(OPINION) Have you noticed that the mainstream media is suddenly full of very alarming stories about H5N1? When hundreds of millions of birds were dying because of the bird flu, the mainstream media didn’t seem to care very much, so most people in the general population didn’t care very much.
Then, bird flu started infecting many mammals all over the globe, and the mainstream media still didn’t seem to care very much. But now, here we are in mid-2024, and the mainstream media has suddenly decided to ramp up the fear level.
Even though there has only been one confirmed human case in the U.S. so far this year, the mainstream media is pumping out article after article about the threat that H5N1 could potentially pose to humanity. Do they know something that the rest of us do not?
It is quite true that if a version of H5N1 comes along that can spread quickly from human to human, the death toll could be catastrophic.
Are we on the verge of seeing that happen? The New York Times reports that H5N1 “has acquired dozens of new mutations”, and some of them “may make it more adept at spreading between species”…
According to a new study, the bird flu virus sweeping across dairy farms in multiple states has acquired dozens of new mutations, including some that may make it more adept at spreading between species and less susceptible to antiviral drugs.
I don’t like the sound of that at all.
Researchers are telling us that the bird flu “acquired mutations in late 2023 that allowed it to jump from wild birds to cattle in the Texas Panhandle”…
In the new study, the researchers collected samples containing virus from 26 dairy farms in eight states. The researchers said that cows are not typically susceptible to this type of influenza, but H5N1 appears to have acquired mutations in late 2023 that allowed it to jump from wild birds to cattle in the Texas Panhandle.
The virus then appears to have spread on dairy farms from Texas to Kansas, Michigan and New Mexico. In at least a dozen instances since then, H5N1 has also spilled from cows back into wild birds, poultry, domestic cats and a raccoon.
This is a very chilling development. In the past, the bird flu would appear for a while and then go away. But for the past couple of years it has been wiping out millions upon millions of birds all over the planet with no end in sight.
From this point forward, will H5N1 also permanently threaten our cattle population? Needless to say, that could represent a very serious threat to our food supply.
Even more alarming is the fact that the strain of H5N1 that a dairy worker in Texas caught reportedly had “a mutation that allowed it to infect people more efficiently”…
The only person diagnosed with bird flu during the current outbreak carried a virus with a mutation that allowed it to infect people more efficiently. One cow in the study also carried H5N1 with that mutation.
More than 200 others were infected with virus versions with different mutations that offer the same advantage. Why are we only learning about this now? (READ MORE)
