Fears that H5N1 bird flu could spark a much larger outbreak were recently reignited, after new research suggests that bird flu spreads very easily amongst ferret populations, indicting that its spread within mammalian populations is more severe than first released.
Scientists and authorities at the World Health Organization, and the media, have been warning that the current outbreak of avian influenza is the worst in history, rapidly spreading and affecting a variety of mammal populations in the wild, including the death of a bottle nosed dolphin.
The WinePress has actively been following these bird flu fears. Pharmaceutical companies and world governments are already actively creating and testing bird flu vaccines, both for poultry farms and people.
More recently, a new study that has yet to have been peer-reviewed, published on April 21st, studied the transmission of different strains of H5N1 in ferrets. The scientists concluded that H5N1 spreads quite “efficiently” amongst the ferrets, stoking fears that this current outbreak could get a whole lot worse.
Canadian researchers, with some help from government health groups, chose ferrets because they say their respiratory system is closely related to humans. They concluded that “direct contact” with one strain of H5N1 isolated from a diseased bird, resulted “in lethal outcomes.” Therefore the team warned that if this strain of bird flu made the jump to people it prove to be quite catastrophic.
Because there is little to no H5-specific population-wide immunity, if an H5N1 isolate capable of sustained transmission made a species jump into humans, this would likely represent a destructive infection in immunologically naïve population.
The team wrote
Commenting on this new study, John Fulton, a pharmaceutical industry consultant and founder of BioNiagara, told Daily Mail that H5N1 poses a threat “100 times worse than Covid.”
This discovery is very concerning, and governments should take immediate action by seeking out and mobilizing all high-potential production capacity for vaccines and therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of avian influenza H5N1.
We need to sound the alarm bells to wake up our governments to the fact that there is a virus that is undergoing mutations that would/ could eventually allow it to become highly transmissible in human (mammals).
The wakeup call is that we have some of the production capacity needed to produce cell-based vaccines ( no chickens – no eggs) but we must act now and fund the scale up that we have available for cell-based production if we are to be ready if H5N1 mutates further.
The number of laying hens available to produce eggs for vaccine production has already been compromised and is vulnerable to a complete destruction of the egg producing flock leaving us with limited production capacity.
Fulton said
Last year former CDC Director Robert Redfield dogmatically warned that the next pandemic would in fact be bird flu, and that it would have a lethality of 10-50%.
Yeah I think we have to recognize – I’ve always said that I think the Covid pandemic was a wakeup call. I don’t believe it’s the great pandemic.
I believe the great pandemic is still in the future, and that’s going to be a bird flu pandemic for man. It’s gonna have significant mortality in the 10-50% range. It’s gonna be trouble.
Redfield said
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
As I have been pointing out, the media continually keeps chiming in about bird flu fears, for which I currently believe appears to be the “next pandemic” we keep hearing about.
Of course, I think a lot of this is a load of hooey, just like the Covid scam; but regardless of such, this next shamdemic will not only be used to cull a lot of people but also justify wiping out the food supply, by vaccinating and culling livestock and wildlife, in a bid to force the masses from eating meat.
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 1 Timothy 4:1-3
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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