Is Bird Flu The Next Pandemic?

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  1. Joy Martin

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    h1n1 didn't easily cross interspecies. looks like this one (h5n1) is spreading fast due to wild bird migration. be interesting to see if it crosses
     
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    It's unlikely to have been natural. I'm sure that some of Dr. Fauci's labs have been cooking up a replacement for the Wuhan coronavirus, more commonly known as Dr. Fauci's Virus.
     
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    Predictions are tough to make...especially about the future.

    That being said, whatever happens next has got to carry them thought the election theft. I think it's too early for whatever it's gonna be to commence.
     
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    Yes,
    Didn't they already try to scare us with the bird flu a few years ago?
     
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    Until we found out that only about three people were affected, and they were all people who worked intensively with birds.
     
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    Bird flu has never left my area. I had three crows drop dead in my yard from it last summer. Our health dept just says to don a glove and then toss the bird in the garbage can. Nobody is at all concerned about it since it is hard for humans and pets to contact. No way they can make a pandemic out of it.
     
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    The people who seem to be affected so far are those who literally live with the birds, and that happens mostly in China. There will be many threats, but the good news is...they have a vaccine already for you when you get scared enough. Convenient, huh?
     
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    H5N1 is on the move. I can’t stand how they talk about “it’s changing!!!” If viruses are reproducing, they’re changing. There are always mutations occurring, so when you have much larger numbers being infected, you have much larger numbers of mutations and new variants being created, and much greater chance for it to jump species. This is nothing new, it is just the way things are and have always been.

    ”Since first emerging in 1996, the H5N1 avian influenza virus had previously been confined to mostly seasonal outbreaks.

    But "something happened" in mid-2021 that made the group of viruses much more infectious, according to Richard Webby, the head of a World Health Organization collaborating center studying influenza in animals.

    Since then, outbreaks have lasted all year round, spreading to new areas and leading to mass deaths among wild birds and tens of millions of poultry being culled.”

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-experts-bird-flu-virus-rapidly.html
     
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    You reckon someone put some modified virus into the mix?
     
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    The Bird Flu scare is ramping up. Deborah Birx, the wonderful coordinator of the Covid response for the U.S., and the WHO is recommending (demanding) all cattle in the U.S. be tested weekly for the Bird Flu. This will likely eliminate beef from the American diet (a goal of the Green Movement) since they will start treating beef herds like they are now dealing with chickens that are infected. If one animal is infected, the entire herd will be killed, thus eliminating any chance of immunity development.
     
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    What we need is a pharma flu, not that we don't have that already.

    Then we'd have to wipe out pharma and all of their various connections to finally get rid of it.
     
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    I think it is partly a product of the Clinton Administration allowing prescription drug ads on TV. Big Pharma revenue increased dramatically after that, and that gave them the funds to bribe more politicians. I think China said they could buy a U.S. Congressperson for $10,000.
     
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    Well, they get paid whether they are re-elected or not.
     
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