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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I trust our government as far as I could throw the moon.
well, that’ll be handy for depopulation
Looks like they’ve settled on the next election pandemic.
Did some digging. Ivermectin is anti-bacterial AND anti-viral. Thus, good against flu, RSV etc.
Spread the word!
brilliant post!!
I hope though, that people see through the manipulation. I know a lot of people here that took the first vax, then refused the boosters and regret having the first. I’ve been asked for the protocol to counteract it and where to get it.
So some have learned.
“ I trust our government as far as I could throw the moon.”
Understand, but we need some of it.
Maybe Reagan’s adage of trust but verify.
You’re right on both points.
They sure prevented us from “Trust but verify” with Covid.
Same question as last time - which came first, the disease or the vax?
I base everything I say on the science.
Covid is quite bad, since its 1% death rate means that most people who catch it don’t feel so horrible that they automatically self-quarantine. And it is as contagious as other colds. This is why it has killed a LOT more people than bird flu, even though bird flu (H5N1) has been around for a lot longer.
Bird flu is a killer, with a death rate of up to 60%, but it is difficult to catch from another person. So, despite its high fatality rate, it is not something I would panic about. I would definitely keep an eye on it... I monitored influenza very closely before I retired.
For most infectious diseases, the more deadly they are, the less transmissible they are.
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