Bird flu pandemic imminent

Now the new WH press secretary just blamed the egg shortage on the Biden Admin because they ordered the killing of 100 million chickens.

But that was to contain bird flu.
 
Today’s obvious fact: if lots of people didn’t get a vaccine, then the vaccine was not “forced on everyone”.
 
well that's disappointing... RFK Jr is telling the confirmation hearing that he's not an anti-vaxxer.

meanwhile, the pigs are ready for take off, so add swine flu to the new risks along with avian flu! 😆
 
Your vaunted CIA disagree with you goober…
Not really. They favor a "lab leak" theory, but that's a completely different thing from the virus being synthesized in a lab as opposed to being a sample under study -- and even that they don't favor much:


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CIA now says COVID most likely originated from a lab leak but has "low confidence" in its assessment​

Updated on: January 27, 2025 / 8:42 AM EST / CBS/AP
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even while acknowledging that the spy agency has "low confidence" in its own conclusion.

The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA director William Burns. It was declassified and released Saturday on the orders of President Trump's pick to lead the agency, John Ratcliffe, who was sworn in Thursday as director.

"CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting. CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible," a spokesperson for the agency said in a statement, noting they "will continue to evaluate any available credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information that could change CIA's assessme
 
Well, between the pandemic and the tariffs coming, we'd better stock up on essentials.
 
Bird flu pandemic nearer and nearer.

After delay, CDC releases data signaling bird flu spread undetected in cows and people

The first study on the H5N1 bird flu outbreak from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make it to publication under the Trump administration came out Thursday.

The journal released data suggesting some spillovers from dairy cattle into humans have gone undetected, including in states where dairy herds have not tested positive.

This comes after a freeze in external communications that interrupted the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or MMWR, a mainstay of public health communication. Publication on other topics resumed last week.

In the new study, researchers analyzed blood samples collected from 150 veterinarians who worked with cattle around the country and found that three of them had antibodies to the H5N1 virus, indicating recent infections. None recalled having any influenza-like symptoms or conjunctivitis. They also did not care for any cattle with known or suspected infections, although one did work with infected poultry.

The findings underscore the difficulty of detecting and controlling human infections based on whether or not a person seeks out medical care, says Gregory Gray, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
 
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