Bird flu map shows unprecedented spread as expert warns future pandemic inevitable

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Bird Flu outbreaks are increasing in the US (Image: Getty)

Bird flu is sweeping across the US with more than 1,000 outbreaks reported so far, but most Americans have nothing to fear – at least not yet.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the risk to the general public is “low” but it is “watching the situation carefully and working with states to monitor people with animal exposures.”

Since 2022 there have been four reported human cases, the most recent three – all this year – following exposure to infected dairy cows. The risk is tempered by the fact that it doesn’t spread easily among humans.

But public health officials fear that could change. Just recently former CDC director Dr Robert Redfield told NewsNation: “I really do think it’s very likely that we will, at some time, it’s not a question of if, it’s more of a question of when we will have a bird flu pandemic.”

And writing in the New York Times, Dr Jennifer B Nuzzo, an epidemiologist and director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, warned that the virus “could mutate to gain the ability to infect people more easily.”

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That would “likely cause a new pandemic.” With the disease proving fatal in around half of the nearly 900 people known to have contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus worldwide since 2003, bird flu is “typically more dangerous than the viruses that cause seasonal flu and COVID-19.”

Meanwhile, outbreaks of H5N1 have been detected in 525 counties and 48 states. The CDC says almost 97 million birds have been affected since January 2022 when the first H5 viruses to be found in the US since 2016 were detected.

The virus has also spread to 92 dairy cow herds in 12 US states.

Avian influenza – commonly known as bird flu – is a highly contagious viral disease affecting the respiratory, digestive and sometimes nervous system in many species of birds.

There are lots of different strains of the virus, but most don’t infect humans. The H5N1 strain of the virus detected in American poultry and dairy herds has caused concern because it can – in rare cases – be transmitted to humans.

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3 Comments

hnorth1 June 23, 2024 at 11:32

No map…
TRoy June 23, 2024 at 20:13

Yeah, there’s a pandemic around every corner for those who would comply. I, will never take the poison, or comply with foolish directives. I do not worship any man or earthly government. Weather and illnesses are nothing new, but seem to be a tool for the globalist outlandish fairy tales. Without reason applied to these situations, we will believe the “experts”. Didn’t work very well for those who couldn’t think for themselves last time. God made my immune system, and if it can’t take care of a threat, then I guess it was my time anyway.
NonCompliant June 24, 2024 at 01:35

“Inevitable” scamdemic fake psyop like the last scam aka covid. Not one word of the “medical community” should be taken seriously. They’ve destroyed all credibility when it comes to pandemics. Dancing nurse lying f*cks