Deadly Bird Flu has jumped to Humans

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Now China reports TWO human cases of bird flu in middle-aged man and woman hundreds of miles apart - amid fears of zoonotic outbreak​

China has reported two human cases of bird flu in a man and woman more than 800 hundreds miles apart — amid growing concerns the virus is poised to spill over into people and cause a pandemic.

The 53-year-old woman from the Jiangsu province in eastern China tested positive last month for the H5N1 strain that has been devastating the world's bird populations, according to the BNO news agency.

Meanwhile, Chinese health officials announced that a 49-year-old man in southern China's Guangdong province tested positive for H5N6 after coming into contact with live birds.

The Hong Kong department of health and center for health protection (CHP) announced yesterday that the man contracted the flu after he came into contact with live birds.

He developed symptoms on December 17 last year was admitted to the hospital four days later in a 'serious condition'.

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Now China reports TWO human cases of bird flu in middle-aged man and woman hundreds of miles apart - amid fears of zoonotic outbreak​

China has reported two human cases of bird flu in a man and woman more than 800 hundreds miles apart — amid growing concerns the virus is poised to spill over into people and cause a pandemic.

The 53-year-old woman from the Jiangsu province in eastern China tested positive last month for the H5N1 strain that has been devastating the world's bird populations, according to the BNO news agency.

Meanwhile, Chinese health officials announced that a 49-year-old man in southern China's Guangdong province tested positive for H5N6 after coming into contact with live birds.

The Hong Kong department of health and center for health protection (CHP) announced yesterday that the man contracted the flu after he came into contact with live birds.

He developed symptoms on December 17 last year was admitted to the hospital four days later in a 'serious condition'.

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H5N6 is a completely different strain, and therefore not part of the same outbreak.

 

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H5N6 is a completely different strain, and therefore not part of the same outbreak.

So then China has two cases with two different strains, I'm assuming the H5N6 is a weaker strain than the H5N1?...

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I am not sure where Robert F. Kennedy is getting his information that natural bird flu (there are many different avian influenzas of varying severity) is "notoriously harmless to humans". H5N1 bird flu, which first appeared in China in 1996, long before Gates became involved in biotech, and is the strain that everyone is concerned about in particular, is notoriously deadly to humans (with an observed case fatality rate of 60%). It is however not particularly transmissible between humans, yet. Although that could change. Unlike Covid, we have been seeing H5N1 in the wild for decades, and there have been many animal-human crossover events in that time. Every time there is a new crossover event, there is a risk that it might then go on to infect other people. Also, all influenzas probably ultimately came to infect humans from birds, as it is thought that the virus originally crossed over into humans, and into mammalian livestock (which is another disease vector for influenza), from birds in China, in centuries past.

 

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Nearly 3,500 sea lions in Peru die of H5N1 bird flu​

Nearly 3,500 sea lions in Peru have recently died of H5N1 avian influenza, five times as many as previously reported, the government announced Thursday amid growing concern about the virus. Tens of thousands of birds have also died.

According to an update from the agriculture ministry, at least 3,487 South American sea lions have been found dead in seven natural areas since November. This represents approximately 3.3% of the total population in the country.

The numbers are significantly higher compared to mid-February, when 700 sea lions were reported to have died.

“The high mortality observed was worrisome; for instance, up to 100 dead individuals floating together in the sea – an unprecedented observation for this geographical region,” researchers said in a study last month. “The clinical symptoms of dying individuals were mainly neurological, such as tremors, convulsions and paralysis.”

The South American fur seal has also been affected, with five of these mammals having been found dead in recent weeks. Authorities have also reported the deaths of a dolphin and a lion.

It’s unclear how the sea lions were infected but researchers have not been able to rule out mammal-to-mammal transmission. “This should be urgently investigated,” the authors of the study said.

At least 63,000 birds at 8 protected natural sites in Peru have also died since the start of the outbreak, including boobies, pelicans and guanayes.

The global spread of H5N1 avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b – and the recent spread to a growing number of mammals – has raised concern about the possibility of a future variant which could lead to human-to-human transmission.

“The global H5N1 situation is worrying given the wide spread of the virus in birds around the world and the increasing reports of cases in mammals, including in humans,” Dr. Sylvie Briand, a WHO official, said on Friday. “WHO takes the risk from this virus seriously and urges heightened vigilance from all countries.”

Earlier this week, China reported a case of H5N1 bird flu in a 53-year-old woman from Jiangsu province. The news came just a week after an 11-year-old girl in Cambodia died from an older variant of the virus, which also infected her father.

In January, Ecuador reported the first human case of H5N1 bird flu in South America. The 9-year-old became seriously ill but has since recovered. A 38-year-old woman in China died in September.

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Biden to give the pecking order: President is considering vaccinating CHICKENS to contain worst bird flu outbreak in history​

The White House is contemplating a mass bird flu vaccine rollout for America's chickens amid a record outbreak, according to reports.

Around 60 million birds in the US and 200 million globally have been culled to prevent the spread of the H5N1 strain in the past year, driving up the prices of chickens and eggs since early 2022.

There are fears the virus could jump to humans if it acquires dangerous mutations while infection rates are sky-high, with the virus already detected in other mammals such as minks, sea lions and foxes.

White House officials told the New York Times that President Joe Biden is open to the idea of an avian flu vaccine rollout for the nation's birds. It's unclear how many birds would be targeted - with around 10 billion chickens alone produced in America each year solely for meat.

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The FDA had better label all chicken food products as vaccinated or unvaccinated if the government demands chickens be vaccinated for bird flu...I'm sure there will be unvaccinated organic chicken available however the cost will likely be astronomical if all of this is implemented...

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China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu​

A woman in southern China has tested positive for H3N8 bird flu, local officials say, making it only the third time that the virus has been found in humans, although a previous strain may have caused the 1889 pandemic.

The Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in a brief statement released on Monday, said a 56-year-old woman from Zhongshan City had been infected with H3N8.

The woman, who has multiple myeloma and other underlying health conditions, had exposure to live poultry before falling ill, the statement said. Wild birds are also frequently found near her home.

Details about her condition have not been released.

“No abnormalities have been found in close contacts so far,” the Guangdong CDC said. “Experts believe that this is a sporadic case and the risk of virus transmission is low at this stage.”

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Bird flu is just FOUR mutations away from causing human outbreak - as experts describe virus as 'pandemic threat that's going to keep knocking at our door'​

Bird flu is just four mutations away from being able to jump to humans and cause a pandemic, experts warn.

The virus has been given ample opportunity to spread in recent years as it rampages across the world's bird and mammal population.

Each time it begins replicating in a new host it earns another chance to mutate and potentially gain one of these deadly traits.

Some mutations it could gain that cause it to pose a risk to humans includes the ability to survive in the air and optimizing itself to infect human cells.

Experts highlight four key traits bird flu can pick up through mutation that can lead to it causing a pandemic level even in humans. Two mutations would need to occur on the hemagglutinin, the outside parts of the virus responsible for binding it to human cells. With these mutations, it can travel through the air and bypass the body's natural defenses. Other changes include matching itself to better connect to human viruses rather than birds, and to optimize itself to strike cell proteins.

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Two Brits are struck down with bird flu but health chiefs insist there's no proof killer virus is spreading between humans​

Two British poultry workers have tested positive for bird flu, UK health officials have confirmed.

Both workers tested positive this month after working on an infected farm in England and were detected during routine monitoring.

Neither of the workers experienced any symptoms of avian influenza and have since tested negative for the virus.

Health officials said one of the persons infected likely tested positive for bird flu after inadvertently inhaling infected material, like faeces, from diseased animals.

But they added how the second person had come into contact with the virus was currently unclear.

While investigations are underway The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said 'precautionary' contract tracing is underway for the second individual.

Officials added that there is no evidence the disease is spreading from person to person and the overall risk to the public remains low.

They also said the cases don't necessarily represent genuine infections of bird flu.

Instead, the workers could have inhaled virus infected matter, like bird faeces, which then became stuck in their nostrils or throat and was picked up by the testing swab.

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Alaska polar bear dies of bird flu in world's first fatal case for the species - as highly-infectious pathogen rips across North America​

An Alaskan polar bear is the first of its kind to die from bird flu - as the highly pathogenic avian influenza continues to spread around the world.

The polar bear - which is listed as threatened on the endangered species list - was found dead in October near Utqiagvik, Alaska, the northernmost community in the United States.

On December 6, the Alaska state veterinarian confirmed the bear died from the avian influenza - the world's first recorded fatal case for the species.

Dr. Bob Gerlach, Alaska's state veterinarian, told the Alaska Beacon this case was reported to the World Organization for Animal Health.

'This is the first polar bear case reported, for anywhere,' Gerlach said.

He said that polar bears normally eat seals but it is likely this bear caught the virus by eating a dead bird.

Gerlach noted that because of the environment and the nature of the disease, the polar bear did not have to directly eat an infected bird to become sick.

'If a bird dies of this, especially if it's kept in a cold environment, the virus can be maintained for a while in the environment,' he said.

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Bird flu seems to be spreading in certain mammals...

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Avian flu keeps killing seashore mammals along South Atlantic shores​

Health authorities in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina are increasingly concerned over the appearance of hundreds of dead sea lions presumably killed by avian flu, it was reported.

Off the Uruguayan city of Chuy bordering Brazil, some 552 dead sea were found lifeless as fears mount that the disease might spread uncontrollably.

In addition, more than 500 sea lions died on the southern Brazilian coast, victims of an outbreak of avian influenza, the government of the state of Rio Grande do Sul said last week. In the small city of Santa Victoria do Palmar alone, 164 dead animals were registered on Friday.

Brazilian authorities said that “from now on, no more samples will be taken from animals of the same species where the virus has already been confirmed”, restricting the tests only to new species showing symptoms. Although human infection is unusual, residents were advised not to approach the animals or birds.

In early October, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock reported the first outbreak of the disease in marine mammals in the country, in Cassino, a beach in Rio Grande do Sul. However, Brazil continues to have “disease-free” status because “no commercial production was affected.”

Peru, Chile, and Argentina also recorded deaths in their marine fauna due to the virus, which causes severe muscular, neurological, and respiratory symptoms. It is transmitted by oral and respiratory routes and is spread by secretions and excretions.

Argentine specialists in Mar del Plata said that on the beaches of the province of Buenos Aires alone, over 700 sea lions died in a little more than two months affected by avian flu. The National Animal Health Service (Senasa) found that one in three of the dead animals succumbed to the virus, thus dealing a blow to the colony that has an important presence between the Fishermen's Bench of the South Escollera and is also a tourist attraction. Specialists are reluctant to say that the situation is under control, but they do believe that the worst is over. The hardest part was since mid-August and throughout September as alerts kept coming from different points of the seafront. In Argentine Patagonia, almost 2,500 elephant seals were found dead due to avian flu. Most of them were calves.

Last weekend, 707 bodies were found on the Buenos Aires shores and transferred under sanitary protocols to their site of burial. Of this total, 245 were recovered in Mar del Plata. Some other fifty animals were treated for showing symptoms such as tremors, spasms, vomiting, and other signs frequently found in cases of avian influenza.

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US is collaborating with Chinese scientists to make bird flu strains more infectious and deadly as part of $1m project - despite fears similar tests unleashed Covid​

The US government is spending $1million of American taxpayer money to fund gain-of-function experiments on dangerous bird flu viruses in collaboration with Chinese scientists.

The research involves infecting ducks and geese with different strains to make them more transmissible and infectious, and study the viruses' potential to 'jump into mammalian hosts,' according to the research documents.

It is being funded through the US Department of Agriculture and will take place at sites in Georgia, Beijing and Edinburgh in Scotland.

It comes despite such research being restricted in 2022 and growing concerns that dubious Chinese research may have started the Covid pandemic.

The documents were obtained by the campaign group, The White Coat Waste Project, and shared with DailyMail.com.

The papers show funding for the avian virus research began in April 2021 and it is slated to continue through March 2026.

The specific viruses the researchers will work with include H5NX, H7N9 and H9N2.

A 2023 study described H5NX viruses as 'highly pathogenic' with the ability to cause neurological complications in humans.

The H7N9 strain first infected humans and animals in China in March 2013 and the World Health Organization said it is of concern 'because most patients have become severely ill.'

The H9N2 strain has been found in dove in China and while it has a lower pathogenicity than the other strains, it can still infect humans.

The main collaborators on the project are USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute - a Wuhan lab partner.

Additionally, one of the researchers being funded by the USDA is Wenju Liu, who is affiliated with the WIV - which is believed to have sparked the Covid pandemic - and a member of the board of a scientific journal, working with Zheng-Li Shi, who is known as the 'bat lady' for her extensive work on bat coronaviruses.

Different aspects of the research are slated to take place in multiple locations, including poultry research centers in Athens, Georgia, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh and at the Chinese academy in Beijing.

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US is collaborating with Chinese scientists to make bird flu strains more infectious and deadly as part of $1m project - despite fears similar tests unleashed Covid​

The US government is spending $1million of American taxpayer money to fund gain-of-function experiments on dangerous bird flu viruses in collaboration with Chinese scientists.

The research involves infecting ducks and geese with different strains to make them more transmissible and infectious, and study the viruses' potential to 'jump into mammalian hosts,' according to the research documents.

It is being funded through the US Department of Agriculture and will take place at sites in Georgia, Beijing and Edinburgh in Scotland.

It comes despite such research being restricted in 2022 and growing concerns that dubious Chinese research may have started the Covid pandemic.

The documents were obtained by the campaign group, The White Coat Waste Project, and shared with DailyMail.com.

The papers show funding for the avian virus research began in April 2021 and it is slated to continue through March 2026.

The specific viruses the researchers will work with include H5NX, H7N9 and H9N2.

A 2023 study described H5NX viruses as 'highly pathogenic' with the ability to cause neurological complications in humans.

The H7N9 strain first infected humans and animals in China in March 2013 and the World Health Organization said it is of concern 'because most patients have become severely ill.'

The H9N2 strain has been found in dove in China and while it has a lower pathogenicity than the other strains, it can still infect humans.

The main collaborators on the project are USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute - a Wuhan lab partner.

Additionally, one of the researchers being funded by the USDA is Wenju Liu, who is affiliated with the WIV - which is believed to have sparked the Covid pandemic - and a member of the board of a scientific journal, working with Zheng-Li Shi, who is known as the 'bat lady' for her extensive work on bat coronaviruses.

Different aspects of the research are slated to take place in multiple locations, including poultry research centers in Athens, Georgia, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh and at the Chinese academy in Beijing.

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Why in Gods name would we make an infectious disease along with China??

 

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Why in Gods name would we make an infectious disease along with China??

Bird flu is already deadly enough, it is insane what our government is doing by experimenting with these viruses...'We the People' have no voice to stop them since our government does not represent us...

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Goat in Minnesota tests positive for H5N1 bird flu strain that's on the WHO's pandemic watchlist in first ever US case - as experts call it a 'worrisome development'​

A goat in Minnesota has tested positive for bird flu, in the first case of bird flu in domestic livestock in US history.

The baby goat, who tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza strain H5N1, the strain of bird flu that has been spreading since 2022, was from a farm in Stevens County in the west of the state.

Officials suspect the goat caught the flu from the infected bird because the animals shared the same space and had access to a shared water source.

Dr Thomas Moore, an infectious diseases doctor at the University of Kansas, say it marks a 'worrisome development' because it shows the virus is edging closer to infecting other mammals and even humans.

It is rare for mammals to get bird flu because they have fewer of the receptors in their upper airways which the virus binds to.

The baby goat, who tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza strain H5N1, the strain of bird flu that has been spreading since 2022, was from a farm in Stevens County in the west of the state.

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Officials suspect the goat caught the flu from the infected bird because the animals shared the same space and had access to a shared water source.

People need to stop that. I see that there are a lot of homesteaders on Youtube who have all of their mixed animal species (mammals and birds) in shared enclosures.

 

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Europe Greenlights Two Avian Flu Vaccines​

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has recommended the approval of two vaccines for active immunization against the H5N1 subtype of the influenza A virus, which causes avian influenza or bird flu.

Celldemic is a zoonotic H5N1 influenza vaccine intended for active immunization of adults and infants from 6 months of age in the event of influenza outbreaks originating from animals, including situations where public health authorities foresee a potential pandemic.

Incellipan is a pandemic preparedness H5N1 vaccine and is intended for deployment solely upon the official declaration of a flu pandemic. After identifying the virus strain responsible, the manufacturer can incorporate it into the authorized vaccine. They then need to seek authorization for that vaccine as the "final" pandemic vaccine. The accelerated authorization process for the final pandemic vaccine is facilitated by the prior assessment of its quality, safety, and efficacy with other potential pandemic strains.

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