Study Reveals Population Has No Immunity Against New Bird Flu Strain - Should We Be Worried?
Should you be worried about the lack of immunity to avian influenza in the human population? The short answer is “not yet.” But you may need to be soon.
The CDC recently reported on a study involving a small study of only 35 dairy farmworkers from Michigan and Colorado who may have been exposed to infected cattle (the herds they worked with tested positive for H5N1). Preliminary findings show no antibodies specific to H5N1 in any of the blood samples collected.
As of September 13, 2024, only 14 human cases of avian influenza have been reported.
Of these,
- Four cases were linked to exposure to infected dairy cows
- Nine cases were linked to infected poultry
- And only one case has been linked to no known animal exposure.
Symptoms are generally mild with cough, sore throat, stuffy nose, shortness of breath, eye irritation, fever, chills, and body aches. This could change, however.
The last avian flu pandemic was the “Influenza H1N1 pandemic of 1918-1919” which killed an estimated 50-100 million worldwide.
The virus is usually confined to the bird population. Recently, highly pathogenic the H5N1 flu Clade 2.3.4.4b in which gain-of-function research conducted in the US Poultry Research Center in Athens, Georgia has taken a turn and has been shown to jump from the avian population to mammals.
Gain of function research involving the clade that is now circulating leads to speculation that they, the “scientists” and researchers are attempting to get the virus to jump into the human population, where human-to-human transmission could wipe out millions.
Of Mice and Ferrets
A recent paper in the journal “Nature” on avian influenza and pandemic potential found that the H5N1 virus was found in mice that had consumed unpasteurized milk from an infected cow. The virus was detected in the mammary glands of the infected mice, where lactating mice infected their offspring. Other adult mice in the same cage were not infected.
To test whether the virus can be transmitted through the air in respiratory droplets, the researchers housed uninfected ferrets in cages next to infected ones. For almost two weeks, the exposed ferrets never developed disease symptoms or had a virus detected in nasal swabs. However one out of four exposed ferrets did show an immune system response to the virus, suggesting infection.
Excerpt:
“Human influenza viruses bind to a structure on the surfaces of cells in the human upper respiratory tract that allows them to enter the cells. Bird influenza viruses, in contrast, usually bind to a different, related structure. However, the team found that the cow H5N1 virus could bind to both. This suggests that the virus could infect cells in the human upper respiratory tract. However, this mode of transmission is unlikely to cause a pandemic because of its low infection rate.” (only one in four infected via respiratory droplets) (1)
In steps gain of function - It’s game on
After being forced to pause gain of function research at the University of Wisconsin back in October 2014, the NIH lifted a funding pause on gain of function research in 2017 on not only avian influenza viruses but also SARS and MERS viruses. This gave them- the scientists- the green light to develop a strain of avian influenza that can be transmitted from human to human. So, they went to work on doing just that- in the name of studying the virus for “pandemic potential.”
That same year, the Department of Health and Human Services published a paper titled
The document is full of the words “funding agency” (it is mentioned 35 times). There is no record of any disciplinary action if the recipient fails to abide by their standard. The only real repercussion seems to be that they would have their funding pulled. Of course, there are other players that would love a pandemic. They are developing a vaccine for it.
In the document, it states:
“The purpose of the department-level review is to provide a multidisciplinary, pre-funding review and evaluation of proposed research that meets the scope outlined in Section II to recommend whether HHS funding is appropriate, and if so, to help identify the appropriate risk mitigation strategies.
Extra care in the department-level review should be given to proposed research that is
reasonably anticipated to:
- Enhance the harmful consequences of the pathogen.
- Disrupt immunity or the effectiveness of an immunization against the pathogen without clinical or agricultural justification.
- Confer to the pathogen resistance to clinically or agriculturally useful prophylactic or
- therapeutic interventions against that pathogen or facilitate the pathogen’s ability to evade
- detection methodologies.
- Increase the stability, transmissibility, or the ability to disseminate the pathogen.
- Alter the host range or tropism of the pathogen.
- Enhance the susceptibility of a host population to the pathogen; or
- Generate or reconstitute an eradicated or extinct pathogen.”
Nowhere in the paper does it give guidelines as to what “extra care” is. Essentially these scientists have been given the keys to unlimited unharnessed research into developing a virus that could potentially kill millions.
That doesn’t reassure me that they won’t try to push the limits. They have been given free rein to do whatever they want with the blessing of the DHS.
What you can do
Don’t take their vaccine- or at least know what the ingredients they are injecting into you are. They are not to be trusted. Given the horrendous track record of the deadly Covid shot, be wary of anything the bad actors in the government roll out, especially since they are the ones wanting to start another pandemic.
It is just a matter of time before they develop a human-to-human highly contagious avian influenza strain.
In the meantime:
- Have your vitamin D level tested. Vitamin D boosts the immune system.
- Eliminate sugar from your diet.
- Practice hand washing, use alcohol-based hand sanitizer- or make a highly effective hand sanitizer using our Essential Oil Kit. You can even make a household cleaner to kill germs on surfaces in your home (instructions in the guidebook)
- Pick up a Contagion Emergency Kit for every member of your family. Tamiflu, a proven antiviral effective against avian influenza, budesonide, which can reduce viral load and provide respiratory relief, along with other prescription-only medications to fight viral and bacterial infections.
References
- Eisfeld AJ, Biswas A, Guan L, Gu C, Maemura T, Trifkovic S, Wang T, Babujee L, Dahn R, Halfmann PJ, Barnhardt T, Neumann G, Suzuki Y, Thompson A, Swinford AK, Dimitrov KM, Poulsen K, Kawaoka Y. Pathogenicity and transmissibility of bovine H5N1 influenza virus. Nature. 2024 Sep;633(8029):426-432. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07766-6. Epub 2024 Jul 8. PMID: 38977017; PMCID: PMC11390473.
Written By Brooke Lounsbury
