British media is sounding the alarm on some new wave of a deadly virus, they say, that is rapidly spreading through Europe and will “inevitably” infect the U.K., and no real health and safety measures will be able to thwart it.
Apparently, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a virus that is purportedly spreading like wildfire, mainstream British press is reporting. The Mirror were the first to push this hysteria in an exclusive interview with a professor sounding-off, followed by outlets like GBN and Express also reporting on it as well. This is building off fears from last week of CCHF spreading. Euro News blamed it on “climate change” last week.
Here is what The Mirror first reported:
A killer virus sweeping through Europe will almost certainly reach the UK as an expert warned it’s “a case of when and not if”.
And not even a lockdown – as experienced in a desperate bid to contain COVID-19 – will do much to prevent the spread of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), the expert told Mirror today.
New cases of the virus are spreading across Europe and it’s already killed people in Iraq, Pakistan and Namibia. Professor James Wood, who spoke to Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee last week, tonight told Mirror:
I mean, it’s a kind of when rather than if, I think all in all likelihood. There is a risk of spread given the way that diseases emerging.
The expert stressed a lockdown will “not be appropriate in any way” to contain CCHF, which causes unpleasant rashes, neck pain and other painful symptoms. Prof Wood, an academic at University of Cambridge, continued:
You’d be unlikely to get the sort of respiratory transmission. So even say, I don’t want to call them extreme lockdown enthusiasts, but, someone who thinks that these measures are very important to, to impose straightaway, I don’t think it would be appropriate as it’s not right for this form of infection.
Human-to-human transmission of CCHF is less likely than the transmission of the virus by ticks, typically carried by migratory birds from overseas. Global warming is causing more and more breeds to move to warmer climes and, with a return of June’s heatwave considered, CCHF is likely to transmit in UK.
But Brits can take measures, the lecturer suggests, like wearing long trousers when walking in tick-dense areas, like long grassland. The parasitic arachnids are also carried by animals, like sheep and goats, so Prof Wood highlighted farmers as particularly vulnerable to infection. When ticks bite people and animals, they feed off blood.
Try to keep them off our our legs, perhaps wearing long cotton trousers, either tucked into socks or not.
So a lot of people in in very thick, dense areas will will check their legs and stuff for ticks after they leave the dense grass or bracken, where a lot of ticks can be found.
It can spread but you should expect it more really in hospital-type settings where people don’t realise what’s going on and haven’t taken appropriate safety measures, like PPE, what we are so used to seeing hospital workers wear anyway.
The fatality rate is up to 40 percent. A lot of so a fair number of people in Spain have died from it.
Professor Wood said
But the professor wanted to stress uncertainty remains around CCHF. While he acknowledges it will arrive in the UK, he said it is unclear when and currently research continues into timescales. Migratory birds native to the UK, including the house sparrow and blue jay, have been known to carry ticks, though, and this remains a concern about experts.
Prof Wood said:
There’s a high level of uncertainty. There’s a high level of uncertainty whether it’s going to be five years, or 15, or 25 by the time it reaches UK. That’s the case for these sorts of things, like CCHF, which have not been particularly well studied. Certainly when you compare them to diseases like Lyme disease or, or other tick infections, that we know about, there’s a lot of uncertainty around it.
It’s very difficult to add any kind of precision to that and it would be a mistake to, frankly, and so none of us are trying to say, you know that ‘we’re all going to die’ or ‘we’re all doomed’. It’s just about being aware that because of the way the world is changing, we’ve got to be much more aware of these sorts of infections in the way that we haven’t been in the past.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7
Can you say, PROPAGANDA? I only mention this to show how ridiculous the media is, per usual, as if you needed any more convincing; but to also demonstrate how the media operates. This is a “feeler:” “they” – the heads of the press, government, think tanks, elites – need to routinely gauge the public’s reactions to stuff they push, so they can collect data and analytics on the public’s reaction and perception on things.
As I have repeatedly written, another shamdemic will happen, and I firmly believe it will be zoonotic to justify the mass culling of livestock and animals; and propaganda like this from British and European media are once again testing to see how the public is going to react.
[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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