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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Last year all of my cats got sick from the rabies vaccine. Seems the old supplier for my vet was not available. Don’t know where or what she got but it made the gang sick for a couple of days. Lethargic, not interested in eating.
Maybe for people whose immune systems have been compromised.
I wonder what the connection between presidential elections and scamdemics.
Or the left is telegraphing their latest election steal, control the masses ploy.
The number of people I see still wearing masks glued on up to their eyeballs is alarming. Not a huge number but way more than one would reasonably expect from fairly young, healthy people.
Bingo.
You and a lot of other people.
Good grief.
100 times?
How’d they come up with that number?
It's not clearing the world of the correct riff-raff.
100 percent same as Summer race riots, since 68, the force is hate.
Re: 69 - the person who mentioned the “100 times”:
“John Fulton, a pharmaceutical industry consultant for vaccines and founder of Canada-based pharmaceutical company BioNiagara, organized the meeting after receiving enquiries from the media.”
and in the meeting:
“His [another person at the meeting] concerns were echoed by Fulton, who warned the H5N1 strain of influenza A could trigger a worse pandemic than Covid.
He [Fulton] said: ‘This appears to be 100 times worse than Covid, or it could be if it mutates and maintains its high case fatality rate.
‘Once it’s mutated to infect humans, we can only hope that the [fatality rate] drops.’”
No science. No explanation on how they get 100 times worse than COVID-19.
Nothing.
Just fear porn 100 times worse than normal fear porn.
Hey, hey, hey! Git, git, git, git ready. Up and down the East coast. Come back fat as a rat.
Kommunication Liberation Front, Chill Out
they will be pulling out all the stops, scorched earth is the only way out if they know they are going to lose
Avian influenza (fowl plague) virus is not pathogenic for human. In other words , humans cannot develop disease due to the influenza virus. Humans can be infected by that virus and develop antibodies but the infection is asymptomatic .We do not know if the the infection in humans is an active infection or just a reactivity of the body when challenged with any antigen. There is one single case of death in human due to avian influenza documented in China several decades back. I could not find out how they “documented” the death due to the avian virus infection, in that case.
Fear porn again... What convenient timing too.
LOL. If the comments at the link are anything to go by, nobody’s buying it this time around.
Yeah strange that relatively old “H5N1” bird flu is being hyped by the news media (or maybe just the “Daily Mail”?)...even the crisis prone CDC says “nothing burger”(low risk) RE: H5N1:
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0401-avian-flu.html
We have had bird flu outbreaks numerous times...this new “warning” is just fear porn.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/timeline/avian-timeline-background.htm
I’m not afraid. At all. In fact, just like the last round of bird flu, I hope to get infected. The sooner the better.
Those who SHOULD be fearful will wear their badges with dishonor:
Masks
(i.e., those who got jabbed).
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