Media Hypes Bird Flu as 'Next Pandemic' After JonFleetwood.com Reveals U.S. Gov't Is Simultaneously Conducting Gain-Of-Function Experiments and Vaccine Development on Same Virus
"That's the real sort of nightmare."
The mainstream media is now amplifying worries that the current bird flu situation represents a “nightmare” and a “grim sign of [the] next pandemic.”
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“A highly pathogenic bird flu strain reached mainland Antarctica for the first time, leading scientists to worry about the fate of its penguins and other species,” The Washington Post is now reporting.
Other mainstream news outlets are raising concerns bird flu “could be the cause of the next pandemic.”
In Antarctica, where the virus has now been discovered, Spanish scientists from the Higher Council for Scientific Research reportedly had to use the “highest-grade protective measures to avoid transmitting the virus to people.”
“There’s a big public health concern because before Covid everyone was saying bird influenza is going to be the next pandemic,” University of Sydney School of Veterinary Science professor Michael Ward commented.
If bird flu makes the jump to mammals, it “would have the potential to cause the next pandemic,” he added.
The professor suggests a bird flu outbreak is imminent.
“Covid came in and sort of leapfrogged [a bird flu pandemic], but it’s still very high up on the agenda as one of the viruses that has the potential to cause a pandemic. So every time it spills over into humans, we’re concerned,” he said.
The virus’ detection in such a remote location like Antarctica is concerning to Professor Ward.
“It was one of the last areas that we weren’t aware the influenza was—it was one of the last frontiers,” he says. “Australia gets very little bird influenza, but it’s been really raging in North America and especially Europe the last two years—a bit out of control.”
The professor also believes the behavior of the flu’s spread has been “unusual” and “surprising” because Antarctica is so remote.
“And if it’s got there, there’s nowhere it can’t get,” he warns. “But the concern is, once it’s getting into people and it does that regularly, it gets to the point where it doesn’t need the chicken anymore, and it can just go from person to person, and that’s when you’ve got the pandemic. That’s the real sort of nightmare.”
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Other New Bird Flu Reports
Meanwhile, veterinary agencies over the past few weeks from 10 European countries have confirmed new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in their respective poultry flocks, according to another report.
Two more have recorded outbreaks in backyard or captive birds.
Birds have tested positive for HPAI in 18 nations across Europe, the report adds.
Moreover, Orlando, Florida has just issued a public alert due to the detected presence of bird flu at Lake Eola Park.
The City of Orlando “became aware of several bird deaths at Lake Eola and after some investigation, discovered that the birds were positive for bird flu,” according to that report.
Moreover still, a new study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases confirms the H5N1 bird flu virus has adapted to spread to marine mammals.
“This confirms that while the virus may have adapted to marine mammals, it still has the ability to infect birds,” said INTA virologist Agustina Rimondi. “It is a multi-species outbreak.”
“As long as the virus continues to replicate in mammals, it may make it a higher concern for humans. That’s why it’s so important to conduct surveillance and provide early warning,” said UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine’s One Health Institute veterinarian Marcela Uhart.
Uhart went on to call the virus a “new monster.”
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Bird Flu Media Hype Follows Revelation USDA Is Making Bird Flu Virus More Deadly as it Develops Vaccine for It
The media development follows JonFleetwood.com’s recent report that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been making the bird flu virus more infectious and deadly with risky gain-of-function experiments.
That report further revealed that the USDA also happens to be developing a bird flu vaccine, which apparently would be given to American citizens and potentially the world in the event of a bird flu outbreak.
That the U.S. government is simultaneously developing both the problem, a souped-up influenza virus with pandemic potential, as well as the solution to that problem, a bird flu vaccine, raises questions about motives and safety.
Why is the same federal agency, the USDA, making a vaccine for the virus it happens to be making more infectious and deadly?
And what is the likelihood of a lab leak?
The lab leak question is especially relevant given that the U.S. Energy Department concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic likely resulted from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China.
It’s also relevant given the U.S. government’s past “sloppy lab practices” that led to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cross-contaminating a benign specimen of a bird flu virus with dangerous strains that can kill people.
In 2014, a CDC investigation found a “wide range of serious lapses” and “revealed additional flu research that was jeopardized” because of the contaminated samples.
“The CDC scientist may have even handled both the benign strain of bird flu and the dangerous H5N1 strain inside a biosafety cabinet at the same time, the report concludes, which would be a significant breach of basic procedures that carries risks of cross-contaminating specimens,” according to a report from the time.
That report revealed that contaminated bird flu specimens were sent to the USDA, the very government agency currently conducting dangerous experiments on the bird flu virus and developing a vaccine for the disease it causes.
The new reports hyping the bird flu pandemic threat have confirmed the presence of the H5 subtype of avian influenza in two dead seabirds, called skuas, near an Argentine base and scientific research station located on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Alarmingly, this is the same subtype the USDA is currently performing gain-of-function research on.
It’s also the subtype the USDA is working on a vaccine for.
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Former CDC Director Warns of Coming Bird Flu ‘Great Pandemic’
As previously reported on this website, former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield has predicted that a coming bird flu pandemic will be much worse than COVID.
He expects the bird flu virus will “have significant mortality, in the ten to fifteen percent range.”
“I don’t believe [COVID] is the ‘great pandemic,’” he said. “I believe the great pandemic is still in the future. And that’s going to be a bird flu pandemic from man. It’s going to have significant mortality, in the ten to fifteen percent range. It’s going to be trouble. And we should get prepared for it.”
Dr. Redfield emphasized the danger of an imminent bird flu pandemic.
“I do believe that the pandemic risk is of greater risk to the national security of the United States than Korea, China, Russia, [and] Iran. And we ought to start investing proportional to that national security risk so we’re prepared. Unfortunately, we’re not more prepared today than we were when the [COVID] pandemic hit when I was CDC director. And we need to make that proportional investment so that we are prepared.”
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U.S. Gov't Is Making a Vaccine for a Virus It Also Happens to Be Making More Deadly: Bird Flu
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is spending $1 million of American taxpayer money to fund gain-of-function experiments on dangerous bird flu (avian influenza) viruses in collaboration with Chinese scientists, according to a new report.
No isolation of a so called "virus"= no proof=lie
This is just another attack on the food supply to starve more people to death, or kill them with the next diabolical concoction of alchemy strait from hell.
Why weren’t these scientists put in jail after all of these “outbreaks” .. whatever they are ..