The chain of events mirrors what occurred in 2020…
Fear surrounding an increasing and persistent avian influenza outbreak has not left mainstream media headlines, and new worries have now recently been published that virus has been found in pasteurized milk, and purportedly can now spread from cow-to-cow.
This latest update comes roughly several weeks since The WinePress reportedon a media blitz by the mainstream press, about bird flu reportedly being found in dairy cattle and even infected a farmer. The reported outbreaks cropping up across the country prompted some egg processing facilities to temporary cease operations. A number of articles were very quick to invoke fears of this quickly turning into a ‘pandemic’ situation. SEE: Bird Flu Detected In Cattle And Infects American, Largest Egg Facility Closes Due To Spread. Media Launches Blitzkrieg Of ‘Next Pandemic’ Fears
Since The WP reported on this several weeks ago, the mainstream media has remained resolute in warning about the grave threat an outbreak poses, and its grand potential of spring-boarding a new pandemic.
For example, not long after that WP article was published, a report from the New York Post went viral, titled “Bird flu pandemic could be ‘100 times worse’ than COVID, scientists warn.”
The paper cited Dr. Suresh Kuchipudi, a bird flu researcher from Pittsburgh, said at a panel discussing the outbreak, explaining: “This virus [has been] on the top of the pandemic list for many, many years and probably decades. And now we’re getting dangerously close to this virus potentially causing a pandemic.”
“So therefore, in my view, I think this is a virus that has the greatest pandemic threat [that is] playing out in plain sight and globally present,” Kuchipudi added
At this same conference John Fulton, a pharmaceutical industry consultant for vaccines and the founder of Canada-based BioNiagara who organized the meeting, also commented: “This appears to be 100 times worse than Covid — or it could be if it mutates and maintains its high case fatality rate. Once it’s mutated to infect humans, we can only hope that the [fatality rate] drops.”
This has been one of many headlines that have stoked the possibility of bird flu being the ‘next pandemic,’ warning about the spread to people via contact with animals and even pets, through the air, or through food. Some of these include:
- “Bird flu outbreak is an ‘evolving situation.’ Here’s what to know about symptoms, spread” – (USA Today)
- “What we know now about bird flu and food safety after it spreads to humans in America” – (USA Today)
- “Experts Sound Alarm Over H5N1 Bird Flu: Warn of Potential Pandemic Worse than Covid” – (The Artistree)
- “Can cats get bird flu? How to protect them and what else to know amid the outbreak” – (USA Today)
- “Bird flu outbreak in NYC prompts new health alert” – (Daily Mail)
- “Bird flu detected among chickens in Texas and Michigan” – (The Guardian)
- “Bird flu found in South Dakota dairy herd” – (Agriculture Dive)
- “Texas health officials issue warning after individual contracts virus following direct exposure to cattle: ‘I wouldn’t have predicted that'” – (The Cool Down)
- “Bird flu fears as 18 states place restrictions on cow movement to prevent spread of virus” – (Daily Express US)
- “Bird flu is spreading to more farm animals. Are milk and eggs safe?” –(Associated Press)
- The paper said at the time, “Agriculture officials in at least 17 states have restricted imports of dairy cattle from states where the virus has been detected;” adding that cow-to-cow transmission was unlikely but still possible; pasteurized milk should kill it, but raw milk is questionable.
- “Opinion: The next pandemic threat demands action now” – (CNN)
- “6 Symptoms of Bird Flu in Humans” – (Best Life)
- this list includes eye redness, fatigue, fever, flu-like symptoms, gut problems, seizures).
- “What are the symptoms of bird flu in humans? How does avian flu spread?” – (AS USA)
- Lists modes of transmission as direct contact, inhalation, eating contaminated food, and person-to-person transmission
The list goes on as this is just a small sampling of them this month.
But, more recently this week, defying previous warnings and statements, now officials and the media are reporting bird flu is now confirmed to be transmitting between cows, and has been found in pasteurized milk, after claiming that the process kills the virus and is safe to drink. A number of MSM publications have sounded-off on this, such as ABC News.
Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted a new update on their findings concerning the A (H5) and A (H7) viruses, confirming contamination in pasteurized milk with the used of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. They wrote:
Today, the FDA received some initial results from its nationally representative commercial milk sampling study. The agency continues to analyze this information; however, the initial results 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.
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