WHO and Media Collude to Dial Up “Bird Flu” Fears to Maximum Level
WHO has a pandemic treaty that is floundering, as countries are no longer keen to commit themselves to an organization that failed so spectacularly during the last pandemic.
It is becoming quite clear that the World Health Organization (WHO) is longing to return to the days when its band of bureaucrats wielded enormous powers due to fears about the COVID pandemic and the elite media peddled misinformation produced by “experts” to a captive audience.
Legal Insurrection has followed the severe bird flu pandemic since reports of its initial outbreaks on American poultry farms, including its spread to mammals. We noted that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is now being reported in cattle in six states, and a Texas man had a case.
But we have also stressed that the disease has been mild in cows, and the Texas man essentially had a bad case of “pink eye.”
Yet it seems the global health bureaucracy’s new motto is “never let a good virus go to waste.” WHO is now expressing “enormous concern” about the spread of the new bird flu.
On April 18, Dr. Jeremy Farrar — WHO’s chief scientist — said the current outbreak, which began in 2020 and reached the United States in 2022, is a “significant public health concern” as infections are spreading among mammals, stressing that there is an “extremely high” mortality rate in humans.
“H5N1 is (an) influenza infection, predominantly started in poultry and ducks and has spread effectively over the course of the last one or two years to become a global zoonotic – animal – pandemic,” he said, according to a United Nations report.
“The great concern, of course, is that in doing so and infecting ducks and chickens — but now increasingly mammals — that virus now evolves and develops the ability to infect humans,” he added. “And then critically, the ability to go from human-to-human transmission.”
I would like to stress that human-to-human transmission of this virus has not been documented and the cases reported in humans in this country have been mild. Part of the scare-reporting associated with the news of WHO’s “enormous concern” is related to the fatalities associated with human infections when they do occur:
In the hundreds of cases where humans have been infected through contact with animals, ‘the mortality rate is extraordinarily high’, Sir Jeremy said.
Official data shows between 2003 and April 1, 2024, there have been 463 deaths recorded from 889 human cases across 23 countries. This puts the case fatality rate at 52 per cent.
But what was the background associated with those who were infected and died? Were they very old or young? Were they in good health, or did they have co-morbidities and pre-existing conditions?
I did some looking around, and here is some critical information:
Since 2003, 868 confirmed infections in people and 457 deaths have been reported to the World Health Organisation, from 21 countries. This includes 57 infections and 37 fatalities in Cambodia – before this week, the most recent detection in the southeast Asian country was in 2014.
Cambodia’s healthcare system may not be up to the task of providing robust care to influenza patients. What were the other 20 countries where infections occurred? The list of countries from our own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) includes the following: Egypt, China, Pakistan, Lao, Djibouti, Nigeria and Mynmar. Many of these countries also lack significant medical infrastructure.
Looking into the information a bit more, here is the background on Cambodia’s bird flu experience:
In the past decade, children accounted for nearly 80 percent of bird flu fatalities in Cambodia. In 2014, 100 percent of recorded cases were in the under-14 age group; nine contracted the virus, and four died. Data gathered by the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge shows that the median age of a bird flu patient is six years.
The girl who died in this most recently reported case came from a village, which she likely caught from picking up dead birds around her home:
The young girl who died of the virus in Cambodia lived in a village in Prey Veng province, a region 60 miles southeast of the capital Phnom Penh, and close to the border with Vietnam.
Case after case involves children from poor, rural areas cleaning and eating infected birds.
In 2013, the year of the worst outbreak, Cambodian papers carried numerous reports of young victims sickened by dead fowl that they had either handled or cooked. One H5N1 case involved a nine-year-old boy from Battambang province who helped his father prepare a meal with an infected bird. He fell sick soon after and died in a Siem Reap hospital. “We don’t have money so we didn’t want to waste the dead chicken,” said the boy’s father.
In conclusion, The human fatalities WHO is worried about come from areas in which medical support is limited and where people are directly interacting with and/or consuming dead birds and getting a high viral dose.
But the WHO’s pandemic treaty is floundering, as countries are no longer keen to commit themselves to an organization that failed so spectacularly during the last pandemic.
A huge global effort to draw up rules around who does what in the event of another pandemic is floundering as memories of COVID-19 fade, raising a real possibility that talks will break down and leave the world as unprepared as it was in 2020.
…[T]wo years since countries began brokering the rules, and with less than six months until the deadline for agreement, political attention has shifted to other issues and the usual compromises and concessions of international negotiations are nowhere to be seen, according to diplomats involved in the talks.
“If the countries … really want to have a treaty, they actually need to start really negotiating, not restating their initial positions,” said a diplomat from a developing country, who, like the other diplomats in this article, POLITICO granted anonymity to speak about confidential talks. “Many countries … just say, ‘we don’t want that,’ but they’re not really engaging with the text.”
When I began writing about bird flu, I worried most about our nation’s farms. I am glad I have followed the developments, as it appears WHO’s agenda has nothing to do with the real risks associated with this particular virus.
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They certainly do seem to be looking for excuses to steal the election. God knows Brandon the pedophile couldn’t win honestly
Jesus christ, it’s a story about a virus not a means to steal an election. Maybe MAGA should get some policies that actually work or people like rather than being all whiny about constantly losing elections, it’s really quite pitiful.
“Jesus Christ, it’s a story about a virus, not a means to steal an election!”
And exactly what was the story of SARS-Cov-2? That virus was used as an excuse to push unwanted mail-in ballots and have insecure elections.
MAGA is stuffed with good policies: DJT is once again running on good policies, unlike Joe Biden, who like the execrable Hillary Clinton, is running a campaign of slander and intimidation.
Unwanted by maga nut jobs who pretend covid wasn’t a big issue that killed 100k plus Americans.
Oh name one of the good policies then
Lol Biden mocking Trump based on Trumps own words isn’t slander.
Have you ever considered that you might be wrong?
Have you ever considered that no one here is taking you seriously?
1) A massive deregulation campaign that boosted economic growth
2) Tax reform that boosted the economy and increased income levels for the poor
3) Immigration reforms that reduced illegal immigration to levels not seen for decades
There’s three, let me know if you want more
The only things pitiful here are your contributions to the discussion. They’re laughably predictable. Time to update your algorithm to generate a bit more variety so you can at least be halfway believable.
Lol your response is pretty predictable too.
Something ad hominem something something waa waa waa.
Note that your responses are entirely devoid of substance
I bet you said that about covid too didn’t you you lying bitch?
It appears I must be right on the mark if you’re reacting so badly.
Do you even read what you write 🤦♂️
When are you going to admit that your election theft, covid victimisation fantasy is just that fantasy
When they allow actual investigations that aren’t fought kicking and screaming the entire time.
At some point you have to take off your tin hat. All the people who said the election was stolen were Gore, Hillary Clinton, and Stacey Abrams. Are you siding for them as well as supporting election fraud?
No, I’m relying on all of the things I saw in 2020 that showed that the pedophile in Chief is illegitimate and should never have been put in that office. That’s why I’ll never accept his authority, I don’t accept stolen elections.
All the things you saw, like what. 2000 mules 😂😂😂
How about 6 states shutting down their counting at practically the same time. In most states it’s illegal to shut down vote tabulation while there are still ballots left to count. How about accepting ballots AFTER voting was shut down? How about multiple instances of batches of ballot with no chain of custody information?
Then, of course, there was the not allowing any sort of serious investigation or audit except in one county in Arizona, which was fought kicking and screaming the entire time, including multiple lawsuits. If the election was honest, let them look and then you can laugh when they find nothing.
I’ll guarantee you, the whole thing was corrupt which is why nobody was allowed to investigate anything.
That’s odd, I don’t recall any special counsel investigations and prosecutions when those hacks challenged elections. Almost like only democrats engage in corrupt lawfare. But that’s crazy talk.
Stealing or even cancelling the election is ALL that this is about, and you can expect to see this every even-numbered year until the left consolidates power and exterminates all opposition. Which it will do.
Don’t worry Tedros says any criticisms of the WHO pandemic treaty are all lies. So nothing to worry about. And in other news the FBI exonerated itself for targeting Catholics.
It’s a bit daft claiming the WHO is over reacting to a potential pandemic when the fatalitie rate is so high. Containing the issue is much better than letting it develop and become a problem. It’s just common sense
Do try thinking before you write. Your idea of a “fatality rate” is FOS. Since 2003, there have been, call it 1,000 diagnoses of this virus and 500 deaths IN 21 COUNTRIES. This virus is already ubiquitous. That is, it’s everywhere, and the reason the numbers aren’t higher is because nobody has noticed. What does that tell you about the real severity, and real fatality rate? BOTH ARE NEGLIGIBLE.
Read the rest of the facts: Most of the cases involve young children handling (and eating!) dead birds. Perhaps you don’t know that nobody in the US in their right minds eats dead animals they find.
When I was a child, I remember my grandfather telling a story about a man he knew, who found a dead turkey, cut it up, and sold it to unsuspecting people. My grandfather was scandalized. His generation put a solid stop to that kind of deadly practice.
In case it needs to be spelled out, the problem with eating dead animals is twofold: 1) You don’t know why they died and 2) they may have begun to rot. Eating rotten meat is asking for trouble.
So how does this affect little children more than adults? It could be that hungry children don’t know enough to spit out spoiled meat. A bird that has died of disease is spoiled, regardless of its taste. This factor alone could explain the rarity of the deaths, and the rarity of the diagnoses. All that needs to be done to avoid it is avoid eating dead, spoiled birds.
This story is about a disease that has been circulating in at least 21 countries that we know of, contacting many millions of people over the last several years, and has left tracks in only 1,000 out of all those many millions.
1. Ubiquitous. No it’s not, only in certain species, its been very rare thus far in humans.
2. The article itself cites a fatality rate of 52% with reference to a specific population
3. Sure the infections are related to eating infected product but the issue is whether the virus mutates to something more transmittance to humans hence the concern
4. No it hasn’t affected millions of people you have no basis to determine that.
Maybe actually read the article and understand what the facts mean. You clearly don’t
Ubiquitous. No it’s not,
Wrong. Avian flue has been found in Arctic polar bears to Antarctic elephant seals. Cats, dogs, lions, foxes, goats, bats, and now cows.
The hosts are every waterfowl on the planet.
The article itself cites a fatality rate of 52%
And….? Rabies has a fatality rate of 99%, with roughly 60,000 deaths per year.
Sure the infections are related to eating infected product…
Wrong. Human infections occur upon direct contact with an infected animal’s saliva, blood, or feces. True, you could be infected by eating improperly – less than 165dg- cooked infected meat, but that just means you are eating infected blood.
Simple question: The boy got sick and died but his father didn’t even get infected after eating the infected bird. Why not?
No it hasn’t affected millions of people…
You also have no basis to determine that.
There are four types of influenza viruses; A, B, C, D. Type A = avian. Type A is categorized in two groups, HA and NA, with 29 (currently) known subtypes.
Type A was first identified 145 years ago. Given the millions of farmers, processing workers, hunters, and the world’ general population corralling and geeking their own food over the ages Valerie’s ascertain is far more likely than yours.
It’s “case fatality rate.”
If only the near-fatal infections get counted as cases…
Only a complete retard would believe those lying assholes after covid.
Q.E.D.
Only a complete retard would believe anti vaxxers after the embarrassing levels of stupidity, scientific illiteracy, naivity, and gullibility after covid
The anti-vaxxers weren’t the one lying about everything and then trying like a bunch of nazis to force people to inject experimental, untested crap into their bodies.
Most of what they said has been found to be quite reasonable by retrospect. After all, they were basically encouraging people to make up their own minds and not to give up their personal freedoms. Only a communist piece of shit like you would find that objectionable.
“Many countries … just say, ‘we don’t want that,’ but they’re not really engaging with the text.”
Try this then: “We aren’t letting the control camel get their nose under the tent by giving up any aspect of our national sovereignty to an organization as incompetent and politicly twisted as the UN and particularly the WHO.”
Advise/assist all you want, but direct/order you will not.
Yeah, that article has quite a PoV, too, doesn’t it? They’ve already decided the next pandemic “absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part. We’re just the guys to do it.”
It gripes about people not getting with the program, rather than making the case for what they want to do. Kinda like the official response to the last one:
“…is floundering as memories of COVID-19 fade…”
Or, is opposed (vs. “foundering”) as memories of the ‘rona responses have not yet faded.
As for “distractions”, there is a lot going on in the world, plus competing panic-mongering, see this at 1:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwTLOwV9k1c
Yeah, I’m dubious.
“countries are no longer keen to commit themselves to an organization that failed so spectacularly”
Why wouldn’t they? “Public health” provides a backdoor around the protections of the constitutions and/or other political systems of practically every country on the globe. The psychopaths in politics have wet dreams about what they could (and some did) do with it.
They are going to get it spectacularly right this time. I’m afraid a lot was learned with round one and balloons mapping prevailing winds.
When we start firebombing places to set a containment area then I will begin to worry. Until then the grifters who oversold Covid can pound sand right alongside those who choose to carry their water or enable them.
Has Event 202 been scheduled yet?
In the 1990s the Marxists push the Great Sexual Harassment scare to smear Justice Thomas and get a group of otherwise unelectable lunatics like Boxer and Murray into Congress. Then William Jefferson Clinton got the Democrat nomination for President, and suddenly Marxists didn’t want to talk about rape and sexual harassment anymore. In the decades since the Marxists have not succeeded to panicking the public like they did back then. So the Wuflu hoax was cooked up.
So it will be with the Wuflu Part II. All swindles eventually run out of suckers.
Great meme on this inevitable progression.