The last time we checked on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), better known as the “bird flu,” five Colorado poultry workers had developed symptoms of bird flu (mainly pink eye).
Now, the state is reporting its 10th case of human HPAI infection. Officials stress it is only now seen in people with direct contact with infected animals.
Additional Colorado poultry workers have tested positive for H5 bird flu, the state health department announced Thursday. The department said it has now recorded a total of nine poultry cases; six at one operation and three at another. That’s in addition to the case of a dairy worker earlier this month, the state’s first this year.Health officials said they are not detecting any spread among the public, which would heighten the urgency of the situation and likely ramp up additional preventive and protective measures.“The risk to the general public is still low. We are only seeing this in workers with direct contact with these animals,” said Scott Bookman, Senior Director for Public Health Readiness and Response with the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. “The milk supply is safe; the food supply is safe. We are not seeing any evidence of human-to-human transmission.”
Meanwhile, some scientists warn that bird flu has made a concerning leap from birds to dairy cattle across multiple U.S. states, indicating that mammal-to-mammal transmission is occurring.
This development has seen the virus spreading between cows and even jumping to other animals, including cats and a raccoon, according to a new study.”The virus is currently evolving to become better adapted to mammals,” Anthony Maresso, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine who is monitoring avian influenza in Texas wastewater but did not work on the study, told Newsweek.”It’s learning and improving its ability to find new hosts, such as cows, and the concern is that it might soon achieve its ultimate goal—human-to-human transmission.”Diego Diel, the study’s lead author and an associate professor of virology at Cornell University, added that while whole genome sequencing did not identify any mutations making bird flu more transmissible to humans, the data is still concerning as it suggests that the virus may be adapting in mammals.
In a disturbing development parallel to the bird flu reports, “experts” are trying to assert that the failed COVID mask and vaccine mandates would have saved 250,000 lives if only they had been implemented more stringently.
Stricter COVID-19 restrictions could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the states that refused to institute them, though efforts to close nursing homes and schools likely caused more harm than good, a new study has found.Between 118,000 and 248,000 more Americans would have survived the pandemic if all states had followed some restrictions practiced in Northeastern states, according to findings published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).The most effective responses were mask mandates and vaccine requirements, the JAMA study found.“COVID-19 restrictions saved lives,” the researchers wrote.“The death toll was probably considerably higher than it would otherwise have been in states that resisted imposing these restrictions, banned their use, or implemented them for only relatively short periods of time.”
I will point out that Dr. Anthony Fauci has pointed out that the mask mandate was not based on science. Furthermore, COVID is now an endemic disease; many who received the COVID-19 vaccines contracted the disease anyway, and thousands claim they were injured after COVID-19 vaccine injections.
The Covid vaccines, a triumph of science and public health, are estimated to have prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths. Yet even the best vaccines produce rare but serious side effects. And the Covid vaccines have been given to more than 270 million people in the United States, in nearly 677 million doses.Dr. Zimmerman’s account is among the more harrowing, but thousands of Americans believe they suffered serious side effects following Covid vaccination. As of April, just over 13,000 vaccine-injury compensation claims have been filed with the federal government — but to little avail. Only 19 percent have been reviewed. Only 47 of those were deemed eligible for compensation, and only 12 have been paid out, at an average of about $3,600.Some scientists fear that patients with real injuries are being denied help and believe that more needs to be done to clarify the possible risks.“At least long Covid has been somewhat recognized,” said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist and vaccine expert at Yale University. But people who say they have post-vaccination injuries are “just completely ignored and dismissed and gaslighted,” she added.
People are going to be extremely cautious going forward.
Bird flu may be the early contender for 2024’s election cycle pandemic. However, I suspect the public will not be inclined to take the guidance, as we are still recovering from what the “experts” did in 2020.
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