The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a leading organization that warns about collapse threats, just issued another warning on an H5N1 (bird flu) pandemic:
We have provided a link to their article below, but here are they key points (all direct quotes from the article):
- By now it’s clear there’s no reason for optimism that H5N1 will fade away as a minor nuisance. To the contrary, the situation has only been trending worse.
- With many signs pointing to a future flu pandemic . . .
- Infection with the avian virus has expanded with unprecedented rapidity in wild and domestic birds, along with marine and terrestrial mammals. In one recent and frightening incident in late 2024, of the 37 big cats harbored at a sanctuary in Shelton, Washington, including cougars, bobcats, and tigers, 20 died of infection with the virus, most over a 24-hour period.
- The virus poses a serious threat.
- It has killed half of the close to 1,000 people who’ve contracted it since the early 2000s‚ predominantly in Southeast Asia.
- Of particular concern: When two different strains of the virus co-infect a single host, they can exchange segments of their genomes, a process called reassortment. This can create a new virus with a different combination of properties. For example, the human swine flu, (H1N1) epidemic of 1985-1989 was caused by a virus that arose from the swapping of segments in a pig that was co-infected with a human and a bird strain of the virus. This sort of mixing in animals is becoming more likely in the current avian influenza outbreak, which is occurring alongside extremely high levels of seasonal influenza.
- Earlier this month, the Department of Agriculture revealed a second strain of H5N1 had jumped from birds into three dairy herds in Nevada. The jump involved the more lethal strain D1.1 strain, which has mutations that could make the virus spread more easily in mammals, as opposed to the milder B3.13 strain which has been infecting herds since last summer.
- With the cases of birds and mammals infected with the virus continuing to explode, the appearance of a transmissible pandemic strain is not “If,†but “when.â€Â To quote Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota: “The pandemic clock is ticking. We just don’t know what time it is.â€
The H5N1 virus has been steadily mutating in recent years (possibly natural mutations, possibly man-made genetic engineering) with H5N1 now spreading in over 50 mammal populations worldwide.
A horrible H5N1 pandemic is inevitable. This is the warning biologists testifying before Congress have been giving for years but Government has done nothing to warn citizens of this inevitable pandemic, and nothing to help citizens get prepared. The facilities for top government officials at Mount Weather and Raven Rock and many other FEMA and military bases are being improved, yet nothing is done for civil defense stockpiling of food or preparing citizens to survive a 50-60% lethal virus.
