Bird Flu Engineered to Infect Humans Could Be Lab-Produced ‘in Months,’ Former CDC Director Says

PJ Media ^ | 05/11/2024 | Ben Bartee

[SeekAndFind]

Bioengineered bird flu souped up via gain-of-function lab work could be developed in a shockingly short period of time, former CDC Director Robert Redfield told News Nation recently:

I think it puts our world at great risk. We have the risk of natural spillover, but there is a species barrier. I’m obviously most worried about bird flu. Right now, it takes five amino acid change for it to be effectively infecting humans. That’s a pretty heavy species barrier but this virus is already now in 26 mammal species, as you saw most recently in cattle. 

But in the laboratory, I could make it highly infectious for humans in months. Because it’s been published the five amino acids that I need to change, and so I don’t think that research should be done. That’s the real threat, that’s the real biosecurity threat that these university labs are doing these bio-experiments that are INTENTIONALLY modifying viruses — and bird flu I think is going to be the cause of the great pandemic — where they are teaching these viruses how to be more infectious for humans.

👀 Fmr. CDC Director Robert Redfield Calls for COVID Intel to Be Declassified, Says Bird Flu Could Cause the ‘Great Pandemic’

“I’ve obviously reviewed the classified information and I’m anxious to see it all declassified…There are geopolitical reasons that they’re keeping this… pic.twitter.com/0nJvun3p66— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) May 10, 2024

Related: Is Congressional Action to Stop Bird Flu Gain-of-Function Research Underway?

There’s a bit of a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t dilemma going on here, in that if the public freaks out and allows itself to be consumed with the fear shoved down its throats by the corporate state media and the virus turns out to be more or less a nothing-burger,

[neverevergiveup]

Of course it can. It’s not difficult.

[mewzilla]

On a vaxx-related note...

First Test

That method works for me.

[SERKIT]

Just in time for the Presidential election. Perfect.

[nitzy]

Until Trump came along, building a wall and protecting the border was outside the Overton window.

I can only hope that soon, a politician will move the Overton window so that scientists, politicians and bureaucrats who participate in (or fund) gain of function research will be publicly executed.

[taxcontrol]

agree

[discostu]

Sure COULD BE. But that’s been true for like 40 years, maybe 50. So what. Stop spreading idiot fear.

[Organic Panic]

The November 5th variant....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Years ago.

[John S Mosby]

Then they should CALL it something other than BIRD FLU! Understand that influenza IS a coronavirus and always has been characterized as such in the science. This “flu” then would be more like a malarial vector. Until they do they’re going to have to do a much better job truthfully informing the public if it is needed.

Fact is that Rob Califf is a bought dog of Merck—who has a LOT of money tied up in their “vaccines” business. He earned his payout his last up before Congress. Much more known about this creature— which will not disclose here.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease - Gain-of-Function research in universities could bioengineer a human infectious disease from the avian flu
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield told News Nation recently:

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(From the article):"Bioengineered bird flu souped up via gain-of-function lab work could be developed in a shockingly short period of time,
former CDC Director Robert Redfield told News Nation recently:"

..... " I think it puts our world at great risk. I’m obviously most worried about bird flu.
Right now, it takes five amino acid change for it to be effectively infecting humans.
That’s a pretty heavy species barrier but this virus is already now in 26 mammal species, as you saw most recently in cattle."

....." But in the laboratory, I could make it highly infectious for humans in months.
Because it’s been published the five amino acids that I need to change, and so I don’t think that research should be done.
That’s the real threat, that’s the real biosecurity threat that these university labs are doing these bio-experiments
that are INTENTIONALLY modifying viruses
— and bird flu I think is going to be the cause of the great pandemic
— where they are teaching these viruses how to be more infectious for humans."

....." 👀 Fmr. CDC Director Robert Redfield Calls for COVID Intel to Be Declassified, Says Bird Flu Could Cause the ‘Great Pandemic’

[gleeaikin]

By all means, NUKE those labs, spread those germs far and wide. Yikes!

[gleeaikin]

Gain of function research on any dangerous pathogen should be severely restricted and monitored! However, human spread of “bird flu” is NOT new. We already have “natural spillover.” If you look at my “About” page you will see that in 2006 I posted an article at FR about spread of bird flu in parts of Eurasia. It appeared that Saddam Hussein’s destruction of the Iraq Marshes had destroyed an important resting and restoration spot in the annual migration route of many kinds of birds traveling from Africa to southern Europe and Central Asia. Thus unhealthy birds were arriving there, giving illnesses to local birds, which were then transmitted to humans in contact with those birds. I think that common farmhold birds like ducks and geese were mentioned as specific conduits of infection. Fortunately, at that time, not many human cases were being reported.

It seems that partial restoration of the Iraq Marshes has been done, but probably more is needed. Also we need to stop destroying other important resting places of migratory species, whether by design, carelessness, or global warming changes. No only are migratory birds being affected, but pathogenic mosquitoes are expanding their ranges from the tropics into the United States. Bird “flu” illness is not the only pandemic type illness we can look forward to. There are malaria, dengue, West Nile virus and others to anticipate. Probably with enthusiasm by Big Pharma.

I would like to say something about ACE-2 and preventing Covid and other illnesses from fully developing. In addition to being in the lungs, the ACE-2s are in the nose where their job is to stop “bugs” from reaching the lungs. Therefore breathing through the nose rather than the mouth is a health preserving practice. Unfortunately I am allergic to several common respiratory allergens. Thus, starting 50 years ago, I began taking daily higher doses of Vitamin C to keep my nasal passages open. Currently at age 85 it is around 6 or 7 grams of Vit. C a day. Several times since Covid hit the world I have developed a severe running of the nose, almost watery mucus, after being in a crowded public situations. For this nose flood I immediately started taking 1 gram C every 2 or 3 hours in addition to my usual 2 gm in the morning and at bedtime. In each case after 24 hours and 12 to 14 total grams of C, my nose was completely clear and I was healthy. I suspect I was combatting Covid or the flu successfully. I also have been taking an array of supplements for the past 50 years, adding some successfully as new physical symptoms of aging have appeared.

Dr. Robert Cathcart (Google him, please!!) has suggested that even completely healthy people should consume 4 grams of C daily. His 10,000 “anecdotal” cases of successful treatment of a wide variety of illnesses have used as much as 100 to 200 grams of C daily. A 2021 study in Turkey found that for Covid treatment, the precise Zelenko protocol saved lives, and the addition of 24 grams IV Vitamin C to half the subjects for several days reduced hospital stays by an average of 3 WEEKS.

[metmom]

Only if it’s Andromeda Strain.

[Fledermaus]

Center for Disease Creation

[Revel]

That’s why you use nukes. Nothing biological survives. Your not as bright as you think you are.

[exDemMom]

Research along these lines has been going on for decades.

Intentionally making an influenza virus more virulent is not as easy as this blog makes it out to be.

There are many different types of influenza A virus. We designate them by the type of hemagglutinin and of neuraminidase they have: H5N1, H3N7, H1N2, H7N9, etc. The genome of influenza A viruses has 8 separate cassettes. When an organism is infected with two kinds of influenza A at the same time, for example, H5N1 and H3N2, those cassettes can be packaged in 256 (2 raised to the power of 8) different combinations. So, if a group set out on purpose to make a more pathogenic virus, they have to test all of those combinations. This has been done:

Reassortment between avian H5N1 and human H3N2 influenza viruses creates hybrid viruses with substantial virulence. (The abstract says that 254 reassortants were tested because they excluded the two that are identical to the parent viruses.) Some of the reassortants were unviable. Others were mildly virulent, and two were highly virulent in mice. Since mice are not humans, results of mouse experiments are non predictive for what would happen in humans.

Genetic Compatibility and Virulence of Reassortants Derived from Contemporary Avian H5N1 and Human H3N2 Influenza A Viruses. This study focused only on the 63 reassortants that contained the H5N1 genes (excluding the parent H5N1 virus).

Other studies examine the effects of mutations on virus transmissibility and virulence.

The reason we do such studies is to try to predict what potentially pandemic viruses might emerge from the wild. With 18 hemaglutinin and 11 neuraminidase subtypes, along with the mutability of every nucleotide in the genomes, the number of possible influenza viruses that can emerge is astronomical. They arise in wild animals much faster than we can investigate the possibilities in laboratories.

What this guy says, "But in the laboratory, I could make it highly infectious for humans in months. Because it’s been published the five amino acids that I need to change," is simply not true. Even if the experimental mutation of those five amino acids was carried out using H5N1, the effect of making those changes in another H5N1 is unpredictable because not all H5N1 viruses are the same. We cannot know without testing what the effect will be. The pathogenicity and virulence of a virus depends on the interactions between its genes. The effects of changing a gene (by reassortment or by mutation) cannot be predicted and can only be determined experimentally.

Oh, and I will mention something else which I learned while working in pandemic preparedness: the government watches these kinds of experiments very carefully. Every government in the world is deeply worried about pandemic outbreaks, and influenza has always been the number one suspect to be the next pandemic.

Oh, and what I said about the unpredictability of changing a virus's genome applies equally to coronaviruses. This is why I have said multiple times that the idea of Covid being an engineered bioweapon is highly unlikely.

[John S Mosby]

Good useful info. The medical revolt against forced vaccinations vs. natural immunity (the Marik protocol for example from East Virginia Medical School) is based in the mode of infection you refer to. Spanish flu, so called was a mutated variant of US developed swine flu from Kansas- carried by US Army troops across the US and into France, where it mutated into Avian Flu (true influenza) that then exploded into neutral Spain in WWI, which released the fact of the pandemic and why it was ever after called Spanish flu- coming back/combining with the flu the Army left (particularly along railroad towns they spread it from on the way to WWI) behind, to become the horrific Spanish flu in the US. The rest of the Allies clamped down on any revealing of the flu in France and the trenches of WWI. Quite a story.

Thanks for your post.