Elderly Patient With Preexisting Conditions Becomes First Bird Flu Related Death
Meanwhile, on social media, many are just saying “NO” to flu-caused-fear.
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Legal Insurrection readers may recall my report on California Gov. Gavin Newsom declaring an emergency after the first critical case of bird flu was reported in an elderly patient in Louisiana.
The hospitalized patient also had preexisting medical conditions and likely contracted the H5N1 (aka Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza/HPAI) virus while tending to his own flock of birds (or perhaps from a wild bird that was mingling with his own).
The patient has since succumbed, and officials have declared it the first human bird flu death in this country.
State health officials announced the death, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated it was the nation’s first due to bird flu.
Health officials have said the person was older than 65, had underlying medical problems and had been in contact with sick and dead birds in a backyard flock. They also said a genetic analysis had suggested the bird flu virus had mutated inside the patient, which could have led to the more severe illness.
Few other details about the person have been disclosed.
Since March, 66 confirmed bird flu infections have been reported in the U.S., but previous illnesses have been mild and most have been detected among farmworkers exposed to sick poultry or dairy cows.
A bird flu death was not unexpected, virus experts said. There have been more than 950 confirmed bird flu infections globally since 2003, and more than 460 of those people died, according to the World Health Organization.
I would like to take a moment to put those last numbers reported by the AP, which I cited above, in perspective.
- 1) This particular bird flu strain has been circulating for over 2 years, yet less than 1000 bird flu cases were reported.
- 2) The vast majority of bird flu deaths are in poor rural areas, where people live closely with their flocks. They also clean and eat infected birds, resulting in an introduction of a high viral load into their systems.
- 3) Poor rural areas are known for malnourished populations with poor access to medical care. Hence, all types of influenzas can lead to substantially worse outcomes than will likely occur in more developed nations.
- 4) Despite some public health “experts” ginning up fears about mutations, there is still no evidence that human-to-human transmission is occurring.
- 5) Finally, specific to this case, was it really the bird flu that was the cause of death….or was it actually the medical condition that was made worse by the infection?
There are some signs the establishment media has learned a few lessons about pandemic reporting. I am heartened by reading the fact that the Louisiana patient was 65-years-old and had medical conditions early in the articles, rather than having that information buried after paragraphs of panic-inducing snippets.
News accounts also stress that the risk to humans is low, and real attention should be given to the impacts on animals. This is from The New York Times:
There is no sign that the virus is spreading from person to person anywhere in the country, and Louisiana officials have not identified any other cases in the state. Pasteurized dairy products remain safe to consume.
“I still think the risk remains low,” said Dr. Diego Diel, a virologist at Cornell University.
“However, it is important that people remain vigilant and avoid contact with sick animals, sick poultry, sick dairy cattle, and also avoid contact with wild birds,” he added.
However, not every public health organization has rethought the approach to contagion in the wake of the massive failures associated with trying to contain and control COVID-19. This statement comes from a World Health Organization (WHO) official.
“We’ve been studying the family tree of this virus for 25 odd years, and this is probably the nastiest form of the virus that we’ve seen. So the fact that it finally did cause a fatal infection here is tragic but not surprising,” said Dr. Richard Webby, who directs the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
WHO still aspires to get countries to agree to a “pandemic treaty.”
Meanwhile, many are just saying “NO” to flu-caused-fear on social media.
— Janiceeee (@jaaaniceeeee) January 6, 2025
I WILL NOT COMPLYhttps://t.co/mg3VGULIaw pic.twitter.com/hCLJhLtJbo
— Jon Fleetwood (@JonMFleetwood) January 6, 2025
lying CBS breaking out the old china virus playbook
resident was 65+ with undisclosed (of course) health issues
i suspect actual cause of death was something else, and resident just happened to have “bird flu”.
WE REMEMBER!!
— malabamawalz (@malabamawalz24) January 7, 2025
The strategies are simple for this virus:
1) Let our agricultural professionals and veterinarians take the lead on responses.
2) Keep yourself as healthy as possible.
3) Follow sensible flu-prevention guidelines.
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Comments
Well, that didn’t take long. Now the Karens will demand: “Wear two masks! Stay at home! It’s all Trump’s fault! We need more COVID checks for the lazy and worthless!” Old, fat and pre-existing conditions explained a lot of COVID–but let’s trash the economy anyway!
Let’s not get over-cautious:Masks required only in poultry section of grocery store.
So in Louisiana one is 15x more likely to die in an Islamic terrorist attack than from the bird flu?
This is what the ‘data science’ tells us, unequivocally.
I am glad that I got rid of my flock of chickens a few years ago 🙂
They will work this fear-porn like a 3 dollar whore with a 75 year old client, but its not going anywhere.
Since Bird Flues cause extreme eye irritation in humans, they are very unlikely to spread very well between people. If your eyes are bloody and you can’t see very well, you aren’t going to be mingling with other people.
Did the patient die OF bird flu? or WITH bird flu?
So many “covid victims” had multiple underlying complications that would have been the “cause of death” in NORMAL times.
If he had been hit by a bus, but showed the bird flu symptoms, he would have been labeled a bird flu death.