32. The Bird Flu
Why are our cows, some pigs, and many chickens getting sick from bird flu?
"If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic climate breakdowns, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a high fatality rate," wrote Bill McGuire, professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at the University of London. Dr. McGuire also helped author a report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) advising the British government during Covid. [Reported in News Nation by Dowling, May 13, 2024.]
For some reason, former director Dr. Robert Redfield wasn’t there for us during the pandemic. He was part of the Fauci-Birx-Collins team focused on vaccines. Later, Redfield became an early proponent of the lab leak theory with Covid and advocated for shutting down gain-of-function research, which funds the development of highly infectious viruses in labs for vaccine development. Recently, Redfield spoke to News Nation and warned that bird flu could be the next pandemic.
In 2012, Fouchier and Kawaoka alarmed the world by revealing they had separately modified the deadly avian H5N1 influenza so that it spreads between ferrets. "Only a few mutations were necessary to make the H5N1 bird flu spread through the air between ferrets... H5N1 bird flu is known to have sickened 650 people worldwide, and of those, 386 (60%) died." [Health News - NPR by Nell Greenfieldboyce, April 10, 2014, Scientists Publish Recipe for Making Bird Flu More Contagious]
"In 2012, two labs independently reported... had managed to alter the avian H5N1 flu virus so it could spread through the air among ferrets... This particular flu virus had a history of killing 60% of the humans it infects, but the virus’s spread is limited to those who eat or handle infected poultry. The new mutated virus... allows them to spread via air droplets like seasonal flu." On page 7, Casadevall says, "Now we know that humanity faces a huge threat from all this bird flu; it just hasn’t happened yet." [Undark Magazine, Gain of Function Research (GFS), Charles Schmidt, Sept. 27, 2021, All in the Eyes of the Beholder]
The research was paused in 2014 after fears of human transmission emerged. However, in 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH, restarted the research. Arturo Casadevall, a microbiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, cited the work of Fouchier and Kawaoka, showing unequivocally that the lab-altered H5N1 had the capacity for airborne spread among mammals. "You could have learned from any other experiments," he says. "Now we know that humanity faces a huge threat from all this bird flu; it just hasn’t happened yet." (Charles Schmidt, Gain of Function Research, Nov. 21, 2021, p. 7)
Dr. Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, stepped down in ’22. What is going on? Will the ghost of Dr. Fauci come back to haunt us once again? In his opening statement to Congress on June 3, 2024, regarding Covid, Fauci said, "It’s possible the virus had leaked from a lab." Rep. Brad Wenstrup, an Ohio Republican who is chairman of the House subcommittee, said, "Fauci’s leadership allowed the president of EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, to use millions in taxpayers’ dollars to conduct risky gain-of-function experiments that involved modifying the coronavirus." (by Alex Bendix, NBC, June 3, 4:50 PM). Will we suffer from gain-of-function research again, this time from bird flu?
The first human case of (H5N1) bird flu linked to dairy cows was reported on April 1, 2024. By June 12th, there were four cases of bird flu transmitted from cows to humans. Whoops, here we go again. "It took five amino acid changes for bird flu to effectively infect humans. Despite objections, Fauci released the material that showed the world how. This virus has now infected 26 mammal species, most recently cattle." [Sentinel, May 13, 2024]
On June 12, 2024, the CDC website under "Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (bird flu) Detected" states: 9,398 wild birds are infected, 96,814,656 poultry are infected in 48 states, 85 herds of cattle are infected in 10 states, and four humans are infected, crossed over from cattle.
Don’t worry, our government is taking action: USDA is providing $2,000 per month for each infected premise. USDA is also providing $1,500 to premises to establish a biosecurity plan for the milk supply. USDA will also provide $100 for milk sample kits and $10,000 reimbursement for veterinary expenses, totaling $28,000 per infected premise over the next 120 days.
Clearly, the government is mobilizing to combat H5N1 (bird flu); USDA will make $98 million available, HHS through CDC and FDA will make $101 million available, and CDC has identified an additional $93 million, with FDA announcing an additional $8 million to ensure the safety of commercial milk.
Dr. McCullough, along with historian John Leake, made the following comment. Dr. Peter McCullough, a Texas heart surgeon, faced extreme federal pressure for advocating ivermectin during Covid in 2022. (Reported by Arianna Johnson, Forbes, April 19, 2024)
"We subsequently found out that farmers will receive payment for mass PCR testing and for culling or intentional killing of poultry and disposal. This will engage farmers financially and greatly overstate the extent of the current outbreak. The government’s strategy will never give a chance for natural bird immunity to the current strain, which likely originated at the Southwest Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, GA. Essentially, the current avian influenza 'crisis' is a pretext for a mass vaccination 'crisis' of animals and humans."
Will these government expenditures mitigate or exacerbate the virus's infectiousness? Will we soon face another round of big pharma vaccines? Why are we compensating biopharmaceuticals with tax dollars to manipulate virus genetics that could potentially create deadly human diseases?
Dr. Fauci asserted in a 2012 editorial that the need to stay ahead of pandemic threats justifies gain-of-function research. However, Simon Wain-Hobson, a microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, counters, "No one can predict the next pandemic, and if you can’t do that, then the whole raison d'être for gain-of-function falls apart." (Schmidt, Gain of Function, p. 7, Nov. 21, 2021)
Iowa Public Radio News by Benjamin Thorp on June 6, 2024, quoted CDC Deputy Director Nirav who said, "The presence of respiratory symptoms in the Michigan worker, which included a cough, tells us the exposure risk is high."
On June 13, 2024, Sunnyland Farms, Medicine and Life Science News by Andrew Joseph, quoted Seth Berkley, the former CEO of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, a widely respected global health leader, regarding the bird flu outbreak among dairy cows, who said,
"Are we better prepared? Do we have vaccines? Are they the right vaccines? ... It has been shocking to watch the ineptitude. This does make me scared. H5N1 is one of the things that keeps me up at night."
In a piece released on June 15, 2024, by Lauren Irwin from The Hill - Healthcare titled "Former Director of CDC Predicts Bird Flu Pandemic," Dr. Robert Redfield discloses some chilling facts. "Bird flu has significant human mortality." Redfield predicts, "The mortality of bird flu is 25%-50%, while Covid was 0.6 percent."
Is government-funded gain-of-function research good or evil? Should Redfield’s prediction of a pandemic come true, how many millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions would perish, even without an effective vaccine? Is this the nefarious plan of culling the population that Dr. Bill McGuire said was needed? This piece aims to alert people to bird flu's transition to mammals, its significant infection of cattle, and the recent dangerous transition and infection of humans. Once again, laboratory modifications through government-paid gain-of-function research are suspect. While lab research may hasten vaccine development, according to Redfield, the human toll would be devastating this time, with no one else to blame but ourselves.
Have a Blessed Week!
Tony Christ