ALERT The next plandemic: H5N1 Bird Flu

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I know we have some threads referencing this here, but I want to post this here for the warning and historical purposes. According to this video, the H5N1 Bird flu is scheduled as the next plandemic, "the one to make us really afraid". After watching this, and not one to take things at face value, I started looking for references to H5N1 in the mainstream news, and the fear articles are popping up more and more frequently. I'm going to centralize as many of these articles on this thread as I can, so that we can hopefully watch this unfold and try to get ahead of it. Feel free to add articles you come across as well so that we can have as complete a repository as possible.

In short, gain of function on H5N1 is complete, it will soon be released, the .gov has already purchased the "vaccine" for H5N1 "just in case it becomes a pandemic", and this is what will be used to lock us down again prior to the election, bring in the vax passports, etc. etc.

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CDC Article:​

Avian Influenza A(H5N1) U.S. Situation Update and CDC Activities​

Current Situation Highlights Importance of Preventive Measures for People with Exposures
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April 19, 2024 – CDC continues to respond to the public health challenge posed by the outbreak of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, or “H5N1 bird flu” in dairy cows and other animals in the U.S. CDC is collaborating with partners including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and state public health and animal health officials to address this emerging infectious disease using a One Health approach. USDA is now reporting that eight U.S. states have outbreaks in dairy cattle and that the virus has spread through cattle movement between herds and also from dairy cattle premises into nearby poultry premises and has infected a number of barn cats. However, only one associated human case to date has been linked with this outbreak in dairy cows and was reported by Texas on April 1, 2024.[1] CDC’s response to this unprecedented outbreak of influenza A(H5N1) in dairy cattle and other animals most recently includes:
  • Supporting states monitoring people with exposure to cows, birds, or other domestic or wild animals infected or potentially infected with influenza A(H5N1) viruses. Testing for these people is being done by state or local officials using a CDC test, and CDC is conducting confirmatory testing when needed.
  • Continuing to work in the laboratory to better characterize the virus from the human case in Texas. This week CDC completed susceptibility testing for influenza antiviral medications that are used for seasonal influenza (e.g., the neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir, zanamivir and peramivir). Testing confirmed that the A(H5N1) virus was susceptible to all commercially available FDA-approved and recommended neuraminidase inhibitor antivirals. Testing to confirm susceptibility to baloxavir marboxil, a different antiviral medication, takes longer and is ongoing.
  • Studying human sera (blood) from people vaccinated against A(H5) to confirm that existing A(H5N1) candidate vaccine viruses (CVVs) will provide protection against the A(H5N1) virus isolated from the human case in Texas. Manufacturers could use these CVVs to make a vaccine if needed. Preliminary genetic analysis had suggested two existing CDC CVVs would offer protection against the virus isolated from the human case in Texas.
  • Designing an epidemiological field study and preparing a multilingual and multidisciplinary team to travel on site to better understand the current outbreak, particularly the public health and One Health implications of the emergence of this virus in cattle.
  • Engaging One Health partner organizations from public health, agriculture, milk regulatory officials, and others to share information and ensure preparedness to prevent and respond to this emerging infectious disease threat and for any potential human infections.
  • Monitoring emergency department data and flu testing data in areas where A(H5N1) bird flu viruses have been detected in dairy cattle or other animals for any unusual trends in flu-like illness, flu, or conjunctivitis. So far, these data remain in expected ranges, and to date, surveillance systems do not show any unusual trends or activity.
This is a rapidly changing, emerging situation and CDC is committed to providing frequent and timely updates.

What Might Happen​

The wide geographic spread of A(H5N1) bird flu viruses in wild birds, poultry, and some other mammals, including in cows, is creating additional opportunities for people to be exposed to these viruses. Therefore, there could be an increase in sporadic human infections resulting from bird, cattle, and other animal exposures, even if the risk of these viruses spreading to people has not increased. Sporadic human infections in the current context would not significantly change CDC’s risk assessment.

What Would Increase Public Health Risk​

Identification of multiple simultaneous instances of A(H5N1) bird flu viruses spreading from birds, cattle, or other animals to people or certain genetic changes in circulating viruses could change CDC’s risk assessment because they could indicate the virus is adapting to spread more easily from animals to people. Additionally, if limited, non-sustained, person-to-person spread with this virus were to occur, that would also raise the public health threat because it could mean the virus is adapting to spread between people. Sustained person-to-person spread is needed for a pandemic to occur.

Because of the potential for influenza viruses to constantly change, continued surveillance and preparedness efforts are critical, and CDC is taking measures to be ready in case the current risk assessment for the general public changes. The immediate goal is to prevent further spread of this virus between animals and people. CDC will continue to monitor these viruses and update and adjust guidance as needed. As a reminder, while CDC believes the current risk of A(H5N1) infection to the general public remains low, people with close, prolonged, or unprotected exposures to infected birds, cattle, or other animals, or to environments contaminated by infected birds, cattle, or other animals, are at a greater risk of infection. CDC has interim recommendations for prevention, monitoring, and public health investigations of A(H5N1) viruses. CDC also has recommendations for worker protection and use of personal protective equipment (PPE) to reduce the risk of exposure. Compliance with these recommendations is central to containing the public health risk. Additionally, unpasteurized (“raw”) milk from sick cattle has tested positive for A(H5N1) viruses. Consumption of raw milk can be dangerous and is not recommended. The FDA has Questions and Answers Regarding Milk Safety During Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Outbreaks | FDA.

[1] The first human case of A(H5N1) bird flu in the United States was reported in 2022 in a person in Colorado who had direct exposure to poultry and was involved in the depopulating of poultry with presumptive A(H5N1) bird flu. The person recovered. Learn more at U.S. Case of Human Avian Influenza A(H5) Virus Reported | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC.

 

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20% Of Retail Milk Samples Positive For Bird Flu: FDA​

BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, APR 26, 2024 - 11:05 AM

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

One in five samples of milk from grocery store shelves tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced late April 25.

A dairy cow at a dairy farm in Ohio, on December 12, 2014. (Aaron Josefczuk/Reuters)

In a brief 237-word update, the FDA said that initial results from a national commercial milk sampling study “show about 1 in 5 of the retail samples tested are quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)-positive for HPAI viral fragments, with a greater proportion of positive results coming from milk in areas with infected herds.”

The FDA has refused to disclose how many samples it tested and from which stores the samples came, and a Freedom of Information Act request for the information has not yet yielded results.

Thirty-three cattle herds across eight states—Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, and Texas—have tested positive for avian influenza, commonly known as the bird flu, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Poultry in Minnesota and a person in Texas have also become infected with the same genotype of the H5N1 avian influenza strain found in cattle.

Authorities have stressed that positive results from qPCR testing do not mean the pasteurized milk contains intact virus, because the testing can return positive based on fragments of residual virus.

Additional testing is required to determine whether intact pathogen is still present and if it remains infectious, which would help inform a determination of whether there is any risk of illness associated with consuming the product,” the FDA said.

Testing includes injecting eggs with samples that tested positive and seeing whether any active virus replicates.

In another round of testing, conducted by a team from Ohio State University, 58 of 150 milk samples gathered from grocery stores across six states tested positive for bird flu.

“We’ve screened them for the presence of influenza genetic material, so the viral RNA. Those that have tested positive, we have been forwarded to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where they are conducting studies to see if there’s a viable virus in there. To date, none of them have been viable, but certainly they give the indication that there is viral genetic material in the region,” Dr. Andrew Bowman, an associate professor at Ohio State University, told the Bovine Veterinarian magazine.

The fact that you can go into a supermarket and 30 percent to 40 percent of those samples test positive, that suggests there’s more of the virus around than is currently being recognized,” Richard Webby, a virologist at St. Jude’s, told STAT News.

The FDA has said it will release more details about the testing in the future. Raw milk from farms with affected cows has also tested positive for bird flu.

Authorities initially said that pasteurized milk was definitely safe but have since acknowledged that they’re not sure whether milk in grocery stores contains live bird flu virus. The FDA announced Tuesday that some samples tested positive for the influenza.

Officials say it’s still safe to drink milk but some outside experts, including former U.S. government official Rick Bright, have said they’re going to hold off until more information is made public about the outbreak.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture only required testing dairy cows showing symptoms of the flu but, starting Monday will require lactating cows to test negative before being moved across state lines.

The flu originated in birds but has since moved to other animals, including cattle and goats.

The person in Texas, and an individual in Colorado who became sick in 2022, are the only humans with confirmed cases of the H5N1 version in the United States.

Monitoring of people who have come into contact with animals has only covered 44 people so far, Sonja Olsen, an epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told an Association of State and Territorial Health Officials webinar this week. Twenty-three people who showed symptoms were tested. The person in Texas, a farm worker, has been the only person to test positive so far.

 

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How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic​

Story by Grace Wade
• 1h • 3 min read [posted 26 APR 24]

As a bird flu virus continues to spread among dairy cattle in the US, the country’s health agencies are actively preparing for the possibility of an outbreak in people.

“The risk [of bird flu] remains low at this time, but we continue to be in a strong readiness posture as new data becomes available,” said Vivien Dugan at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at a meeting of health officials on 25 April.

A top priority is tracking the virus’s spread. So far, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed H5N1, a subtype of the bird flu virus, in dairy cows on 33 farms across eight states, and in six cats on farms in three of those states.

How prepared is the world for a pandemic of bird flu in people?
Genetic sequencing found that only one of the 260 samples from sick dairy cows so far has a mutation indicating H5N1 has adapted to infecting mammals, said Rosemary Sifford at the USDA during the meeting. However, this marker has been seen before in other sick mammals, and it didn’t impact the ability of the virus to transmit between mammals. Plus, the other 10 samples from the same herd where this one was collected didn’t have the same mutation.

“It very much remains an avian virus with no significant changes… In other words, it is not becoming a [cow] virus,” said Sifford.

The CDC has tested 23 people with close contact to the animals for the virus, according to data presented at the meeting. Only one of them was positive – a dairy worker in Texas whose only symptom was eye redness. To boost testing capabilities, the CDC recently increased funding to genetic sequencing centres in six states, said Dugan.

Another key measure being taken is ensuring the safety of the milk supply in the US. Milk from infected cattle contains high amounts of the virus. While milk from sick animals shouldn’t be entering the milk supply, initial testing from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found that 1 in 5 milk samples contain genetic traces of bird flu.

“Importantly, that doesn’t mean the samples contain intact, infective virus,” said Donald Prater at the FDA. The testing method used detects any genetic material, including that of dead virus.

he vast majority of milk sold in the US is pasteurised, a process that kills pathogens with high heat. No study has assessed pasteurisation’s effectiveness against H5N1, but studies of similar influenza viruses suggest it would be, said Prater. This is why people should avoid consuming or touching raw milk products.

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Two vaccine candidates for H5N1 are also in the works. Initial testing by the CDC indicates both are effective in lab tests against the current strain in cattle, said Dugan.

As part of a pre-established protocol, the US Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) is stockpiling materials for a bird flu vaccine, said David Boucher at ASPR in the meeting. This includes manufacturing the part of the vaccine, called the antigen, that mounts an immune response to the virus. ASPR and its commercial partners have already filled hundreds of thousands of vaccines for H5N1 that, if needed, can be quickly dispensed for clinical testing or emergency use, he said.


“Based on the CDC’s current risk of the situation, vaccination is not a tool needed at this time. We do want to be ready if that changes, though,” said Boucher. Enough material is stockpiled to churn out an additional 10 million doses, too. And ASPR has contracts with vaccine manufacturers to ramp up production even more so if necessary.

“If we need to pull any of these levers, we are ready to do so,” said Boucher.

 

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Pandemic experts express concern over avian influenza spread to humans​

The ongoing global spread of “bird flu” infections to mammals including humans is a significant public health concern, WHO medics warn.

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The ongoing global spread of “bird flu” infections to mammals including humans is a significant public health concern, WHO medics warn.
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The ongoing global spread of “bird flu” infections to mammals including humans is a significant public health concern, senior UN medics said on Thursday as they announced new measures to tackle airborne diseases.

Dr. Jeremy Farrar, chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the avian influenza virus, which is also known as H5N1, has had an “extremely high” mortality rate among the several hundred people known to have been infected with it to date.

However, no human-to-human H5N1 transmission has yet been recorded.
“H5N1 is (an) influenza infection, predominantly started in poultry and ducks and has spread effectively over the course of the last one or two years to become a global zoonotic – animal – pandemic,” he said.
“The great concern, of course, is that in doing so and infecting ducks and chickens – but now increasingly mammals – that that virus now evolves and develops the ability to infect humans. And then critically, the ability to go from human-to-human transmission.”

Cattle mystery

Commenting on an ongoing outbreak of the H5N1 virus among dairy cows in the United States, the WHO senior official urged further close monitoring and investigation by public health authorities “because it may evolve into transmitting in different ways”.

“Do the milking structures of cows create aerosols? Is it the environment which they’re living in? Is it the transport system that is spreading this around the country?" he asked. "This is a huge concern and I think we have to … make sure that if H5N1 did come across to humans with human-to-human transmission that we were in a position to immediately respond with access equitably to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics.”
Cows graze near a drilling rig in Texas, USA.

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Cows graze near a drilling rig in Texas, USA.

Equal to next pandemic

The development comes as WHO announced updated language to describe airborne pathogens in a bid to increase international cooperation in the event of a new and expected global pandemic.
The initiative was originally sparked by the COVID-19 emergency and the recognition that there was a lack of commonly agreed terms among medics and scientists to describe how the coronavirus was transmitted, which increased the challenge of overcoming it, Dr. Farrar explained.

Global appeal

To counter this, WHO led consultations with four major public health agencies from Africa, China, Europe and the United States before announcing agreement on a number of new terms. These include “infectious respiratory particles” or “IRPs”, which should be used instead of “aerosols” and “droplets” to avoid any confusion about the size of the particles involved.
Over and above the new terminology, the initiative cements the commitment of the international community to tackle ever “more complex and more frequent epidemics and pandemics”, Dr. Farrar told journalists in Geneva.
“It's a hugely important first step. But next, we need to keep the disciplines, the experts together.
"We're using the same terminology, the same language and now we need to do the science that provides the evidence on tuberculosis, on COVID and other respiratory pathogens so that we know how to control those infections better than we have done in the past.”

On the potential HN51 public health risk, the WHO chief scientist cautioned that vaccine development was not “where we need to be”. Neither was it the case that regional offices and country offices and public health authorities around the world have the capability to diagnose H5N1, he noted.

 

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Bird flu could jump to humans any day. A former surgeon general says it feels like 2020 again.​

Story by mmcfalljohnsen@businessinsider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen)
• 1d [posted 25APR24]• 4 min read


Scientists collect organic material from a dead porpoise on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, during a bird flu outbreak in São José do Norte, Brazil. Diego Vara/Reuters

Scientists collect organic material from a dead porpoise on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, during a bird flu outbreak in São José do Norte, Brazil. Diego Vara/Reuters© Diego Vara/Reuters
  • The H5N1 bird flu virus is spreading through US cattle herds for the first time.
  • The mammal-to-mammal transmission has scientists worried the virus could mutate to spread between humans.
  • Former surgeon general Jerome Adams fears the US is making the mistakes of 2020 all over again.
Bird flu is flying wild. In recent months the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus has been spreading through US cattle herds for the first time ever.


The cow-to-cow transmission is the latest escalation in a global outbreak that began when the virus reemerged in Europe in 2020. It has since killed tens of millions of birds and more than 40,000 sea lions and seals in South America.

World Health Organization chief scientist Jeremy Farrar called this an "animal pandemic" on April 18.

Genetic fragments of the virus, discovered in grocery store milk on Tuesday, suggest the cattle outbreak is more widespread than officials believed, The Washington Post reported.

Experts told the Post that drinking pasteurized milk is probably still safe. Pasteurization deactivates pathogens, probably including H5N1, according to the Food and Drug Administration. However, no studies have specifically tested whether pasteurizing milk deactivates H5N1. According to the New York Times, the FDA is testing that now.

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A cow looks up from its feed at the Johann Dairy farm in Fresno, California. Nathan Frandino/Reuters

A cow looks up from its feed at the Johann Dairy farm in Fresno, California. Nathan Frandino/Reuters© Nathan Frandino/Reuters
One human in Texas has tested positive for the virus after exposure to dairy cattle. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that person's only symptom was eye redness.

There has been no known human-to-human transmission. Still, future mutation could allow the virus to spread more easily to and between humans — a possibility of "great concern" to Farrar.

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Bill Powers with his flock of white turkeys, kept under shelter to prevent exposure to bird flu, in Townsend, Delaware. Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Bill Powers with his flock of white turkeys, kept under shelter to prevent exposure to bird flu, in Townsend, Delaware. Nathan Howard/Getty Images© Nathan Howard/Getty Images
Dr. Jerome Adams, a former surgeon general and the director of health equity at Purdue University, is getting deja vu.

"If it keeps spreading in animals, then it is eventually going to cause problems for humans, either because we don't have food because they've got to start exterminating flocks, or because it starts to make a jump in humans," Adams, who served under former President Donald Trump and was on the administration's initial COVID-19 task force, told Business Insider. "The more it replicates, the more chances it has to mutate."

Though he agrees with the CDC's assessment that the current risk to humans is low, Adams fears the US is repeating many mistakes it made in the early days of COVID-19.

Weak messaging with no clear leaders​

Who is in charge of an animal pandemic in the US? The CDC? The US Department of Agriculture? The FDA?

The answer is, sort of, all of them. That decentralized responsibility could be behind the lack of widespread, clear public messaging so far.

For example, Adams says he hasn't changed anything about his diet, since pasteurization and proper cooking procedures should kill any live virus present. But he isn't sure everyone is getting the message.

He compared it to the development of COVID-19 vaccines, when people distrusted a process they didn't understand.

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A grocery store employee stocks cartons of eggs at a market in Sonoma County, California, where avian flu infections shut down a cluster of egg farms in recent months. Terry Chea/AP Photo

A grocery store employee stocks cartons of eggs at a market in Sonoma County, California, where avian flu infections shut down a cluster of egg farms in recent months. Terry Chea/AP Photo© Terry Chea/AP Photo
"The public needs good consistent communication from the White House, from the USDA, helping reassure them what the process is to keep them safe," Adams said.

Rather than consumers, the people most at risk are agricultural workers or anyone with close or prolonged exposure to chickens or cattle. It's those groups who need strong, targeted guidance right now, Adams said.


Only testing the sick​

So far, the USDA has only been testing cattle herds when an animal appears sick. That means asymptomatic spread could be flying under the radar.

"An animal can't tell you, 'Hey, I feel a little under the weather today.' So they're literally waiting until an animal is collapsing or showing fatigue or showing severe symptoms," Adams said. "We need a testing strategy that is proactive and allows true surveillance, and not reactive."

The USDA took a step forward on Wednesday, ordering that all lactating dairy cows must be tested for H5N1 before they're moved across state lines and that all positive test results must be reported.

New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci reported that same day that, until now, the USDA has not been keeping track of positive test results in cattle.

Election distraction​

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Former President Donald Trump, at a press conference after leaving the second day of his defamation trial involving E. Jean Carroll. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Former President Donald Trump, at a press conference after leaving the second day of his defamation trial involving E. Jean Carroll. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images© Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images
In late 2019 and early 2020, the big news story was the impeachment, and later acquittal, of President Trump. Now a different Trump trial is dominating the news.

And, as in 2020, this is an election year.

"The Biden administration, particularly the White House, has been incredibly quiet on this bird flu situation. Why? To me, it looks like they very much don't want to scare the public and spook the economy in an election year," Adams said.

Business vs. public health​

Just like the lockdowns of COVID-19 were devastating for the restaurant and hospitality industries, a crackdown on avian flu can be devastating to the chicken industry.

The treatment for a bird flu outbreak is to kill all the chickens. Even before that, just testing the flock can slow down production.

"We're seeing the same tension between business interests and public health interests," Adams said.

What's more, many of the workers who handle chickens and cattle are undocumented immigrants. That can make them and their bosses hesitant to call in authorities over diseased animals.

Many vulnerable groups were hesitant to report illness in the early COVID days, too, including migrant workers and people who didn't have sick leave from work.

"My concern is we keep making the same mistakes over and over again," Adams said. "Because we keep focusing on the wrong things instead of focusing on the root causes."

 

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As bird flu outbreaks worsen, experts say the situation threatens to spiral out of control​

Nicole Karlis
Fri, April 26, 2024 at 4:30 AM CDT·7 min read

Dairy Cattle Getty Images/Peter Cade

Dairy Cattle Getty Images/Peter Cade
For weeks, the dairy industry has been gripped by a highly contagious virus that is threatening to only get worse. Federal regulators announced this week that samples of pasteurized milk tested positive for H5N1, the strain of bird flu that has jumped from poultry to cows with one recent infection in an American.

At the moment, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that the country’s milk supply is safe thanks to the pasteurization process, which works by heating milk to kill bacteria and viruses, and “the diversion or destruction of milk from sick cows.”

However, infectious disease experts warn this these positive tests are a sign that the outbreak is much bigger than previously thought, and indicate that the government doesn’t have a good grasp on the situation. And the problem only seems to be worsening. According to the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), H5N1 has been identified in 33 herds in eight states. On Thursday, a senior FDA official said 1 in 5 milk samples have tested positive for H5N1.

While experts aren’t expecting a H5N1 pandemic in humans to spread across the United States this year, yet, it’s likely it could be the next pandemic in the not-so-distant future. The fact that the current spread between species, and even to a few humans, is likely underestimated could mean that an emergency could arrive too late to contain.
Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, told Salon “the worst case scenario” is that this turns into a “massive pandemic.” If a person asked a group of epidemiologists what the next pandemic is going to be, a majority would likely say “bird flu,” she said.

“I think what would be most helpful is to mount a proactive response rather than always being in this reactive, defensive mode with diseases,” Jetelina said. “And if we can understand where it's going, how it's changing, then we can certainly prepare and know when it jumps to humans and when we do need to employ all the other steps.”
Such steps include making more vaccines, starting to get frontline workers vaccinated and more.
“But if we're not following it, this could easily jump and start spreading without us knowing for a while,” Jetelina said. “And by then we're already in this reactive-defensive perspective.”

Just like humans, birds can get the flu. When that happens, they can pass it on to other poultry — such as chickens, ducks and turkeys. But the most recent strain of avian influenza, H5N1, has jumped species. Instead of only infecting fellow birds, the current outbreak is infecting dairy cows.

In the most recent confirmed human case, the virus spread from a cow to a human; which is the first time cow to human transmission has happened. The last time a human tested positive for H5N1 was in April 2022 in Colorado when an individual got infected from poultry. As Salon previously reported, one major concern is that the more it jumps from animal to animal, or animal to human, the more likely it is to mutate to become more effective at infecting humans.
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Jetelina said at the moment, infectious disease experts are “pretty much blind” to how big the outbreak is, and that the discovery of viral fragments in milk suggests it’s more widespread among dairy cows. Another clue the bird flu is more widespread is genomic surveillance that suggests the spillover to dairy cows started in December of last year despite the outbreak being detected at the end of March.

Part of the issue is that testing animals is voluntary at the moment. According to APHIS, the agency is recommending a voluntary testing approach instead of a mandatory one for cattle. The agency says it wouldn’t be “practical, feasible or necessarily informative to require mandatory testing.” For context, the agency stated, there are more than 26,000 dairy herds nationwide and it’s still a small portion that’s infected. However, if cows are going to be moved between state lines the USDA is requiring testing.

However, Dr. Rajendram Rajnarayanan of the New York Institute of Technology campus in Jonesboro, Ark., told Salon testing is still voluntary for the most part and there needs to be comprehensive guidelines on what a common citizen should know, as well as the cattle ranchers.
"Mandatory tests for cattle that are transported is a welcome move. I'd strongly recommend them to include a period of quarantine and retesting before integrating them into the existing herd," Rajnarayanan said. "The recent data about commercial milk samples testing positive for H5N1 fragments suggests a much wider spread of H5N1 among dairy cattle. Several cows are asymptomatic [but] they still spread the virus to others.”

He added there is no guidance on asymptomatic cattle testing either. However, dairy farmers, Rajnarayanan said, will likely see signs that their herds are infected without testing. In the confirmed infected cows with H5N1, their milk production dropped and turned yellowish. “But what about beef cattle?” Rajnarayanan asked.

Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, told Salon via email that more testing needs to be done — especially among asymptomatic cows, beef cattle and cows in states with no known cases. Testing people in contact with animals and testing other animals is “essential.” Serology testing to see evidence of previous infections would be helpful, too.

“In addition, we need complementary lab research to show how tissues of the cow can be infected and more epidemiological data to better understand transmission routes,” Rasmussen said. “Above all, we need more data on virus sequences and sample collection/analysis to date from USDA and other government agencies to better direct our efforts.”

When asked if more humans could be infected, Rasmussen said “this is definitely possible.” But she said it is challenging to assess since the one cow-to-human case was mild and not a respiratory infection.
“As well as the fact that many people at the greatest exposure risk may be undocumented, discouraged from reporting by their employers, and not have access to health care,” she added.

Some public health experts are concerned that human cases are flying under the radar, likely because they are asymptomatic, highlighting anecdotes about dairy workers who have pink eye and other symptoms, but are avoiding testing or being seen by doctors. Earlier this week, James Lowe, a researcher who specializes in pig influenza viruses, told ScienceInsider, “I believe there are probably lots of human cases.”

Rajnarayanan told Salon he is cautious to categorize the current outbreak as “mild” and downplay it despite it not being an immediate risk to humans right now. He added that if public health experts learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that if you keep saying “everything is mild” then “the common people tend not to pay attention at all.” He added the biggest concern is that officials are missing other infections among other species, like pigs. The goal should be to contain the virus as much as possible to keep it from mutating and evolving into something worse.

“The moment it hits species like pigs, it can produce all this reassortments from coinfected viruses; that's when we'll have problems,” Rajnarayanan said. “Then it will be better adapted to mammalian species.”
Jetelina agreed.

“The more this spreads, the more it jumps from animal to animal, the more ability it has to mutate,”Jetelina said. “I think that it's a good sign that we haven't seen more human cases, we haven't seen any human clusters, but that doesn't mean that it can't happen — the flu is incredibly unpredictable and we need to treat it with urgency and transparency.”

 

LoupGarou

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Continuing to work in the laboratory to better characterize the virus from the human case in Texas. This week CDC completed susceptibility testing for influenza antiviral medications that are used for seasonal influenza (e.g., the neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir, zanamivir and peramivir). Testing confirmed that the A(H5N1) virus was susceptible to all commercially available FDA-approved and recommended neuraminidase inhibitor antivirals. Testing to confirm susceptibility to baloxavir marboxil, a different antiviral medication, takes longer and is ongoing.
Assume that’s Tamiflu in there. Don’t know the other ones. They probably don’t work as well as what we already have here. FLCCC.
 

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So there I was this PM with a few minutes. I went looking for the Medical College records that you mention. While I could not find the specific records, I did find a reprint of the following article: AN INDIAN REMEDY FOR INFLUENZA - ERNST T. KREBS, M.D., as published in 1920. The article at this link also notes a bit of the history around this root. Note that I have no interest in company or products shown at the link, My interest is in some of the history discussed.

I also came across a search result of a thread were at TB (and later, a second TB thread) from 2007 to 2009 time frame. There is lots of info discussing using this root for the swine and Spanish flu, which I also think is related.

This post is an FYI if you want to dig into it... Links:



I posted this in the Q thread, regarding the past contributions here at TB. Could be of use as things develop....
 

Plain Jane

Just Plain Jane

Bird-Flu, Censorship, & 100 Day Vaccines: 7 Predictions For "The Next Pandemic"​


BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, APR 26, 2024 - 11:40 PM
Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,
Earlier this month the White House published its new “Pandemic Preparedness” targets.


They are far from alone in covering this. Back in March, Sky News was asking: “Next pandemic is around the corner,’ expert warns – but would lockdown ever happen again?”

On April 3rd, the Financial Times asked something similar: “The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?”

Less than an hour ago, the Daily Mail invited us inside “the world’s deadliest cave that could cause the next pandemic”.

Just two days ago a professional panic spreader wrote for CNN:

The next pandemic threat demands action now!!!
OK, I added the exclamation points, but they are very much implied in the original text.

So, while Iran and Israel rattle their sabres on the front pages, I thought we should take a look at the quieter back pages to see what we can learn, and help us predict how “the next pandemic” will unfold.

WHAT IS “THE NEXT PANDEMIC”?​

I mean…I feel like that’s fairly self-explanatory.

Seriously though, it’s the one they’ve been predicting from pretty much the moment Covid started. First it was going to be monkey pox – sorry MPox – but that fizzled.

Of course by “pandemic”, we really mean “psy-op”, because nothing about the next pandemic will be any more real than the last pandemic. Hell, given the leaps forward in AI technology, it could be considerably less real next time.

We don’t know any of the details yet, but there’s enough vague coverage to tease out some guesstimates.

WHAT DISEASE WILL THEY USE?​

Probably the most important question. We already mentioned monkey pox, but that doesn’t look likely anymore.

Right now they are mostly talking about “disease X” – a term which caused a little panic in certain sections when it first appeared on the scene – but that isn’t some top secret gain of function super disease, it’s literally a place holder name.

And it’s a placeholder name which does its job, for the time being.

After all, they don’t really need an actual name yet, any more than they need an actual disease, they just need the idea of a disease to hold over people’s heads while they construct the legislative rules of their health-based tyranny.

Indeed, the vagueness “Disease X” provides is helpful, as it keeps the legislation vague too.

That said, they will likely want and/or need to produce an actual disease at some point.

When that time comes around, it will almost certainly be another respiratory disease, because they are easy to “fake” using pre-existing endemic diseases and their uniform symptoms.

The prime candidate is bird flu, which has been slow-boiling in the news for two years now and has recently got a big uptick in coverage due to it allegedly passing to people from cows.


The UN reports “pandemic experts” are “concerned over avian influenza spread to humans”. Just yesterday, Jeremy Farrar of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that “[the] threat Of Bird Flu spreading to Humans is a great concern”

Prompting gleefully sensationalist headlines like this from the Daily Star:

New pandemic ‘expected’ as human-to-human bird flu of ‘great concern’ to WHO
Bird flu is a convenient pick because it enables them to push their health tyranny and their food transition at the same time. They can claim that dairy, beef, chicken and eggs have become “dangerous” as an excuse to ration them or at least force scarcity while they drive the prices up.

They will then push the idea that veganism and/or lab grown meat “prevents pandemics”. Something they’ve been claiming since at least 2021.

The Daily Mail reported just a few hours ago:

H5N1 strain of bird flu is found in MILK for first time in ‘very high concentrations,’ World Health Organization warns
The downside to bird flu is that it’s hard to work the climate change angle into the narrative, so maybe they’ll go with something else.

WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN?​

Probably not until the winter, I would guess January 2025 at the earliest, for two reasons:

  1. They need it to be flu season so they can co-opt normal seasonal deaths into their “pandemic” narrative.
  2. I think they’ll want to wait until after the “big election year” is over so there are fresh governments in place.
That second point is not just a hunch, but based on the article from Sky I mentioned above. It asks “would lockdown ever happen again?”, and an “expert” answers [emphasis added]:

…if another lockdown was needed, the current Tory government would either have to minimise scandals over their own rule-breaking – or change hands completely to keep the public on board. If we had a new government, people would be far more likely to have faith in them because they would be less likely to say, ‘it’s the same bunch as before – why should we do it again?’
Which I think is correct.

That would also explain the raft of sudden political resignations – including Covid stars Angela Merkel and Jacinda Ardern – which swept the world in Covid’s wake. They were aware then, and are still aware now, their players were spent and they needed a fresh roster before coming back for the second leg.

So, elections first – with all the nonsense that entails – then maybe the “next pandemic”.

HOW WILL IT BE DIFFERENT FROM “COVID”?​

Any future pandemic psy-op will be unlikely to follow the covid pattern beat-for-beat, for one thing the Covid narrative spent itself before achieving everything it was meant to achieve.

You can bet the farm that, in the four years since, there have been working groups and researchers poring over the pandemic data to figure out what went wrong and how they can fix it next time.

There seem to be three recurring themes.

1. Vaccines not lockdowns There will be a focus on securing vaccines rather than lockdowns. Indeed, part of the whole “aw shucks lockdowns were damaging who’d have thunk it” rigmarole is about setting up the dynamic that “next time” we need to do anything we can to avoid lockdowns.

Lockdowns will become a threat rather than a fact.

“We HAVE to mandate vaccines, because the economy can’t afford another lockdown.”

“Take the vaccine, you don’t want to have another lockdown do you?”


So there will be more testing, more masks and more vaccine mandates…and/or quarantine camps for the unvaccinated. And if they DO have lockdowns, they will be entirely blamed on the “anti-vaxxers”, of course.

2. Speed speed speed The main failing of the Covid narrative was that it ran out of steam. By the time the vaccines rolled out in early 2021 the pandemic fatigue was already setting in. And by the time the third boosters and fourth waves were in the headlines nobody really cared.

The propaganda blitzkrieg of early 2020 was arguably the greatest and most wide-reaching misinformation campaign of all time – and it was almost overwhelmingly effective. But it slowed, stalled, stopped and staled.

Next time, they know now, they need to be faster. Bill Gates said as much at the 2022 Munich Security Conference. They need to get the disease out the deaths up and vaccines in before people even realise what happened.

Hence the “100 day vaccines” plan. As the ever-reliably-hysterical Devi Shridar writes for the Guardian:

most governments are working towards the 100-day challenge: that is, how to contain a virus spreading while a scientific response, such as a vaccine, diagnostic or treatment, can be approved, manufactured and delivered to the public.
The “100 Day Mission” is the brainchild of CEPI, the Gates and WHO-backed NGO. Its main aim is to make it possible to produce new vaccines for previously unknown pathogens in 100 days.

In the US, the target is 130 days from pathogen discovery to nation-wide vaccine coverage.

It should go without saying that real, reliable, “safe and effective” vaccines cannot be produced in 100 days. Whatever they make, sell and force you to inject in that time…it won’t be a vaccine

3. Free Speech is Dangerous. The slow development of the narrative post-2020 may have hindered the health tyranny agenda, but it was the independent media that really hurt it. The impromptu network of dissident experts, independent researchers and social media movements spread “misinformation” faster than the powers-that-be could fact-check it.

We have seen perpetual messaging about the dangers of “misinformaion and disinformation” since then, including prominently at the most recent DAVOS summit earlier this year, where it was labelled one of the “three greatest dangers” facing the planet.

Last week, a UK Parliamentary Committee published “recommendations” headlined:

Government should learn lessons from pandemic to improve communications and counter misinformation
Only a few days ago, Gordon Brown was quoted in the news “warning” that:

“fake news’ risks preparations for next pandemic”
Which heavily implies they will move to counter this “fake news” before the “next pandemic” begins.

WILDCARD PREDICTION: The multipolar angle. Whatever form the “next pandemic” takes, they will likely avoid the monolithic messaging of 2020, where total global conformity to “the message” was one of the real telltale signs of deception. Next time prepare for countries like India, China and Russia to forge their own pandemic strategy – focusing on some new treatment or technology that the West refuses to endorse.

There are no sources to back this one, yet. It’s just a gut feeling.

*

So what am I officially predicting for the “next pandemic”?

  1. It will won’t be launched until after the major elections this year, because they want new politic faces untarnished by Covid
  2. It will likely be bird flu or some other respiratory disease, launched in the winter to hijack the real flu season again
  3. The chosen disease will fit into one or more pre-existing agenda – either impacting food or originating from some forced “climate change” connection or both
  4. They will move faster, producing “vaccines” in 100 days to stop people getting wise to the deception as they did with Covid
  5. They will try and avoid lockdowns, but use them as a threat to enforce vaccine mandates more rigorously
  6. They will clamp down harder on “mis- and dis-information” before launching the new narrative.
  7. The next pandemic will have a multipolarity angle to establish a fake binary
That’s how I see it. Feel free to bookmark this post for future reference.

Even if I’ve guessed the details wrong here, there’s no question they are planning to roll out another pandemic at some point in near future. A covid sequel that learns from past mistakes.

While, in some ways, it will likely be worse than Covid was – the good news is that this time we can be ready for it.
 

Shadow

Swift, Silent,...Sleepy

WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN?​

Probably not until the winter, I would guess January 2025 at the earliest, for two reasons:

  1. They need it to be flu season so they can co-opt normal seasonal deaths into their “pandemic” narrative.
  2. I think they’ll want to wait until after the “big election year” is over so there are fresh governments in place.
I think it will happen much sooner. I do not think they care about co-opting the normal season. The fact that it is out of season can be used to hype the panic. And I believe they want to disrupt the election.

Even if they accept Donald Tump winning they will want all the chaos that can be created to accompany presidency so as to lower his effectiveness.

Shadow
 

Crusty Echo 7

Veteran Member
I see a multi-angle approach here; they’re trying to dissuade folks from trusting multiple sources of protein, including home grown since this thing “spreads”. Also hits several food product categories…just think how many processed foods contain dairy?

This also sets conditions for them to gain access to “test” any potential source that could become infected by their own definition.

More methods to disrupt the food supply and attain “regulated” control at multiple levels, I bet there’s more behind the scenes going on.
 

subnet

Boot
I see a multi-angle approach here; they’re trying to dissuade folks from trusting multiple sources of protein, including home grown since this thing “spreads”. Also hits several food product categories…just think how many processed foods contain dairy?

This also sets conditions for them to gain access to “test” any potential source that could become infected by their own definition.

More methods to disrupt the food supply and attain “regulated” control at multiple levels, I bet there’s more behind the scenes going on.
Follows the Wef plan to limit beef
 

TFergeson

Non Solum Simul Stare
Front page news today, again. Every day I'm seeing an increase. This is called "seeding the narrative" and "priming the population."

Multiple agencies issue alerts on 'highly pathogenic avian flu' after detection in milk​

Story by Douglas Jones
• 18h [27APR24] • 2 min read

Multiple U.S. agencies issued new warnings on Friday about the concerning spread of a highly pathogenic avian influenza strain that public health officials are calling highly contagious.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said tests of commercial milk samples have showed the presence of H5N1 virus fragments, though the milk is still safe to drink because it has been pasteurized.

The World Health Organization acknowledged that there were concerns with making sure the commercial milk supply stays safe.

Public health officials are urging the people not to consume raw milk, recommending instead to stick to pasteurized milk.

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Veterinarians vaccinating farm chickens against diseases like bird flu.

Veterinarians vaccinating farm chickens against diseases like bird flu.© Pordee_Aomboon / Shutterstock
Animals and Insects

USDA releases genetic data of bird flu after criticism from scientists​

Taylor O'Bier
2:19 PM, Apr 22, 2024
The FDA said in its assessment of geographically targeted samples, the commercial milk supply was deemed to be safe at this time. The agency also said it tested "several samples" of retail powdered milk infant formula and powdered milk products marketed as formula for toddlers and found all of the results to be negative with no detection of viral fragments.

The FDA said there was no uptick of human cases of flu and no cases of H5N1 beyond known cases related to direct contact with infected cattle. The FDA says that bird flu viruses do not normally infect humans, but that sporadic human infections have occurred.

The label “highly pathogenic” refers more to H5N1's severe impact on birds, the agency said, and not "necessarily" in humans.

The WHO said there have been unprecedented numbers of deaths in wild birds and outbreaks in domestic poultry. Around the world detections of H5N1 viruses in non-avian species (wild or domestic, and mammals on land and sea) have increased. This includes most recently goats and dairy cattle in the United States, the global health agency said.

 

CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB

Bird-Flu, Censorship, & 100 Day Vaccines: 7 Predictions For "The Next Pandemic"​


BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, APR 26, 2024 - 11:40 PM
Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,
Earlier this month the White House published its new “Pandemic Preparedness” targets.


They are far from alone in covering this. Back in March, Sky News was asking: “Next pandemic is around the corner,’ expert warns – but would lockdown ever happen again?”

On April 3rd, the Financial Times asked something similar: “The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?”

Less than an hour ago, the Daily Mail invited us inside “the world’s deadliest cave that could cause the next pandemic”.

Just two days ago a professional panic spreader wrote for CNN:


OK, I added the exclamation points, but they are very much implied in the original text.

So, while Iran and Israel rattle their sabres on the front pages, I thought we should take a look at the quieter back pages to see what we can learn, and help us predict how “the next pandemic” will unfold.

WHAT IS “THE NEXT PANDEMIC”?​

I mean…I feel like that’s fairly self-explanatory.

Seriously though, it’s the one they’ve been predicting from pretty much the moment Covid started. First it was going to be monkey pox – sorry MPox – but that fizzled.

Of course by “pandemic”, we really mean “psy-op”, because nothing about the next pandemic will be any more real than the last pandemic. Hell, given the leaps forward in AI technology, it could be considerably less real next time.

We don’t know any of the details yet, but there’s enough vague coverage to tease out some guesstimates.

WHAT DISEASE WILL THEY USE?​

Probably the most important question. We already mentioned monkey pox, but that doesn’t look likely anymore.

Right now they are mostly talking about “disease X” – a term which caused a little panic in certain sections when it first appeared on the scene – but that isn’t some top secret gain of function super disease, it’s literally a place holder name.

And it’s a placeholder name which does its job, for the time being.

After all, they don’t really need an actual name yet, any more than they need an actual disease, they just need the idea of a disease to hold over people’s heads while they construct the legislative rules of their health-based tyranny.

Indeed, the vagueness “Disease X” provides is helpful, as it keeps the legislation vague too.

That said, they will likely want and/or need to produce an actual disease at some point.

When that time comes around, it will almost certainly be another respiratory disease, because they are easy to “fake” using pre-existing endemic diseases and their uniform symptoms.

The prime candidate is bird flu, which has been slow-boiling in the news for two years now and has recently got a big uptick in coverage due to it allegedly passing to people from cows.


The UN reports “pandemic experts” are “concerned over avian influenza spread to humans”. Just yesterday, Jeremy Farrar of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that “[the] threat Of Bird Flu spreading to Humans is a great concern”

Prompting gleefully sensationalist headlines like this from the Daily Star:


Bird flu is a convenient pick because it enables them to push their health tyranny and their food transition at the same time. They can claim that dairy, beef, chicken and eggs have become “dangerous” as an excuse to ration them or at least force scarcity while they drive the prices up.

They will then push the idea that veganism and/or lab grown meat “prevents pandemics”. Something they’ve been claiming since at least 2021.

The Daily Mail reported just a few hours ago:


The downside to bird flu is that it’s hard to work the climate change angle into the narrative, so maybe they’ll go with something else.

WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN?​

Probably not until the winter, I would guess January 2025 at the earliest, for two reasons:

  1. They need it to be flu season so they can co-opt normal seasonal deaths into their “pandemic” narrative.
  2. I think they’ll want to wait until after the “big election year” is over so there are fresh governments in place.
That second point is not just a hunch, but based on the article from Sky I mentioned above. It asks “would lockdown ever happen again?”, and an “expert” answers [emphasis added]:


Which I think is correct.

That would also explain the raft of sudden political resignations – including Covid stars Angela Merkel and Jacinda Ardern – which swept the world in Covid’s wake. They were aware then, and are still aware now, their players were spent and they needed a fresh roster before coming back for the second leg.

So, elections first – with all the nonsense that entails – then maybe the “next pandemic”.

HOW WILL IT BE DIFFERENT FROM “COVID”?​

Any future pandemic psy-op will be unlikely to follow the covid pattern beat-for-beat, for one thing the Covid narrative spent itself before achieving everything it was meant to achieve.

You can bet the farm that, in the four years since, there have been working groups and researchers poring over the pandemic data to figure out what went wrong and how they can fix it next time.

There seem to be three recurring themes.

1. Vaccines not lockdowns There will be a focus on securing vaccines rather than lockdowns. Indeed, part of the whole “aw shucks lockdowns were damaging who’d have thunk it” rigmarole is about setting up the dynamic that “next time” we need to do anything we can to avoid lockdowns.

Lockdowns will become a threat rather than a fact.

“We HAVE to mandate vaccines, because the economy can’t afford another lockdown.”

“Take the vaccine, you don’t want to have another lockdown do you?”


So there will be more testing, more masks and more vaccine mandates…and/or quarantine camps for the unvaccinated. And if they DO have lockdowns, they will be entirely blamed on the “anti-vaxxers”, of course.

2. Speed speed speed The main failing of the Covid narrative was that it ran out of steam. By the time the vaccines rolled out in early 2021 the pandemic fatigue was already setting in. And by the time the third boosters and fourth waves were in the headlines nobody really cared.

The propaganda blitzkrieg of early 2020 was arguably the greatest and most wide-reaching misinformation campaign of all time – and it was almost overwhelmingly effective. But it slowed, stalled, stopped and staled.

Next time, they know now, they need to be faster. Bill Gates said as much at the 2022 Munich Security Conference. They need to get the disease out the deaths up and vaccines in before people even realise what happened.

Hence the “100 day vaccines” plan. As the ever-reliably-hysterical Devi Shridar writes for the Guardian:


The “100 Day Mission” is the brainchild of CEPI, the Gates and WHO-backed NGO. Its main aim is to make it possible to produce new vaccines for previously unknown pathogens in 100 days.

In the US, the target is 130 days from pathogen discovery to nation-wide vaccine coverage.

It should go without saying that real, reliable, “safe and effective” vaccines cannot be produced in 100 days. Whatever they make, sell and force you to inject in that time…it won’t be a vaccine

3. Free Speech is Dangerous. The slow development of the narrative post-2020 may have hindered the health tyranny agenda, but it was the independent media that really hurt it. The impromptu network of dissident experts, independent researchers and social media movements spread “misinformation” faster than the powers-that-be could fact-check it.

We have seen perpetual messaging about the dangers of “misinformaion and disinformation” since then, including prominently at the most recent DAVOS summit earlier this year, where it was labelled one of the “three greatest dangers” facing the planet.

Last week, a UK Parliamentary Committee published “recommendations” headlined:


Only a few days ago, Gordon Brown was quoted in the news “warning” that:


Which heavily implies they will move to counter this “fake news” before the “next pandemic” begins.

WILDCARD PREDICTION: The multipolar angle. Whatever form the “next pandemic” takes, they will likely avoid the monolithic messaging of 2020, where total global conformity to “the message” was one of the real telltale signs of deception. Next time prepare for countries like India, China and Russia to forge their own pandemic strategy – focusing on some new treatment or technology that the West refuses to endorse.

There are no sources to back this one, yet. It’s just a gut feeling.

*

So what am I officially predicting for the “next pandemic”?

  1. It will won’t be launched until after the major elections this year, because they want new politic faces untarnished by Covid
  2. It will likely be bird flu or some other respiratory disease, launched in the winter to hijack the real flu season again
  3. The chosen disease will fit into one or more pre-existing agenda – either impacting food or originating from some forced “climate change” connection or both
  4. They will move faster, producing “vaccines” in 100 days to stop people getting wise to the deception as they did with Covid
  5. They will try and avoid lockdowns, but use them as a threat to enforce vaccine mandates more rigorously
  6. They will clamp down harder on “mis- and dis-information” before launching the new narrative.
  7. The next pandemic will have a multipolarity angle to establish a fake binary
That’s how I see it. Feel free to bookmark this post for future reference.

Even if I’ve guessed the details wrong here, there’s no question they are planning to roll out another pandemic at some point in near future. A covid sequel that learns from past mistakes.

While, in some ways, it will likely be worse than Covid was – the good news is that this time we can be ready for it.
In conjunction with your article:

From Bird Flu To Climate Snakes​

BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, APR 27, 2024 - 03:20 PM
Authored by Breeauna Sagdal via The Brownstone Institute,
Seasoned veterinarians and livestock producers alike have been scratching their heads trying to understand the media’s response to the avian flu.

Headlines across every major news outlet warn of humans becoming infected with the “deadly” bird flu after one reported case of pink-eye in a human.

The entire narrative is predicated upon a long-disputed claim that Covid-19 was the result of a zoonotic jump—the famed Wuhan bat wet-market theory.


While the source of Covid is hotly contested within the scientific community, the policy vehicle at the center of this dialectic began years prior to Sars-CoV-2 and is quite resolute in force and effect.

In 2016, the Gates Foundation donated to the World Health Organization to create the OneHealth Initiative. Since 2020, the CDC has adopted and implemented the OneHealth Initiative to build a “collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach—working at the local, regional, national, and global levels—with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.”

In the aftermath of Covid-19, the OneHealth Initiative began taking shape, due largely in part to millions of tax dollars appropriated through ARP (American Rescue Plan) funding.

Through its APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Investigation System) the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) was given $300 million in 2021 to begin implementing “a risk-based, comprehensive, integrated disease monitoring and surveillance system domestically…to build additional capacity for zoonotic disease surveillance and prevention,” globally.

“The One Health concept recognizes that the health of people, animals, and the environment are all linked,” said USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt.

According to the USDA’s press release, the Biden-Harris administration’s OneHealth approach will also help to ensure “new markets and streams of income for farmers and producers using climate smart food and forestry practices,” by “making historic investments in infrastructure and clean energy capabilities in rural America.”

In other words, the federal government is using regulatory enforcement to intervene in the marketplace, in addition to subsidizing corporations with tax dollars to direct a planned economic outcome—ending meat consumption.

Climate-Smart Commodities – Planning the Economy through Subsidized Intervention​

Under the recently announced Climate-Smart Commodities program, the USDA has appropriated $3.1 billion in tax subsidies to one hundred and forty-one new private Climate-Smart projects, ranging from carbon sequestration to Climate-Smart meat and forestry practices.

Private investors such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – who just committed $1 billion to the development of lab cultured meat-like molds, and meat grown in petri dishes, to

Ballpark, formerly known for its hot dogs but is now harvesting python meat, is rushing to cash in on this new industry, and the OneHealth/USDA certification program.

End of part one​

 

CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB

Part two​

Culling The Herd – Regulatory Intervention in the Marketplace​

Meanwhile, the last vestiges of America’s food freedom and decentralized food sources are quietly being targeted by the full force of the federal government.
The once voluntary APHIS System is poised to become the mandatory APHIS-15, which among many other changes, “the system will be renamed Animal Health, Disease, and Pest Surveillance and Management System, USDA/APHIS-15. This system is used by APHIS to collect, manage, and evaluate animal health data for disease and pest control and surveillance programs.”
Among those “many changes” that APHIS-15 is undergoing, one should be of particular interest to the public—the removal of all references to the voluntary* Bovine Johne’s Disease Control Program.
“Updating the authority for maintenance of the system to remove reference to the Bovine Johne’s Disease Control Program.”
In addition to removing references to the once-voluntary herd culling program, the USDA is also implementing mandatory RFID ear tags in cattle and bison.
According to the USDA/APHIS-15, expanded authority places disease tracing in their jurisdiction and the radio frequency ear tags are necessary for the “rapid and accurate recordkeeping for this volume of animals and movement,” which they say “is not achievable without electronic systems.”
The notice clearly spells out that RFID tags “may be read without restraint as the animal goes past an electronic reader.”
“Once the reader scans the tag, the electronically collected tag number can be rapidly and accurately transmitted from the reader to a connected electronic database.”
However, industry leaders and lawmakers alike have said the database will be used to track vaccination history and movement, and that this data may be used to impact the market rate of cattle and bison at the time of processing.

Centralized Control of Processing/Production via Public-Private Partnership Agreements​

In addition to the vast new authority of the USDA funded through the OneHealth Initiative, and the ARP, the EPA has also created its own unique set of regulatory burdens upon the entire meat industry.
On March 25, 2024, the EPA finalized a new set of Clean Water Act rule changes to limit nitrogen and phosphorus “pollutants” in downstream water treatment facilities from processing facilities. While the EPA’s interpretation of authority and jurisdiction over wastewater is concerning long-term, the broader context of consolidated processing under four multinational meat-packing companies is of much greater concern for the immediate future.
With few exceptions, in the United States it is illegal to sell meat without a USDA certification. Currently, the only way to access USDA certification is through a USDA-certified processing facility.
According to the EPA, the new rules will impact up to 845 processing facilities nationwide, unless facilities drastically limit the amount of meat they process each year.
With processing capabilities being the number one barrier to market for livestock producers, and billions of dollars in grants being awarded to Climate-Smart food substitutes, the amount of government intervention into the marketplace becomes very clear.

The Rise of Authoritarianism and Economic Fascism – Control the Supply​

The United States, once a consumer-demand free market society, is currently witnessing the use of government force, and intervention tactics to steer and manipulate the marketplace. Similar to 1930’s Italy, this is being achieved by the state within the state, through the use of selectionism, protectionism, and economic planning between public-private partnership agreements.
The long-term and unavoidable problem with economic fascism is that it leads to authoritarian and centralized control, from which escape is impossible.
As each industry becomes centralized and consolidated under the few, consumer choice simultaneously disappears. As choice disappears, so does the ability of the individual to meet their specific and unique needs.
Eventually, the individual no longer serves a role outside of its usefulness to the state—the final exhale before the last python squeeze.


Enjoy your BallPark Franks by owner of Amazon, BTW has any word of what they are putting in BallPark Franks been broad cast?
 

rob0126

Veteran Member
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, nor do I play one. This is my experience with using CD, in a knowledgeable manner. Use at your own risk.

If you have chickens, you can use Chlorine Dioxide to kill any Influenza virus. (And probably virtually all viruses)
(Link is about external disinfection. This small pdf is about feeding it to the live stock for internal benefit(purify drinking water).)
For technical folks, here is a paper in pdf on how CD can affect the thyroid in animals, if given over a certain amount. Remember, anything can be harmful in the wrong dosage.
The good thing about CD is that it's effective at very small dosages, so it's light years safer than chlorine bleach.

That being said, I periodically take CD internally.
I believe it kills almost anything harmful in the bloodstream.

Detailed info about Chlorine Dioxide's history and use. (1.8MB pdf)
(We are headed into perilous times; this info could be helpful.)

If you want to know how I use it, PM me.
 
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TFergeson

Non Solum Simul Stare
This was also covered in Greg Hunter's Saturday post with Catherine Austin Fitts.

In short, TPTB are losing control of the economy, and the next plandemic will provide the necessary impetus to once again shut everything down (to prevent the economy from imploding just like the COVID shutdowns) allowing TPTB to continue to maintain control; and, it will allow the institution of CBDCs, digital passports, etc. Two birds with one stone.

 

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APRIL 30, 2024
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U.S Needs To Better Track Bird Flu Spread in Farm Animals, Farm Workers, Epidemiologist Says​

Four years after a mysterious respiratory virus jumped from animals into humans and launched the COVID pandemic, wary epidemiologists are keeping a close eye on a strain of avian influenza that is spreading among U.S. dairy cows
BY MEGHAN BARTELS
Black and white dairy cows eating hay and silage

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Avian influenza has been tearing through poultry, wild birds and even mammals without seriously affecting many people in the current outbreak. But in recent weeks, the virus has begun infecting U.S. dairy cows: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported sick animals in at least 34 herds as of April 26. And a human case involving a dairy worker in Texas has ramped up concerns that the virus, known as H5N1, could spread more widely in people. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it will test ground beef in states with outbreaks as a precaution, although the virus is thought to spread through close contact with infected animals.

With COVID’s rapid development into a lethal pandemic still fresh in many people’s mind, it’s difficult to know how worried we should be about another infectious respiratory disease gaining ground. So Scientific American spoke with Katelyn Jetelina, an independent epidemiologist who writes a popular public health newsletter, about how the outbreak has gone so far and how the U.S. could strengthen its management—which she says began as “a very uncoordinated, messy response.”

[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
As an epidemiologist who followed COVID closely, what has it been like for you to watch the bird flu situation unfold?
There’s been a lot going on and pretty quickly, which I think is making us epidemiologists and virologists, as well as veterinarians, a bit nervous. H5N1 has been really heating up in the past two or three years, but what makes the past couple of months unique is that this is spreading among cows.
The mantra we always work on is that spillovers are common, but pandemics are rare because so many unlucky things have to happen in sequence. But pandemics are a game of roulette: they rely on luck, and they can get dramatic pretty fast.

Are we repeating the mistakes of the early days of COVID?
There are things we’ve learned and things we haven’t learned. One of the biggest challenges with this is: it involves humans and animals, so there are a lot of players—we have multiple agencies working in their lane. I’ve been impressed with how the CDC has been updating the public, and I hope that’s because they learned their lesson during COVID. Other players haven’t necessarily learned those lessons because they weren’t in the COVID trenches.
One key difference [with bird flu] is: this hasn’t seen human-to-human spread. We’re not talking about January through March 2020. I do think that we are watching this unfold in real time better than we did with COVID, which seemed to be coming out of nowhere, so that gives me a little more hope.

How have scientists been tracking the spread of bird flu in cows?

We don’t have a good sense of the spread because testing is voluntary and certainly not being done in a systematic way. We’re pretty much flying blind with the testing aspect.

But we have had two clues that this virus has spread very widely: The Food and Drug Administration found viral fragments in milk. And genomic surveillance estimates that spillover to dairy cows started back in December 2023, if not earlier, which means this has been spreading under our noses for a much longer time than we originally thought.


That means our surveillance systems are not great. It also means we haven’t been testing enough. We don’t think that this means the virus is being spread to humans, but it may mean that H5N1 is starting to find a new host in cows, which would not be great news.

Should people be worried about getting the H5N1 virus from milk?

It sounds scary, and I understand the concern. One thing that has made me calm down is knowing that we’ve had, like, 100 years of data around pasteurization, and it works really well. We also got confirmation that scientists were not able to grow active virus from the milk samples, which were pasteurized. That means these virus fragments detected in milk were broken pieces that cannot replicate and thus cannot harm humans. This is a good sign.

Do we know how the virus jumped into cows or how it’s spreading?

From the genomic surveillance, it looks like the spread to cows was likely from one source—probably a dead bird. One hypothesis is that the virus got into cow feed, and then cows ate it, and then it started spreading from cow to cow through the milk machines. But a lot of this is still up in the air.


Veterinarians swabbing cows have found the most virus in the udders, but they have found other positive swabs from, for example, lung tissue. So how is this actually spreading? We think it’s the milk machines spreading the virus from cow to cow, but we need to make sure that it’s not via respiratory transmission as well.

A huge new puzzle is that there is also transmission from cows to poultry. That is concerning; it gives this virus even more opportunity to adapt because it keeps jumping from species to species, and we don’t know how. Is it through humans? Is it through rats? Is it through feed? We don't know. Trying to get a really good understanding of epidemiology here has been challenging just because the data are limited, and the communication is suboptimal.

The CDC says there has only been one case in humans from this outbreak. How plausible is that?

I’m a little skeptical because we haven’t been doing asymptomatic testing, and symptomatic testing is voluntary. There have been reports this week that there are other humans who had symptoms who didn’t test.
Until we start seeing data, I don’t think we should come to sweeping conclusions that it’s only one human case. The good news is that it doesn’t seem like anyone’s died yet, and we’re not seeing huge clusters [of sick people] in emergency departments. So if there are more human cases, I’m pretty confident they’re from direct contact with cows rather than human-to-human transmission. But we need more data and more communication around this.
Many people who have close contact with cows are migrant workers, some of whom are likely undocumented. Does that make them less likely to report any flu symptoms?

Yeah, there are so many layers to this. If they test positive, they’re not going to be able to work, and that has huge implications for their family. The other two big challenges that the CDC brought up publicly are that there’s a language barrier and that some of these people are undocumented workers with a lack of trust in government institutions.
Are we monitoring the virus in wastewater like we did for the virus that causes COVID?
One huge lesson we learned during the COVID pandemic is the value of wastewater. This is a perfect case to leverage this massive network that we built to try and figure out how and where H5N1 is spreading, given the limitations and biases of testing right now. What’s been disappointing is that the government has not officially shared any [flu data from] wastewater. To monitor human infections, the CDC said that they’re utilizing emergency department data, which is great. But once an outbreak hits emergency departments among humans, it’s already kind of out of control, so I would love to see wastewater surveillance leveraged a whole lot more.

If we need vaccines and treatments for bird flu, how prepared are we?
The government has confirmed that tools such as Tamiflu [an antiviral medication] would work to a certain extent against H5N1. Of course, Tamiflu is not very effective even against our seasonal flu. We also have stockpiled H5N1 vaccines that are predicted to have efficacy if this does move to humans, which is great news. [Editor’s Note: These vaccines require two doses per person. The U.S. government says it has some 10 million doses available and could make about 125 million or so within four months, which would total enough to cover about one fifth of the country.]
But there are still a lot of unanswered questions: What about manufacturing and supply? What about the rest of the globe? What about vaccine hesitancy and declining trust and access problems? Fully relying on vaccines and overconfidence were some of the biggest mistakes of the COVID emergency, and I think it’s best to face these threats and questions with a level of humility and determination.

When should people who work with livestock get access to those vaccines?
I don’t know what that line is, when we’re like, “This is an ‘oh, shit’ moment” versus a “watch and see moment.” Getting that line incorrect has massive implications. Certainly if we start seeing any trace of human-to-human transmission, we would really need to start ramping up. If we start seeing transmission in pigs, that would make me incredibly nervous. Pigs are a really great mixing vessel for influenza, so it would be incredibly easy for this virus to start mutating in a way that would have implications for humans. Veterinarians are continuing to test pigs for H5N1, and they have so far been negative, so I’m really happy we’re on top of that.

What’s missing from the U.S.’s H5N1 response right now?

We need a coordinated response from our government. I get that there are multiple players who have their own priorities and legal authorities, but honest, frequent, direct communication earns the public’s trust and confidence. When communities are starved for good information during outbreaks, it leads to unnecessary anxiety, confusion and frustration. The winds may be changing in this area, but we need to get better faster.
On the ground, we really need to get a handle on where H5N1 is spreading and how. That comes through asymptomatic testing of animals and people, sharing genomic surveillance data with the global community and understanding wastewater trends. So certainly, a lot more work needs to be done.

How worried should people be right now?

This is not a concern for the average American unless they’re working with a livestock. What I tell my mom, for example, is that the general public doesn’t have to worry. This is very low-risk to them at the moment. But that could change.
I think the most we can do is to know that this is going on and to pay attention to the status of the situation by finding trusted sources of information. There is so much misinformation and disinformation that finding and sticking to those credible sources is going to be incredibly important if this situation continues to evolve, which we expect it to.

 

CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Four years after a mysterious respiratory virus jumped from animals into humans and launched the COVID pandemic,
As soon as I read this first line in the article, I quit reading it. Why?

The author is still sticking with the narrative that covid came from bats in a wet market, instead of a release from a lab.

His premise is based on an error, so nothing else in the article can be trusted. It is a narrative that is being pushed to control the population.

BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, APR 27, 2024 - 03:20 PM
Authored by Breeauna Sagdal via The Brownstone Institute,
Seasoned veterinarians and livestock producers alike have been scratching their heads trying to understand the media’s response to the avian flu.

Headlines across every major news outlet warn of humans becoming infected with the “deadly” bird flu after one reported case of pink-eye in a human.

The entire narrative is predicated upon a long-disputed claim that Covid-19 was the result of a zoonotic jump—the famed Wuhan bat wet-market theory.


While the source of Covid is hotly contested within the scientific community, the policy vehicle at the center of this dialectic began years prior to Sars-CoV-2 and is quite resolute in force and effect.

In 2016, the Gates Foundation donated to the World Health Organization to create the OneHealth Initiative. Since 2020, the CDC has adopted and implemented the OneHealth Initiative to build a “collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach—working at the local, regional, national, and global levels—with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.”

In the aftermath of Covid-19, the OneHealth Initiative began taking shape, due largely in part to millions of tax dollars appropriated through ARP (American Rescue Plan) funding.
 

Walkin' Away

Senior Member
I have a really simple solution…

How about we test the feed that these dear creatures are being fed? If what I have read is true, how can farmers who raise chickens (on an industrial scale) take the byproducts that are created…sell it and have it processed into cattle feed, and not expect these cows who consume it to not test positive for fragments of the virus?

Have chickens not be vaccinated for “bird flu” for many years already in the industrial setting?

Me thinks, they are continuing to “paint the narrative” for this next chapter of Plandemic Tales.

Call me a skeptic. Rocket Science, this is not! Test the damn feed and stop utilizing questionable practices in animal husbandry.

Somebody want to nominate me for the head of the CDC or USDA? I could save you all alot of money by using common sense approaches

W. A.

Oh, and another thing…we were paying attention with the first plandemic go-round. Many of us did not buy the lies then and we are watching NOW. There are also many of our fellow countrymen who have also “wised” up since the first go-round. That is a very good thing!
 
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