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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Maybe we can develop a beautiful vaccine or three for it at warp speed and flatten the curve? /s
It’s like it’s an election year or something…oh, wait…
A pandemic during an election year?! Where have we seen this before?! It was only four years ago.
We need to cancel the election to save the world.
Sounds like there’s an election coming up.
I think they mean the vaccine will be 100 times worse than the Covid vaccine.
>> experts have warned
Experts be damned.
Also known as “The Election Year Variant”.
election year follies
Luckily, the covid vax works for this. What a break.
I’m too chicken to try the vaccine.
Translation: “it’s an election year and we don’t trust our vote fraud operation to get it done so we’re releasing the latest flu bug we manufactured to add to the misery.”
I often wondered if the Covid “vaccine” was the first half of a binary bio-weapon. Perhaps they are getting ready to release the second half.
Only mail in ballots can save us?
There are about 100 cases of bird flu each year, usually in farmers who care for birds, or people who eat sick chickens. A couple years ago, when this was threatening Asia, Indonesia banned those living in cities from raising chickens. (most were for cock fights, not for eggs as in the west).
There is a vaccine for it and they inoculate fighting roosters, but for chickens raised for eggs or meat, usually if your henhouse gets infected, it is cheaper to just kill them all and start over.
One reason that President Obama banned gain of function research was because some US lab did gain of function research in the USA.
That is the backstory of why the experts had to farm out the gain of function research to overseas labs.
Heeeere wee goooooooo...????
0 times 100 is still 0.
Fear mongering.
I have heard of one case that someone got bird flu, he had runny eyes a couple of days.
Yes the spread to the dairy cattle in Texas is concerning .
However we test for diseases a ton more than in the past.
This could have happened in the past and we just never knew it.
Or it could be a biological attack from bad people.
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