die of a disease or I’ll die in prison.


48 posted on 04/03/2024 8:31:47 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: HighSierra5

I’m too sensible to get vaxed and so is my MD.


49 posted on 04/03/2024 8:34:52 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: ZinGirl

Here we go again.


50 posted on 04/03/2024 8:36:10 PM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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To: chickenlips

Ever since the first human case of H5N1 in 1997, the cross-species evolution of this virus has been a concern.

But people who speak of it like it’s a certainty underestimate how unlikely it is. Viruses have pretty high species specificity. Distemper in dogs and human measles are very similar, but humans and dogs in 40,000 years together haven’t managed to infect dogs with measles or humans with distemper.

Humans can and do catch H5N1 from birds, and a case can transmit H5N1 to a second human through close contact - but, so far, human #2 cannot transmit it to human #3. This is why, since 1997, there are hundreds or even thousands of human cases, but not hundreds of millions.

The spread to cattle is interesting, though. If a vaccine becomes necessary, all the knowledge and all the technology to produce it is on hand, no “Operation Warp Speed” would be required.


51 posted on 04/03/2024 8:39:32 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: chickenlips

Look! In the lake! ..... A Black Swan!


52 posted on 04/03/2024 8:50:17 PM PDT by Herodes
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To: DoodleBob

My cat agrees with your cat and they’re both smarter than experts.

BTW, her rabies vaccine made her very sick.


53 posted on 04/03/2024 8:51:57 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: Wallace T.

>> Who died and made these experts king of anything?

In the “transhumanist divinity” pseudo-religion with which we’re currently afflicted, “experts” take on the role of priests. Priests can hold even more sway over the sheeple than can kings.


54 posted on 04/03/2024 9:01:33 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Veto!

>> BTW, her rabies vaccine made her very sick.

Interesting. I recently took my elderly cat to the vet. The only recommended vaccine was rabies, so she got that.

One week to the day later, she died; she began her downhill episode two days before she died.


55 posted on 04/03/2024 9:04:57 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: chickenlips

Sorry , fool em once, fool the vaxed twice….anyone with brains isn’t going to buy into this.
For those deceived into getting the Covid jabs, I suggest you ask God first if you should take another ineffective and dangerous jab.


56 posted on 04/03/2024 9:14:59 PM PDT by delta7
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To: chickenlips

Yeah, they said this in 2003, yawn


57 posted on 04/03/2024 9:15:08 PM PDT by struggle
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To: chickenlips

H5N1 is not new. It was first detected in 1996 in China. The virus was detected in wild birds in Canada and the United States in late 2021. In February 2022, the virus begins causing outbreaks in U.S. commercial and backyard poultry. Rare, sporadic human infections with this H5N1 virus are detected, as well as sporadic infections in mammals. But the current problem is considered low.

wy69


58 posted on 04/03/2024 9:28:30 PM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: chickenlips

Yes folks; this is the election variant you’ve been looking for.


59 posted on 04/03/2024 9:52:28 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: LadyDoc
There you go again being all rational.

Kill joy. /s

There just has to be a crisis somewhere under that pile of dead chickens.

60 posted on 04/03/2024 10:53:47 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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