by Michael
When you thought that what now we have been through the past few years was bad, just wait until you see what happens when a really deadly virus starts spreading like wildfire everywhere in the planet. For instance, scientists have been warning for years that the H5N1 strain of the bird flu has the potential to rapidly kill vast numbers of individuals. The excellent news is that H5N1 doesn’t naturally spread easily amongst mammals, but greater than a decade ago scientists in the US and the Netherlands were conducting “gain of function” research on H5N1 with a purpose to create a version that would spread easily amongst mammals. And as you will notice below, some very familiar names funded that research.
Thankfully, H5N1 was off the radar for a very long time, but then a few 12 months ago a large outbreak suddenly erupted amongst birds everywhere in the world and it has been “wiping out every thing in numbers we’ve never seen before”…
The US is currently experiencing its worst-ever outbreak of bird flu, also referred to as avian influenza — and a brand new study has found that the strain could turn into endemic within the country.
The outbreak is “wiping out every thing in numbers we’ve never seen before,” Jennifer Mullinax, an assistant professor of environmental science and technology on the University of Maryland, told Sky News.
Despite the fact that thousands and thousands upon thousands and thousands of chickens, turkeys and other birds at the moment are dead, most individuals in the overall population haven’t been too alarmed by this outbreak.
But in recent months, H5N1 has began killing mammals equivalent to foxes, minks, raccoons and bears.
And now researchers in Canada have proven that one strain of H5N1 that’s currently circulating can spread “efficiently” amongst ferrets…
The bird flu virus that’s killing thousands and thousands of animals world wide has been found to “efficiently” spread between ferrets in a laboratory, raising concerns concerning the potential for the virus to leap to humans.
In a brand new preprint, scientists in Canada demonstrated that H5N1 samples taken from a red tailed hawk spread efficiently between ferrets – the fundamental “animal model” utilized by scientists in experiments to analyse how respiratory viruses may impact people.
This is just not good.
Ferrets were utilized in this research because they’ve “an identical respiratory makeup to humans”…
Ferrets were chosen for the study as they an identical respiratory makeup to humans, providing experts with an idea of how a virus would interact in people.
They found that ‘direct contact’ with one strain of H5N1 isolated from an infected bird, resulted ‘in lethal outcomes’, the paper added.
So where did this strain of H5N1 come from?
More specifically, did it occur naturally, or was it created in a lab?
Greater than a decade ago, gain of function experiments that were funded by Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci actually created a version of H5N1 that “had gained the power to spread through the air between ferrets”…
And yet in late 2011 the world learned that two scientific teams – one in Wisconsin, led by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, and one other within the Netherlands, led by virologist Ron Fouchier – had potentially pushed the virus in that direction. Each of those labs had created H5N1 viruses that had gained the power to spread through the air between ferrets, the animal model used to review how flu viruses might behave in humans.
The last word goal of this work was to assist protect the world from future pandemics, and the research was supported with words and funding by two of probably the most outstanding scientists in the US: Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
A lot of us have been warning for a really very long time that such research is incredibly dangerous.
If a version of H5N1 that may spread very easily amongst humans were to get loose, the implications could possibly be “100 times worse than Covid”…
They warned that if such a strain made the leap to humans, the implications could possibly be catastrophic.
‘Because there’s little to no H5-specific population-wide immunity, if an H5N1 isolate able to sustained transmission made a species jump into humans, this may likely represent a destructive infection in immunologically naïve population,’ they wrote.
John Fulton, a pharmaceutical industry consultant and founding father of BioNiagara, told MailOnline H5N1 poses a threat ‘100 times worse than Covid’.
No one knows obviously what number of would die if a full-blown H5N1 pandemic were to erupt amongst humans, however it has been projected that the death toll could reach as high as 1.5 billion people.
Since 2003, the death rate for humans which have turn into infected with H5N1 has been 53 percent.
So we higher hope that a version of H5N1 that transmits from one person to a different easily doesn’t start spreading any time soon.
Unfortunately, there are signs that point is running out. In truth, it’s being reported that six domestic cats have tested positive for H5N1 right here in the US…
One other cat within the U.S. has died of H5N1 avian influenza, raising the variety of domestic cats infected with the virus to no less than six, officials say. The brand new case was reported in Nebraska and two older cases were present in Oregon.
If H5N1 is now even spreading amongst domestic cats, how long will or not it’s before it makes the jump to humans?
Obviously the large pharmaceutical firms imagine that it could possibly be soon, because they’re feverishly working on recent vaccines…
Vaccine makers GSK, Moderna, and CSL Seqirus have begun developing recent human shots to focus on the rapidly spreading strain of the virus.
Others equivalent to Sanofi have generic vaccines the H5N1 virus in stock that could possibly be adapted to the currently currently circulating strain.
I actually, really hope that this thing fizzles out.
Because if thousands and thousands of individuals do start getting infected with H5N1, it can make the COVID pandemic appear to be a Sunday picnic.
As I keep warning my regular readers, now we have now entered an era of great pestilences.
Scientists everywhere in the globe are monkeying around with a few of the most dangerous bugs known to humanity, and in lots of cases they’re purposely attempting to make them much more deadly.
As now we have seen, it’s way too easy for an “accident” to occur, and the subsequent “accident” that happens could potentially kill thousands and thousands upon thousands and thousands of us.