Since December, farmers in Europe have had to cull more than 17 million birds. “So that’s very similar to the situation in the U.S.,” says Fouchier. “And we are seeing massive die-offs in wild birds.”
highly pathogenic bird flu virus is tearing its way through U.S. farms and chicken yards, spreading to at least 24 states less than two months after the first outbreak was reported in a commercial flock.
Nearly 23 million birds have died. It’s the worst U.S. outbreak of the avian flu since 2015, when more than 50 million birds died. The outbreak is driving up consumer prices for eggs and chicken meat that, like many costs, had already been rising due to inflation.
One of the worst-hit states is Iowa, where more than 5 million birds died at an egg-laying facility in Osceola on March 31, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Overall, more than 13 million birds have been culled in the state.
Very convenient for people who want to screw around with the food supply
How long before the gain of function version escapes from one of Fauci’s labs?
Intercontinental movement of H5 2.3.4.4 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) to the United States, 2021
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.11.479922v2.full.pdf
Conclusions
While there had been intense focus on intercontinental movement of HP IAV from Asia to the
North American Pacific Flyway (10), viral movement via the trans-Atlantic pathway has been less clear.
Data reported here, in combination with the recent HP findings in Newfoundland, Canada (9), point to
this being the first documented introduction of a Eurasian origin HP IAV into wild birds via the Atlantic
Flyway of the US. The potential introduction pathway likely includes wild bird migratory routes from
Northern Europe that overlap Arctic regions of North America, and then dispersal farther south into
Canada and the US (11,12).
Band recovery data reveal a majority of dabbling ducks banded in the Atlantic Flyway are also
recovered in the Atlantic Flyway, reinforcing the predominance of within flyway movement (13);
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however, data also reveal routine movement to other flyways, providing a potential mechanism of wider
spread dispersal of the virus in North American waterfowl. In addition, the sequence data indicate that
these viruses cluster closely with viruses found in Western Europe during the spring of 2021 (Figure 1,
Supplementary Information), offering the possibility that these viruses are already in multiple locations in
North America. Additional detections in wild birds suggest these 2.3.4.4b H5 viruses continue to be
transmitted (Table S1, Supplemental Information) and further dispersal may be seen once waterfowl
begin migration to summer breeding areas.
Many previous HP findings in wild birds have been tied to repeated spillover of the viruses from
domestic birds, which is where mutations to high pathogenicity primarily occur; however, in some cases,
Gs/Gd lineage viruses now appear to be maintained in wild bird populations (14). This potential adaption
of HP IAV to wild birds highlights the importance of continued wild bird surveillance in the future. In
addition, these findings demonstrate that targeted IAV surveillance in wild bird populations can detect
newly introduced or emergent IAV viruses prior to spillover to domestic poultry. Advanced warnings
from wild bird surveillance allow poultry producers to consider altering biosecurity in the face of
increased IAV risk and also help inform zoonotic disease potential (15)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.11.479922v2.full.pdf
Can the bird flu virus be spread via chemtrails?
Crises are very good for professional affirmative-action bureaucratic parasites.
But it’s not as if they would manufacture a “crisis” or anything.