Posted on 02/15/2025 4:34:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
As avian flu drives egg prices to record levels and increasingly poses a risk to humans, moves by the White House to cut spending and restrict communications have hobbled public health officials’ response, with the new administration yet to outline a clear strategy on how it plans to stem the spread of the virus.
Widespread funding cuts across the government and new restrictions on funding for National Institutes of Health grants have also created uncertainty among infectious disease researchers and local health officials, who are unsure about what resources they will have to work with going forward. Meanwhile, cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development have limited monitoring of the virus overseas.
The disruptions come at a potentially perilous time. Researchers worry that the more the virus replicates, the more opportunities it will have to develop a mutation that would enable it to spread easily from human to human.
“This is getting more and more dangerous and urgent, and the scientific community is setting off alarm flares,” said Stephen Morrison.
Along with limiting CDC communications with local health officials, the World Health Organization has also been receiving limited information on the spread of avian flu in the U.S. since Trump signed an executive order to withdraw from the global health organization, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a Feb. 12 press conference.
The “near-total communication freeze” at public health agencies “is deeply unprecedented, and that alone scares me more than anything else,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the pandemic center at the Brown University School of Public Health.
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Wear a mask.
I am not even buying that bird flu is a thing.
Deliberate market manipulation.
Nice try.
When one bird, out of 100,000 has the supposed Flu, Pfizer (aka:CDC) wants millions of chickens killed, and sells a vaccine.
What's wrong with that picture?
The mass media are Big Pharma whores and USAID whores.
Their conflict of interest is off the charts.
We’d all be dead in Arkansas. It’s like living in a chicken coop.
Oh noez - DOGE causes “bird flu.”
There a sob story lower down re: how DOGE is causing an HIV positive Ugandan’s divorce.
I’m not making that up.
“As avian flu drives egg prices to record levels and increasingly poses a risk to humans,”
Horse hockey!
Biden had over 200 million chickens destroyed because of a couple of alleged cases of “bird flu”. That is why eggs are expensive: they are in short supply. It takes a while to get new egg laying chickens in the mix. And I don’t fear any threat from bird flu. The only threat is from the government that finds itself being exposed to daylight.
Oh noes!! It’s Bird Covid Avian Flu.
Quick!! Call Fauci and put on a mask!!!
Really cute who they keep using the same ole spinner.
The choices are:
Threat to Democracy, Nazi, No Evidence, Covid, Racist, Convicted Felon and Unelected Oligarch.
The weaponized virus response, Part II.
Bird FLEW response. Akin to rats leaving the ship response. My bride and I avoided the mRNA hysteria, don't take flu shots and buy into the everyday panic vomited up by the media. Gosh, without a "bird flu response," we still won't feel threatened or at risk. Even if the manufacturers of this stuff -- drugs and media articles alike -- want us to. Caveat emptor.
Why is democrat Washington DC like the Titanic?
Because neither one had enough life boats to save the doomed.
This just another straw for the leftist scoundrels to grasp at.
They thought their power trip and grifting would never end.
Is US AID still paying DNBC? The Avian flu is likely fake.
Typical media and democrat response to anything they don’t like — “The Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling.”
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