Bird flu paranoia?

Bird flu paranoia in Victoria, Australia may start causing egg shortages. The story is that wild birds are the vectors.

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Egg producers warn shoppers of a potential shortage as bird flu is found on fourth farm

Shoppers may see fewer eggs on shelves as four farms at the centre of bird flu outbreaks in Victoria are placed in quarantine.
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  • In short: Egg shortages could be felt over the coming week after four egg farms go into quarantine.
  • More than 600,000 egg-laying hens will be culled to contain avian influenza outbreaks.
  • What's next? Shoppers who cannot find their favourite eggs should shop around at local grocers and butchers, farmers say.
Egg producers are warning shoppers of a potential shortage from this week as bird flu outbreaks affect production in Victoria.

Four farms in Victoria's largest egg-producing regions are under quarantine after confirmed outbreaks of two different strains of the virus, also known as avian influenza.

More than 600,000 egg-laying hens at those farms will be culled in an effort to limit the spread of the virus.

There are more than 21 million hens in the national egg flock, according to the egg industry, and more than 100 egg farms in Victoria.

Victorian egg producer and Egg Farmers of Australia state director Meg Parkinson said any supply shortages would have been felt by now, as the 400,000-hen farm at Meredith that first reported an outbreak was affected more than two weeks ago.

"There are plenty of eggs in the system, but there won't be as many eggs as before," Ms Parkinson said.

Ms Parkinson understands the affected egg farms supply Australia's major supermarkets.

Fourth poultry farm placed in quarantine​

On Wednesday Agriculture Victoria advised that avian influenza had been detected at a fourth property in the Golden Plains Shire.

The farm has been placed into quarantine and Agriculture Victoria staff are working closely with industry to reduce the risk of spread.

Victoria's chief veterinary officer Graeme Cooke said the detection was not unexpected.

"We remind bird owners that housing birds, where practical, is an effective method of minimising direct contact with wild birds," Dr Cooke said.

Existing movement controls remain in place in designated areas near Terang.

The restricted and control areas around Meredith have been extended with a buffer zone covering a 15-kilometre radius.

'Shop around', farmers say​

While the impact on egg availability is yet to be felt, the industry is concerned about potential wider outbreaks of bird flu.

Victoria is Australia's third-largest egg producer, supplying 85 million dozen eggs each year.

New South Wales and Queensland produce 266 million dozen eggs combined.

The Victorian Farmers Federation says biosecurity is the top priority right now for poultry farmers, who have been advised to keep hens indoors and strengthen farm hygiene.
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This will likely have the opposite effect.

The farming group's vice-president Danyel Cucinotta said egg availability would likely differ between retail outlets.

"We're anticipating a flow-on impact to egg supplies in the coming week and are working as hard as possible to maintain availability," Ms Cucinotta said.

"My advice is to shop around at your local grocer, market, or small independent store to buy your eggs."
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The bird flu scam will likely be spread 'just as bird migration starts' and as the normal flu season hits. Both real human cases, caused by vaccination, and fake ones caused by PCR testing may be used to manufacture a fear-based narrative to lock everything down in time for Kamala to profit from another stolen election.


The sheer scale of the U.S. bird flu outbreak is hard to fathom.


More than 100 million farmed birds have been infected with H5N1 since 2022, followed by roughly 170 herds of dairy cows, along with virus detections in more than 200 other mammals — humans included.

Colorado is now facing the country's first human outbreak, which has quickly hit the double-digits. As of Wednesday, there have been nine recent cases at two poultry farms, plus one earlier case from a dairy farm. And while the latest spread may be chicken-to-human, genetic sequencing suggests the virus strain is similar to the form of bird flu tearing through cow populations across more than a dozen states.

The country's total human infection tally pales in comparison to the staggering case counts among poultry and livestock. There haven't been any farm worker deaths, and no cases linked to dairy farms have popped up yet in Canada, either.

Yet this new, unusual cluster of human H5N1 cases may be a harbinger of looming challenges to come, all while the broader U.S. outbreak could be surging out of control.

The timing is far from ideal, several scientists told CBC News, with farm worker infections ticking up mere months before the return of the usual flu season, and the fall migration of millions of wild birds — giving this globetrotting virus countless more opportunities to evolve.
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So I guess we can blame wild birds, and also any case of the regular flu this season may trigger a PCR test, which could easily determine any illness to be this new H5N1. Edit: or H5N8, H9N2, whatever number 'it' is.

"We are looking at, potentially, a huge outbreak that is still expanding, and still growing, and that is not containable," warned virologist Angela Rasmussen, a researcher with the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization.

"And that increases the risk of more and more human cases, which in turn increases the risk that this virus will become better adapted to humans."

Mild infections, no onward transmission​

Officials first announced the discovery of several farm worker infections back on July 14, all linked to large-scale culling efforts involving H5N1-infected birds on an egg farm in Colorado.
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Were they PCR tested?

While there aren't signs of onward human-to-human transmission, sequencing from one of those cases showed the strain is closely related to the virus spreading in dairy cows, which features previously-documented adaptations to mammals, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted in a recent update.

More reassuring? So far, all the human cases in the U.S. have been mild infections, despite high H5N1 case fatality rates reported globally over the last two decades. Some farm workers in the Colorado cluster had traditional flu symptoms of fever and cough, while others experienced conjunctivitis, suggesting the virus may have snuck in through their exposed eye membranes rather than through the body's respiratory channels.
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Hmm... so we'll need eye masks?

But given the small number of known human infections in the U.S. to date, and the unusual transmission patterns that don't mimic how this virus would actually spread person-to-person, "we should put no stock at all on what we're seeing in terms of severity," noted McMaster University influenza researcher Matthew Miller, the director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research.


More than 100 million farmed birds have been infected with H5N1 since 2022, followed by roughly 170 herds of dairy cows across 13 states just this year. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

Virus mashup 'could create a whole new beast'​

If human infections keep rising into the fall, in Colorado or beyond, experts say the timing would be advantageous to a virus that's already proven quite adept at striking a wide variety of species. And a host of factors, several scientists agreed, may provide opportunities for H5N1 to better adapt to infect and harm more human hosts.

For one thing, the dovetailing of heightened human H5N1 circulation and the return of seasonal flu strains could have dire consequences, said virologist Tom Peacock, a fellow with the Pirbright Institute, a U.K.-based research and surveillance centre for zoonotic viruses.

"Suddenly, some of these workers who are getting exposed and infected [with H5N1] have a chance of being infected with seasonal flu. And then the poultry or dairy worker is acting as the mixing vessel."

Those scenarios would give the virus a chance to mash up its genetic makeup with other flu strains, potentially allowing it to mix-and-match characteristics that could sharpen its ability to transmit person-to-person. It's a process known as reassortment, and influenza viruses are particularly adept at it.

That genetic reassortment, Miller said, "could create a whole new beast."

There's also a heightened risk of other farms becoming infection sites in the months ahead, Peacock warned, given H5N1's penchant for spilling between species.

Already, mounting evidence suggests heightened mammal-to-mammal transmission is taking place even now. A peer-reviewed paper in Nature, published online Wednesday, looked at genomic sequencing for a host of infected species, including cows, birds, domestic cats and a raccoon from impacted farms.
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The study in Nature shows two tables of PCR testing. Not sure if they are the high-cycle PCR testing that found covid in everything.

The research team found evidence of both "multidirectional interspecies transmissions" and "efficient cow-to-cow transmission" after seemingly healthy cows from an affected farm were transported to a facility in a different state.

The possibility of onward spread into pig populations in the months ahead is one of Peacock's biggest concerns, since swine "have a lot of viruses circulating within them that are derived originally from human seasonal viruses."

"This is how pandemics happen: The mixing of seasonal viruses with avian viruses or novel viruses," he said.

The 2009 swine flu pandemic is one of the most familiar, resulting from a mashup of bird, pig and human forms of influenza A.
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It wasn't a pandemic.

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Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic - Fact or Fiction?

Folks, you can expect to see a lot of panic over this in the near future. But I wouldn't be too hasty -- this isn't the first time the public has been warned about swine flu. The last time was in 1976, right before I entered medical school and I...
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Chickens are pictured at a large poultry farm in British Columbia. Both in Canada and the U.S., wild and farmed birds have fallen ill with H5N1 in droves in recent years. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
Miller agreed the possibility of that happening on U.S. pig farms is a rising threat. "We're not doing enough proactive surveillance in those settings right now," he added. "It's a little frustrating."

On top of that, scientists expect another wave of migrations could further fuel H5N1's global spread, with millions of wild birds set to fly along north-south avian superhighways in the months ahead.

"There are tremendous opportunities [for H5N1] to recombine in new and unexpected ways as these waves of migration take place," Miller said.

Human spread remains hazy​

All those added variables could make the U.S. bird flu outbreak even tougher to contain, heightening the risk to humans and putting other countries — including Canada — on alert.

"Eventually, if this continues, we will have viruses emerging that are better adapted to humans. What that's going to look like in practice, and whether that causes a pandemic, we don't know," said Rasmussen.

Complicating matters? The full extent of H5N1's human spread in the U.S. still remains hazy.

A recent serology study in Michigan, which involved testing blood samples from 35 farm workers who'd spent time around infected dairy cows, didn't find evidence of prior infections — suggesting there might not be symptomless human infections flying under the radar.

But it's just one small study, from just one health department.


Just days after early reports of sick cows at several U.S. farms, H5N1 bird flu has been identified in at least a dozen herds across six states. Scientists are on high alert. But many say what worries them more is whether this virus will jump to more livestock — and pigs, in particular. (Ohio Department of Agriculture)

Colorado, meanwhile, is ramping up surveillance efforts to combat the rampant spread of the virus, including a mandatory order on Tuesday for weekly bulk milk-tank testing at dairy farms. Two days later, the state announced the launch of a publicly-available dashboard to track cases of avian flu in humans, which will be updated twice a week.

Yet data from other states remains thin thanks to patchwork testing efforts mired by bureaucratic roadblocks, which means the U.S. is likely missing both animal and human cases, experts have warned for months.

"It's really hard to tell if Colorado was genuinely in a worse state than a lot of other states, or it's just testing and finding stuff," said Peacock. "This is one of the major issues with this outbreak: We don't really have any idea."

Calls for farm worker vaccinations​

Meanwhile, Rasmussen says there's "not really clear decisive action being taken" to clamp down on animal or human infections.

Alongside the need for heightened testing and surveillance efforts, she said H5N1 vaccination strategies targeting at-risk farm workers are another tool the U.S. should consider before the situation spirals out of control.

So far, however, the CDC has not recommended vaccinations for any livestock workers.

Canada, Rasmussen said, should also remain vigilant, despite no known farm worker infections or any signs of the virus appearing in the country's milk supply. (Only one human case of H5N1 has ever been reported in Canada. The individual died from bird flu back in 2014 following a trip to China, where they likely got infected.)


20 years of avian flu making headlines and sparking pandemic concerns​


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A look at CBC News coverage of H5N1’s spread across the globe between 2004 and 2024, from early bird flu outbreaks in Asia to the ongoing spread of the virus in dairy cows.
Other countries are taking a different approach. In late June, Finland became the first to pursue proactive bird flu vaccination for any adults "who are at increased risk of contracting avian influenza due to their work or other circumstances."

The U.S. should take note, Rasmussen said, as sweltering temperatures in Colorado limited workers' ability to wear protective equipment while they were killing infected poultry — leaving them vulnerable to catching the virus.

With more hot months ahead, and untold numbers of virus-carrying farm animals across the country, that scenario could easily happen again.

"It's a mistake not to offer some limited vaccination," Rasmussen said. "Especially given the current situation."
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But there's the tradeoff between virulence and transmissibility that would naturally prevent this from becoming a pandemic. From the above Mercola article:

Others, such as evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald, (5) claim that a pandemic of this sort simply cannot happen, because in order for it to occur, the world has to change. Not the virus itself, but the world.

In a previous interview for Esquire magazine, in which he discusses the possibility of a bird flu pandemic, he states:

"They think that if a virus mutates, it's an evolutionary event. Well, the virus is mutating because that is what viruses and other pathogens do. But evolution is not just random mutation. It is random mutation coupled with natural selection; it is a battle for competitive advantage among different strains generated by random mutation.

For bird flu to evolve into a human pandemic, the strain that finds a home in humanity has to be a strain that is both highly virulent and highly transmissible. Deadliness has to translate somehow into popularity; H5N1 has to find a way to kill or immobilize its human hosts, and still find other hosts to infect. Usually that doesn't happen."

Ewald goes on to explain that evolution in general is all about trade-offs, and in the evolution of infections the trade-off is between virulence and transmissibility.

What this means is that in order for a "bird flu" or "swine flu" to turn into a human pandemic, it has to find an environment that favors both deadly virulence and ease of transmission.

People living in squalor on the Western Front at the end of World War I generated such an environment, from which the epidemic of 1918 could arise.

Likewise, crowded chicken farms, slaughterhouses, and jam-packed markets of eastern Asia provide another such environment, and that environment gave rise to the bird flu -- a pathogen that both kills and spreads, in birds, but not in humans.

Says Ewald:

"We know that H5N1 is well adapted to birds. We also know that it has a hard time becoming a virus that can move from person to person. It has a hard time without our doing anything. But we can make it harder. We can make sure it has no human population in which to evolve transmissibility. There is no need to rely on the mass extermination of chickens. There is no need to stockpile vaccines for everyone.

By vaccinating just the people most at risk -- the people who work with chickens and the caregivers -- we can prevent it from becoming transmissible among humans. Then it doesn't matter what it does in chickens."

Please remember that, despite the fantastic headlines and projections of MILLIONS of deaths, the H5N1 bird flu virus killed a mere 257 people worldwide since late 2003. As unfortunate as those deaths are, 257 deaths worldwide from any disease, over the course of five years, simply does not constitute an emergency worthy of much attention, let alone fear!
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No real sign of any major outbreak in the Asia-Pacific, despite dire warnings for them to 'get on board':


No sign of an outbreak in Russia, either.
 
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Another example that our food is to be contaminated by vaccination, widespread. Forcing preventative mass culling animals, forcing scarcity, forcing prices going up for the rest of the livestock, that will be full of MRNA and whatever they will add.

EU fights outbreak of sheep and goat plague​

August 5, 2024, ATHENS — Governments in southeastern Europe are scrambling to contain an outbreak of sheep and goat plague that allegedly began last month in Romania and threatens to spread through Bulgaria and the Balkans.

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Bulgarian authorities are disinfecting vehicles and demanding negative PCR tests for all animals entering the country from Monday onward, according to local media. Their counterparts in Greece, where the outbreak has already wreaked havoc, have quarantined livestock farms and preventively culled over 10,000 sheep after the virus — known as “Peste des Petits Ruminants”.
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PPR kills up to 70 percent of infected animals. Since it was first reported in the Ivory Coast in 1942, it has periodically decimated livestock across parts of Africa and the Middle East.
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Global health authorities aim to eradicate PPR by 2030 through widespread vaccination, seeking to reproduce the victory over ovine rinderpest in 2011.
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Dr Sabine Stebel published (the text below) via her Telegram channel; the woman who is like a truffle pig and finds just about anything impossible you can think of when it comes to genetic related science and "science" as well illness pathways and molekular genetics. Her knowledge in those fields are almost unparalleled.

She is also the author of the book "Einmal mit Profi's arbeiten - Ugur's Confession" [Working with professionals for once - or Ugur's confession] - obliterating BionTech's CEO book contents down to atomic levels; revealing the blatant lies and almost absurd errors in the modRNA "vaccines" he created for Pfizer. Countless errors which high school students in molecular genetics are taught to be avoided. She wrote that book as an assistant (together with her substack material), as her main audience are medical lawyers !!


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The American FDA has no proof of the existence of bird flu!

Although the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) knows that bird flu is "highly contagious" and has authorised PCR tests, it cannot provide any scientific proof of the virus.

Using the US Freedom of Information Act, civil rights activist and journalist Christine Massey Fois has unearthed facts from the FDA.

The FDA is subordinate to the US Department of Health and Human Services and monitors food and drugs. The FDA has now had to admit that it has no scientific evidence that could prove the existence of the "bird flu virus".

Nevertheless, it has authorised the PCR test.
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FDA hat keinen Beweis für Existenz der Vogelgrippe

Die FDA weiß zwar, dass die Vogelgrippe „hochansteckend“ ist und hat die PCR-Tests zugelassen, kann allerdings keinen wissenschaftlichen Beweis für das Virus vorlegen. Über […]
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There is however a flash stuck in my head, where Dr David Martin mentioned just a couple weeks ago; him being an expert on Big Pharma countless patents and whereabouts, and he said something in line with; You can in can order the "current" Bird Flu strain via a company (i don't remember the name; something like BHI or BIH ?!) - because it is and has been in their catalogue... since 2016 !

So, there is that.
 
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Dr Sabine Stebel published (the text below) via her Telegram channel; the woman who is like a truffle pig and finds just about anything impossible you can think of when it comes to genetic related science and "science" as well illness pathways and molekular genetics. Her knowledge in those fields are almost unparalleled.

She is also the author of the book "Einmal mit Profi's arbeiten - Ugur's Confession" [Working with professionals for once - or Ugur's confession] - obliterating BionTech's CEO book contents down to atomic levels; revealing the blatant lies and almost absurd errors in the modRNA "vaccines" he created for Pfizer. Countless errors which high school students in molecular genetics are taught to be avoided. She wrote that book as an assistant (together with her substack material), as her main audience are medical lawyers !!


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The American FDA has no proof of the existence of bird flu!



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FDA hat keinen Beweis für Existenz der Vogelgrippe

Die FDA weiß zwar, dass die Vogelgrippe „hochansteckend“ ist und hat die PCR-Tests zugelassen, kann allerdings keinen wissenschaftlichen Beweis für das Virus vorlegen. Über […]
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There is however a flash stuck in my head, where Dr David Martin mentioned just a couple weeks ago; him being an expert on Big Pharma countless patents and whereabouts, and he said something in line with; You can in can order the "current" Bird Flu strain via a company (i don't remember the name; something like BHI or BIH ?!) - because it is and has been in their catalogue... since 2016 !

So, there is that.
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So maybe it's more of the same 'there is no virus' narrative that we saw with covid?
 
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So maybe it's more of the same 'there is no virus' narrative that we saw with covid?
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Well Dr Sabine Stebel is no virus denier in any way

She works / is schooled in viral material and recombinations as well manipulations. What is, what can, and what cannot, and - the things that shouldn't be done.

It is just that the authorities (FDA) couldn't show proof of the specific specimen - which in itself is interesting. Did they hide it because it is a manipulated strain, aka. bioweapon manipulated stuff (wouldn't be a first, wouldn't it ?) And how do you make modRNA injections based on something that doesn't exist naturally ? (WE know the purpose by now, has nothing to do with protecting anything - but to damage humans).

Leading to the question; that they likely create strains at the computer (again) with unlike combinations not even nature ever would do. I believe that Dr Stebel also spoke about the origin of the viruses - that at the time of 2019/early 2020 there was indeed no real strain at hand, when they created the modRNA injections for Covid (as well earlier). It is one thing to "download" a strain from the database (the 'China database' where it first appeared), and another thing to have the original strain in the lab. The mRNA C-19 jabs are based on a patchwork of different - albeit still - computer based genetic code snippets patched together.

There are still open questions if such a patchwork of genetic code ("frankenstein virus") actually can function as a virus and multiply naturally, or if it needs to be spread/spayed (etc) in order to "spread". Remember, that the patterns of appearance of Sars-cov-2 were anything but natural. Those who had the brains back then, said - virus do not spread like that around the world in the patterns we saw. Also; if you manipulate a virus too far, it looses it original functionality the way it spreads naturally.

Even Dr Sucharit Bhakdi has said in a more recent interview (i believe it was Kai Stuht who interviewed him in the series "100 doctors", aka medicals and other people), that all of the major covid-19 strains, have been unnatural strains.

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As we know, PCR tests are simply no proof of virus existence. Because it isn't the proper tool to show prof of RNA viruses.It is now a tool that has been weaponized, by being used to show anything and everything. A faksimil used against humans though tests on waste water, humans and animals (and god knows what else) to show "proof".... that ain't proof. Which also the intentor Kary Mullis said, that the PCR test is no tool for diagnosis nor to be used for proof of (RNA) virus' existence.
 
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Forbes confirms the continued destruction of the food system.

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Bird Flu (H5N1) Explained: CDC Reports First Case With No Known Animal Exposure

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man contracted the virus from sick cows. Here’s why so many experts are worried about a possible new pandemic.
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Topline​

Here’s the latest news about a global outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that started in 2020, and recently spread among cattle in U.S. states and marine mammals across the world, which health officials are closely monitoring and experts are concerned the virus could mutate and eventually spread to more humans, where it has proven rare but deadly.

Timeline​

September 6 -The first case of the bird flu with “no immediate known animal exposure” was confirmed in a Missouri resident who was hospitalized, recovered and had no known work-related exposure to sick animals, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services reported the infection was detected as part of the state’s standard flu surveillance system, unlike the targeted H5N1 surveillance program that has typically surveyed farm workers.

August 30-Three dairies in central California detected the bird flu virus among its herds and have been quarantined, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, which noted there are no human bird flu cases related to the incident, as well as no threat to the milk and food supply.

August 29-The July bird flu outbreaks in two Colorado poultry facilities were the country’s first known human cluster of cases caused by poultry—infections were just one-off in the past—though there was no reported human-to-human transmission, according to a new report by the CDC.

July 25-Three more human infections were confirmed in workers from a second Colorado poultry facility, bringing the country’s total case count to 14 since 2022, according to CDC data.

July 24-A new Nature study found bird flu spread among cows in the U.S., and the animals also spread the virus to cats and raccoons; this is one of the first studies confirming mammal-to-mammal bird flu transmission.

July 19-The CDC confirmed an additional two bird flu cases in poultry farm workers from the same facility in Colorado, bringing the country’s total human case count to 11.

July 15-Officials confirmed a fourth bird flu case in a poultry farm worker on the same Colorado farm from last week, and a fifth suspected case is pending confirmation from the CDC. This brings the national number to nine since the first human cases was detected in the state in 2022, with eight of the cases reported this year.

July 12-Colorado authorities announced three workers in a commercial egg operation have presumptive positive cases of bird flu, bringing the state’s count of known human infections up to as high as five—and the national number to seven—though authorities said none of the workers have been hospitalized, and showed “common respiratory infection symptoms” and pink eye. It’s the first time multiple cases have been recorded at the same location.

July 3-Colorado health officials confirmed the state’s second human case of bird flu in a dairy farm worker who has since recovered and only had mild symptoms, reporting pink eye.

June 25-Finland said it plans to begin vaccinating vulnerable populations like farm workers against bird flu as early as next week using 10,000 vaccine series—each with two doses—acquired as part of a European Union deal with vaccine maker CSL Seqirus to provide up to 40 million vaccines to 15 countries.

June 11-The World Health Organization announced a four-year-old child in India was infected with H9N2 bird flu—a different flu strain from H5N1—but recovered after suffering from seizures, respiratory distress, fever and abdominal cramps; H9N2 has infected around 100 people globally since 1998, and this is the second human case in India.

June 6-Dozens of cows infected with bird flu have either died or been slaughtered in Colorado, Ohio, Michigan, South Carolina and Texas, which is unusual since—unlike poultry—cows cost more to slaughter and around 90% usually make a full recovery, Reuters reported.

June 5-A new study examining the 2023 bird flu outbreak in South America that killed around 17,400 elephant seal pups and 24,000 sea lions found the disease spread between the animals in several countries, the first known case of transnational virus mammal-to-mammal bird flu transmission.

May 30-Another human case of bird flu has been detected in a dairy farm worker in Michigan—though the cases aren’t connected—and this is the first person in the U.S. to report respiratory symptoms connected to bird flu, though their symptoms are “resolving,” according to the CDC.

May 23-A new study with mice suggests that drinking infected milk can spread the disease—and that a certain type of pasteurization may not always be effective in killing the virus.

May 22-Michigan reported bird flu in a farmworker—the second U.S. human case tied to transmission from dairy cows—though the worker had a mild infection and has since recovered.

May 21-Australia reported its first human case of bird flu after a child became infected in March after traveling to India, though the child has since recovered after suffering from a “severe infection,” according to the Victorian Department of Health.

May 16-The USDA conducted a study, and discovered that after high levels of the virus was injected into beef, no trace was left after the meat was cooked medium to well done, though the virus was found in meat cooked to lower temperatures.

May 14-The CDC released influenza A waste water data for the weeks ending in April 27 and May 4, and found several states like Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois and Kansas had unusually high levels, though the agency isn’t sure if the virus came from humans or animals, and isn’t able to differentiate between influenza A subtypes, meaning the H5N1 virus or other subtypes may have been detected.

May 10-The Food and Drug Administration announced it will commit an additional $8 million to ensure the commercial milk supply is safe, while the Department of Agriculture said it will pay up to $28,000 per farm to help mitigate the spread of the disease, totaling around $98 million in funds.

May 9-Some 70 people in Colorado are being monitored for bird flu due to potential exposure, and will be tested for the virus if they show any symptoms, the Colorado Department of Public Health told Forbes—it was not immediately clear how or when the people were potentially exposed.

May 1-The Department of Agriculture said it tested 30 grocery store ground beef products for bird flu and they all came back negative, reaffirming the meat supply is safe.

May 1-The Food and Drug Administration confirmed dairy products are still safe to consume, announcing it tested grocery store samples of products like infant formula, toddler milk, sour cream and cottage cheese, and no live traces of the bird flu virus were found, although some dead remnants were found in some of the food—though none in the baby products.

April 30-Wenqing Zhang, head of WHO's Global Influenza Programme, said during a news briefing "there is a risk for cows in other countries to be getting infected," with the bird flu virus, since it’s commonly spread through the movement of migratory birds.

April 29-The Department of Agriculture told Forbes it will begin testing ground beef samples from grocery stores in states with cow outbreaks, and test ground beef cooked at different temperatures and infected with the virus to determine if it's safe to eat.

April 24-The USDA said cow-to-cow transmission may be occurring due to the cows coming into contact with raw milk—and warned against humans and other animals, including pets, consuming unpasteurized milk to prevent potential infection.

April 18-Jeremy Farrar, chief scientist for the World Health Organization, said during a press conference the threat of bird flu spreading between humans was a “great concern,” since it’s evolved and has increasingly been infecting mammals (on land and sea), which means it could possibly spread to humans.

April 1-The CDC reported the second U.S. human case of bird flu in a Texas dairy farmer who became infected after contracting the virus from infected dairy cows, but said the person was already recovering.

Can Bird Flu Spread Between Humans?​

Bird flu doesn’t “transmit easily from person-to-person,” according to the World Health Organization. Bird flu rarely affects humans, and most previous cases came from close contact with infected poultry, according to the CDC. Because human-to-human spread of bird flu poses “pandemic potential,” each human case is investigated to rule out this type of infection. Though none have been confirmed, there are a few global cases—none in the U.S.—where human-to-human transmission of bird flu was thought to be “probable,” including in China, Thailand, Indonesia and Pakistan.

Is Bird Flu Fatal To Humans?​

It is very deadly. Between January 2003 and March 28, 2024 there have been 888 human cases of bird flu infection in humans, according to a report by the World Health Organization. Of those 888 cases, 463 (52%) died. To date, only two people in the U.S. have contracted H5N1 bird flu, and they both were infected after coming into contact with sick animals. The most recent case was a dairy worker in Texas who became ill in March after interacting with sick dairy cows, though he only experienced pink eye. The first incident happened in 2022 when a person in Colorado contracted the disease from infected poultry, and fully recovered.

Is It Safe To Drink Milk Infected With Bird Flu?​

Raw, unpasteurized milk is unsafe to drink, but pasteurized milk is fine, according to the FDA. Bird flu has been detected in both unpasteurized and pasteurized milk, but the FDA recommends manufacturers against making and selling unpasteurized milk since there’s a possibility consuming it may cause bird flu infection. However, the virus remnants in pasteurized milk have been deactivated by the heat during the pasteurization process, so this type of milk is still believed safe to consume.

Is It Safe To Consume Meat Infected With Bird Flu?​

The CDC warns against eating raw meat or eggs from animals “confirmed or suspected” of having bird flu because of the possibility of transmission. However, no human has ever been infected with bird flu from eating properly prepared and cooked meat, according to the agency. The possibility of infected meat entering the food supply is “extremely low” due to rigorous inspection, so properly handled and cooked meat is safe to eat, according to the USDA. To know when meat is properly cooked, whole beef cuts must be cooked to an internal temperature of 145 degrees Fahrenheit, ground meat must be 160 degrees and poultry must be cooked to 165 degrees. Rare and medium rare steaks fall below this temperature. Properly cooked eggs with an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit kills bacteria and viruses including bird flu, according to the CDC. “It doesn’t matter if they may or may not have [avian] influenza… runny eggs and rare pieces of meat” are never recommended, Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, director and professor for the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, told Forbes. To “play it safe,” consumers should only eat fully cooked eggs and make sure “the yolks are firm with no runny parts,” Daisy May, veterinary surgeon with U.K.-based company Medivet, said.

What Are Bird Flu Symptoms In Humans?​

Symptoms of bird flu include a fever, cough, headache, chills, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, runny nose, congestion, sore throat, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, pink eye, muscle aches and headache. However, the CDC advises it can’t be diagnosed based on symptoms alone, and laboratory testing is needed. This typically includes swabbing the nose or throat (the upper respiratory tract), or the lower respiratory tract for critically ill patients.

How Is Bird Flu Affecting Egg Prices?​

This year’s egg prices have increased as production decreased due to bird flu outbreaks among poultry, according to the USDA. A dozen large, grade A eggs in the U.S. costed around $2.99 in March, up almost a dollar from the fall. However, this price is down from a record $4.82 in January 2023, which was also spiked by bird flu outbreaks. Earlier this month, Cal-Maine Foods—the country’s largest egg producer—temporarily halted egg production after over one million egg-laying hens and chickens were killed after being infected with bird flu.

Why Do Poultry Farmers Kill Chickens With Bird Flu?​

Once chickens have been infected with bird flu, farmers quickly kill them to help control the spread of the virus, since bird flu is highly contagious and fatal in poultry. The USDA pays farmers for all birds and eggs that have to be killed because of bird flu, as an incentive to responsibly try and curb the spread of the disease. The USDA has spent over $1 billion in bird flu compensation for farmers since 2022, according to the nonprofit Food & Environment Reporting Network.

Is There A Vaccine For The Bird Flu (h5n1)?​

The FDA has approved a few bird flu vaccines for humans. The U.S. has a stockpile of vaccines for H5N1 bird flu, but it wouldn’t be enough to vaccinate all Americans if an outbreak were to happen among humans. If a human outbreak does occur, the government plans to mass produce vaccines, which can take at least six months to make enough for the entire population. CSL Seqirus, the maker of one of the approved vaccines, expects to have 150 million vaccines ready within six months of an announcement of a human bird flu pandemic. Although there are approved vaccines for other variants designed for birds, there are none for the H5N1 variant circulating. However, the USDA began trials on H5N1 animal-specific vaccines in 2023.

Key Background​

As of May 30, more than 92 million poultry (primarily chickens) in 48 states have been euthanized because of bird flu since 2022, and 57 dairy cow herds across nine states have tested positive, according to data from the CDC (unlike chickens, cows appear to recover from the virus). The USDA believes wild migratory birds are the original source of the cow outbreaks that recently has experts concerned it may mutate and spread more easily in humans, though the CDC said its risk to the public remains low. Farrar called the cattle infections in the U.S. a “huge concern,” urging public health officials to continue closely monitoring the situation “because it may evolve into transmitting in different ways.” The increased number of mammal bird flu infections since 2022 “could indicate that the virus is looking for new hosts, and of course, moving closer to people,” Andrea Garcia, vice president of science, medicine and public health for the American Medical Association, said. The first report of a walrus dying from bird flu was detected in April on one of Norway’s Arctic Islands, and the first U.S. dolphin infected with bird flu died back in 2022, according to a report published April 18. More than 10 human bird flu cases were reported to the World Health Organization in 2023, and all but one survived. Bird flu has devastated bird populations, and 67 countries reported the deaths of 131 million poultry in 2022 alone. Although bird flu typically infects wild birds and poultry, it’s spread to other animals during the outbreak, and at least 10 countries have reported outbreaks in mammals since 2022. Around 17,400 elephant seal pups died from bird flu in Argentina in 2023, and at least 24,000 sea lions died in South America the same year. Besides cattle, bird flu has been detected in over 200 other mammals—like seals, raccoons and bears—in the U.S. since 2022. Although rare, even domestic pets like dogs and cats are susceptible to the virus, and the FDA warns against giving unpasteurized milk to cats to avoid possible transmission.

Tangent​

On June 5, WHO confirmed the first human death of a strain of bird flu that’s never before been seen in humans and is separate from H5N1. A 59-year-old man in Mexico contracted H5N2, and died on April 24 after being hospitalized and developing a fever, diarrhea, nausea, shortness of breath and general discomfort. Cases of H5N2 have been reported in poultry in Mexico, but the man had no history with poultry or animals, WHO said. It’s unclear how he became infected. He was bedridden for weeks prior to the infection, and suffered from several other health conditions.
Further Reading
Another Bird Flu Variant Reaches Humans: What To Know About H5N2—After First-Ever Confirmed Death
WHO Warns Threat Of Bird Flu Spreading To Humans Is ‘Great Concern’ (Forbes)
One In Five Milk Samples From Across US Had Traces Of Bird Flu Virus, FDA Says (Forbes)
Can Pets Get Bird Flu? Here’s What To Know (Forbes)
Avian H5N1 (Bird) Flu: Why Experts Are Worried—And What You Should Know (Forbes)
 
Newsom declares bird flu state of emergency in California:


California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an emergency proclamation on Wednesday in response to growing concerns over bird flu cases in the state and across the country.

The State of Emergency proclamation comes after more bird flu cases were detected in Southern California dairy cows, the governor's office stated. Wednesday also saw the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report the first severe illness in a person due to bird flu from a Louisiana case.

"This proclamation is a targeted action to ensure government agencies have the resources and flexibility they need to respond quickly to this outbreak," Newsom said in a statement.

The threat to birds has been happening for a couple of years now, with wildlife hospitals observing strict infection precautions. But then it jumped to cattle, specifically dairy cattle, where bio-security measures are only now beginning to be imposed.

"We have about 600 dairies inside California right now that are in quarantine because of avian influenza," said Dr. Michael Payne, a large animal researcher at UC Davis.

Payne said the virus has mutated to infect cattle, making them sick but not killing them.

"When it does infect them, especially lactating cows, milk cows, the virus can be excreted in concentrations inside the milk," Payne said. "And that is what we're worried about from a public health standpoint."

As health and public officials note, to date there have been no recorded cases of person-to-person spread of bird flu in California or anywhere else.

Bird flu in humans​

Across the US, the CDC has recorded a total of 61 human cases of bird flu across 16 states so far – with more than half of those cases, 34, being in California.

"It's a pandemic already in birds, and what we're trying to do is prevent it becoming a pandemic in humans," said UC San Francisco infectious disease specialist, Dr. Peter Chin-Hong. "Right now, it's a dead end in terms of getting into humans because it hasn't figured out the right key to unlock the door into our bodies. But the more transmissions that occur–like in dairy cows, like in birds–the more it's going to randomly figure out that mutant, that variant, that can cause more human-to-human transmission."

While not linked to any known human case, one California raw milk dairy issued a voluntary recall earlier in December after bird flu was detected in a lot. Still, health officials have long warned against consuming unpasteurized milk due to bacteria concerns.

Newsom also noted that California has already implemented an effort to combat bird flu by working with dairy and poultry farms to minimize farm worker exposure. Many of the confirmed cases of bird flu are linked to dairy and poultry workers, health officials have said.

"While the risk to the public remains low, we will continue to take all necessary steps to prevent the spread of this virus," Newsom said in a statement.

As with other emergency proclamations, Newsom noted the action will open up funding for state and local agencies to respond to the bird flu situation.

California wasn't the first state to declare an emergency over the bird flu. Earlier in 2024, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued an emergency declaration for Weld County due to an outbreak there.

The current bird flu outbreak started in 2022. Since that time, officials say more than 100 million birds have been culled by poultry farms to try and stem the disease's spread.

Is the bird flu deadly?​

H5N1 bird flu viruses are considered particularly deadly when it comes to human infections, prompting the cause for concern from public health leaders.

According to World Health Organization numbers, there have been more than 860 recorded human infections of bird flu across 19 countries since 2003 – with about 53 percent of those cases resulting in death. No deaths in the US have been reported as part of the recent outbreak.

Common human symptoms of bird flu infection are similar to the flu. The severity of the symptoms can range from none to severe.
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iamthatis said:
Newsom declares bird flu state of emergency in California:
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It always starts with a few strategically placed warnings interleaved with global events.
Then, suddenly:
  1. The government needs to do something about it!
  2. YOU need to do something about it!
  3. Together, WE will save the world!
  4. But if YOU don't help us,
  5. YOU are a terrorist,
  6. YOU are the problem,
  7. And YOU will be eliminated!
 
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Bird Flu Outbreak Sparks Theories Linking US Government to Russian General’s Comments - TheRecentTimes

Bird flu outbreak prompts theories after late Russian General Igor Kirillov's claims of U.S. biological warfare surface online.
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"As officials scramble to contain the outbreak, online conspiracy theories have gained traction. Some social media users are connecting the current crisis to comments made by the late Russian General Igor Kirillov. Kirillov, who led Russia’s Radiation, Biological, and Chemical Defense Forces, was killed earlier this week in an explosion outside a Moscow residential building.

In May 2023, Kirillov claimed that the Russian military had obtained samples of avian influenza from a U.S. Department of Defense laboratory in Ukraine’s Kherson region. According to Kirillov, these samples suggested a possible U.S. plan to develop biological weapons. Documents related to his allegations have resurfaced amid the current bird flu outbreak, sparking fresh concerns and fueling speculation online."
 
Can't help but think that the Controversy of Zion playbook is moving ahead, and bird flu or is playing its part in the general destruction of beef agriculture, which the PTB really seem to hate.

7. To complete the ruin of the industry of the Goyim we shall bring, to the assistance of speculation, the luxury which we have encouraged among theGoyim: that greedy demand for luxury which is swallowing up everything.

We shall raise the rate of wages. However this will not bring any advantage to the workers, because at the same time, we shall also cause a rise in prices ofi tems that are essential to life. We shall claim that these increases were caused by a decline in agriculture and cattle breeding. We shall, craftily and thoroughly, further undermine sources of production, by accustoming the workers to anarchy and to drunkenness. Additionally we shall take all measures to uproot all the educated forces of the Goyim from the face of the earth.
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Nienna said:
Yes. Douglas Reed's The Controversy of Zion has been brought to my mind, too, while seeing the things being done nowadays.
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Oops, I meant the Protocols playbook. But yeah. Quite the black pill to see that all the BS these days isn't just incompetence, but consciously directed malice.
 
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