Is Bird Flu the Next Big Thing? By Brian Simpson

For some time I have been warning that the Covid plandemic was a test run, and as Bill Gates has said, the next “pandemic” will be much more severe. Given the technocrat framework that has been put in place with Covid, and the movement to the World Health Organization centralised pandemic treaty, we should be deeply concerned. We have not seen anything yet.

As I noted in a previous article, bird flu is proving to have sharper teeth than monkey pox, which was a fizzer. H5N1 has jumped to mammals, some such as minks with a respiratory system similar to humans. It is possible that a natural evolutionary jump could occur, or some helpful bioweapons lab could give the virus a lift up to humans. This time there will be the deaths that the health authorities thought they saw with Covid. If this happens, life will become infinitely more difficult. It is not clear what the direction will be to take, apart from heading for the hills, so the situation needs to be closely monitored. Hopefully bird flu will pass as it did in 2014, and before.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64474594

The largest ever outbreak of bird flu is spilling over into mammals, including otters and foxes in the UK.

Figures released to the BBC show the virus has led to the death of about 208 million birds around the world and at least 200 recorded cases in mammals.

Public health bosses warn the mutation in mammals could see a jump to humans but the risk to the public is very low.

There will now be more targeted surveillance and testing of animals and humans exposed to the virus in the UK.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) still advises that avian flu is primarily a disease of birds, but experts across the globe are looking at the risks of it spilling over into other species.

Worldwide, the virus has been found in a range of mammals, including grizzly bears in America and mink in Spain, as well as in dolphin and seals.

In the UK, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has tested 66 mammals, including seals, and found nine otters and foxes were positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1.

Cases have been found in Durham, Cheshire and Cornwall in England; Powys in Wales; Shetland, the Inner Hebrides and Fife, Scotland.

It is believed they had fed on dead or sick wild birds infected with the virus.

The animals were found to have a mutation of the virus that could make it easier to infect mammals, but there was no evidence of transmission between mammals.

The APHA added that there was "a very low likelihood of any widespread infection in GB mammals".

Prof Ian Brown, APHA's director of scientific services, said: "A sick or a dead wild bird contains an awful lot of virus. So scavenging mammals that will be opportunistic and predate on dead or sick birds will be exposed to very large quantities of virus. That gives a possibility for the virus to enter a host population that it doesn't normally maintain in."

Prof Brown said that the UK's national avian flu taskforce was now ramping up its surveillance of cases in mammals and genome analysis of the virus itself while keeping a close eye on its spread in global populations of wild birds.

"The virus is absolutely on the march. And it's almost remarkable - it's a single strain," he said, adding that greater international action to tackle its spread was needed.

He told the BBC he was "acutely aware of the risks" of avian flu becoming a pandemic like Covid-19.

He said: "This global spread is a concern. We do need globally to look at new strategies, those international partnerships, to get on top of this disease.

"If we don't solve the problem across the globe, we're going to continue to have that risk."