‘Bird Flu’ a ‘Great Concern’ for the WHO; NYT: Bird Flu Is Infecting More Mammals. What Does That Mean for Us?
Birds that have been put down because of avian influenza.
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The New York Times reported:
Bird Flu Is Infecting More Mammals. What Does That Mean for Us?
April 22, 2024
There has been no stopping H5N1. Avian flu viruses tend to be picky about their hosts, typically sticking to one kind of wild bird. But this one has rapidly infiltrated an astonishingly wide array of birds and animals, from squirrels and skunks to bottlenose dolphins, polar bears and, most recently, dairy cows.
“In my flu career, we have not seen a virus that expands its host range quite like this,” said Troy Sutton, a virologist who studies avian and human influenza viruses at Penn State University. …
A highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 was identified in 1996 in domestic waterfowl in China. The next year, 18 people in Hong Kong became infected with the virus, and six died. The virus then went silent, but it resurfaced in Hong Kong in 2003. Since then, it has caused dozens of outbreaks in poultry and affected more than 800 people who were in close contact with the birds.
All the while, it continued to evolve.
The version of H5N1 currently racing across the world emerged in Europe in 2020 and spread quickly to Africa and Asia. It killed scores of farmed birds, but unlike its predecessors it also spread widely among wild birds and into many other animals. …
Flu viruses are adept at picking up new mutations; when two types of flu virus infect the same animal, they can shuffle their genetic material and generate new versions.
It is unclear exactly how, and how much, the H5N1 virus has changed since it first emerged. One study last year showed that after the virus entered the United States, it quickly mixed with other flu viruses circulating here and morphed into various versions — some mild, others causing severe neurological symptoms. …
Dr. Rosemary Sifford, the department’s chief veterinarian said the staff there were working hard to share information as quickly as they can. “This is considered an emerging disease,” she said. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/health/birdflu-marine-mammals.html
The World Health Organization (WHO) is also raising concerns about humans and what is commonly called ‘bird flu’:
WHO Expresses ‘Great Concern’ Over Potential Human Transmission of Bird Flu
April 19, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised concerns about the potential for avian influenza, known as H5N1, to spread to humans after recent infections were reported in cows and goats in the United States. This development marks a troubling evolution of the virus, which has been circulating among bird populations for years.
Jeremy Farrar, the WHO’s chief scientist, emphasized the gravity of the situation during a press briefing in Geneva on April 18. He noted that H5N1 has expanded its reach to new species, becoming a “global zoonotic animal pandemic.” The primary concern is that the virus could further mutate to facilitate human-to-human transmission, a scenario that would significantly escalate the risk of a global health crisis.
In the United States, the avian flu has recently been detected in cattle across eight states, with South Dakota reporting the latest cases. Additionally, a person in Texas has been confirmed to have contracted the disease. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), genetic analysis of the virus from this patient revealed a mutation that increases the likelihood of animal infections, though similar mutations have not led to widespread human transmission in the past. The CDC reassures that the virus closely resembles strains for which HPAI A(H5N1) candidate vaccines are already available, potentially easing vaccine production if necessary.
Since the virus re-emerged in 2003, 889 human cases have been confirmed, with a concerning fatality rate as 463 of those infected have died. The WHO has documented the high mortality rate associated with these infections, underscoring the critical nature of the threat. https://yournews.com/2024/04/19/2772571/who-expresses-great-concern-over-potential-human-transmission-of-bird/
Michael Snyder has been particularly concerned about this as he wrote:
There Is More To This Current Bird Flu Panic Than Meets The Eye
April 18, 2024
Why are global health officials issuing such ominous warnings about the bird flu? Do they know something that the rest of us do not? H5N1 has been circulating all over the planet for several years now, and it has been the worst outbreak that the world has ever seen. Hundreds of millions of birds are already dead, and now H5N1 has been infecting mammals with alarming regularity. The good news is that so far it has not been a serious threat to humans, but could that soon change? According to the World Health Organization, the possibility that H5N1 could start spreading among humans is an “enormous concern”…
The fact that so many different types of mammals are now being infected is definitely alarming.
But perhaps cows would not be getting infected if we were not literally feeding them chicken crap…
As epidemiologists scramble to figure out how dairy cows throughout the Midwest became infected with a strain of highly pathogenic avian flu — a disease that has decimated hundreds of millions of wild and farmed birds, as well as tens of thousands of mammals across the planet — they’re looking at a standard “recycling” practice employed by thousands of farmers across the country: The feeding of animal waste and parts to livestock raised for human consumption.
“It seems ghoulish, but it is a perfectly legal and common practice for chicken litter — the material that accumulates on the floor of chicken growing facilities — to be fed to cattle,” said Michael Hansen, a senior scientist with Consumers Union.
It is not known if eating chicken crap is why so many cows in so many different states are being infected with H5N1. 04/18/24 https://endoftheamericandream.com/there-is-more-to-this-current-bird-flu-panic-than-meets-the-eye/
One of the reasons that ‘mad cow disease’ came about was because humans fed cows ground up dead cows and sheep. Including infected ones.
Yet, cows naturally will not eat meat. A cow would die before trying to eat a dead cow or sheep.
Yet, because of greed, some figured out that if they ground animals up and mixed it with often sweetened grains, then cows would eat it and get fatter, quicker.
Because of the emergence of mad cow disease, that practice was stopped.
But greed still prevailed as many then switched to using ground up chicken feathers and chicken manure in the feed of cows.
The Bible warns:
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, (1 Timothy 6:10)
Improperly feeding cows that which is against nature is evil.
And there have already been consequences.
Here is something else from Michael Synder:
Authorities at the WHO are warning that the death rate would be “extraordinarily high” if such an outbreak were to occur…
Experts at the WHO said humans face an ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate if the strain were to take hold, currently killing more than half of those infected.
I agree.
The bird flu is very dangerous, and if it starts spreading among humans on a widespread basis a lot of people will die. 04/18/24 https://endoftheamericandream.com/there-is-more-to-this-current-bird-flu-panic-than-meets-the-eye/
Some think so:
And Now… “Bird Flu Pandemic Could be ‘100 Times Worse’ than COVID, Scientists Warn”
April 5, 2024
A bird flu pandemic with the potential to be “100 times worse than COVID” may be on the horizon after a rare human case was discovered in Texas, experts have warned.
The H5N1 avian flu has spread rapidly since a new strain was detected in 2020, affecting wild birds in every state, as well as in commercial poultry and backyard flocks.
But it has now even been detected in mammals, with cattle herds across four states becoming infected, and on Monday, federal health officials announced that a dairy worker in Texas caught the virus.
“This virus [has been] on the top of the pandemic list for many, many years and probably decades,” Dr. Suresh Kuchipudi, a bird flu researcher from Pittsburgh, said at a recent panel discussing the issue, according to the Daily Mail.
Well, biblically we know a worse pandemic than COVID-19 is coming. The avian flu currently is contributing to food price inflation. https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/85872/and-now-bird-flu-pandemic-could-be-100-times-worse-than-covid-scientists.html
Jesus warned:
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. (Matthew 24:6-8)
As I posted over a year ago:
The bird flu looks to be consistent with Jesus’ words. (Thiel B. ‘World’s poultry supply threatened as bird flu spreads’ ‘Will bird flu spark the next pandemic?’. COGwriter, February 19, 2023)
That said, in February, a reader sent me a link to the following yesterday:
REVEALED: US is collaborating with Chinese scientists to make bird flu strains more infectious and deadly as part of $1m project – despite fears similar tests unleashed Covid
February 16, 2024
- Research involves infecting birds with flu viruses to make them more infectious
- The USDA is spending more than $1million to fund the risky experiments …
The research involves infecting ducks and geese with different strains of viruses to make them more infectious, and study the viruses’ potential to ‘jump into mammalian hosts,’ according to research documents.
It is being funded through the US Department of Agriculture and collaborating studies will take place at sites in Georgia, Beijing and Edinburgh in Scotland.
It comes despite similar research being restricted in 2022 and growing concerns that dubious Chinese studies may have started the Covid pandemic. …
The papers show funding for the avian virus research began in April 2021 and it is slated to continue through March 2026.
The USDA told this website the project was applied for in 2019 and approved in 2020.
The specific viruses the researchers will work with include H5NX, H7N9 and H9N2, WCW reported.
A 2023 study described H5NX viruses as ‘highly pathogenic’ with the ability to cause neurological complications in humans. …
The USDA told this website the project was applied for in 2019 and approved in 2020.
The specific viruses the researchers will work with include H5NX, H7N9 and H9N2, WCW reported.
A 2023 study described H5NX viruses as ‘highly pathogenic’ with the ability to cause neurological complications in humans. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13089105/US-Chinese-scientists-bird-flu-strains-infectious-Covid.html
So, nearly two months ago, there was a warning that the USA and China have been working on making new strains of the bird flu. Note that this research has been going on for years. And now, we are seeing more and more concerns about the bird flu. And yes, some scientists may be making the situation worse.
Furthermore, as I have warned for years, something worse than COVID is coming.
Before getting to a prophecy in Revelation that confirms that, in January 2020, we put out the following video:
Biological Warfare and Prophecy
Is biological warfare possible? Was it prophesied? Scientists have long warned that pathogenic organisms like the coronavirus could be weaponized. Furthermore, back in 2017, there were concerns that the biological research facility being constructed in Wuhan, China was risky and that a coronavirus from it could be released. On January 25, 2020, China’s President Xi Jinping publicly stated that the situation with the Wuhan-related strain of the coronavirus was grave. Did Church of God writers like the late evangelist Raymond McNair warn that engineered viruses (the “Doomsday bug”) were consistent with prophecies from Jesus? Did a warning from CCOG leader Bob Thiel warn about risks of genetically-modified (GMO) mosquitoes come to pass? Could human research and/or the consumption of biblically-unclean animals such as bats and snakes be a factor in current outbreaks or coming future pestilences? What about famines? How devastating have pestilences been? How devastating are the prophesied ones going to be? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more.
Here is a link to our video: Biological Warfare and Prophecy.
Yes, there are risks with scientists working on substances that could be biological weapons. And, in the case of COVID, I have long ascribed to the “lab leak” origin, and as of yet, there is no proof that was not the origin.
Now the Bible in the Book of Revelation warns:
7 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.” 8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. (Revelation 6:7-8)
The “beasts of the earth” include disease epidemics. Notice also the death rate. This will be many, many times worse than COVID.
Related to the 4th horseman’s ride, we put out the following video:
Biological Weapons and the 4th Horseman of the Apocalypse
Tucker Carlson interviewed Democratic presidential party candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK). During that interview, RFK asserted that the United States has had thousands of scientists working on making bioweapons. Officially, the USA has denied this as it is a party to the Biological Weapons Convention. RFK states that Anthoy Fauci was responsible for biological weapons development. Does the ‘Global South’ consider that the West may intend to exterminate people through biological warfare? Did Jesus prophesy pestilences? Have humans engaged in biological or germ warfare for millennia? What were some things that Raymond McNair warned about over 50 years ago? Can we trust scientists to totally, safely control all the infectious agents they work with? Could humankind be developing, knowingly or unknowingly, biological agents that could be responsible for many of the deaths that are prophesied to occur with the ride of the ‘pale horse of death,’ which is the fourth of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse to ride? Steve Dupuie and Dr. Thiel address these matters.
Here is a link to our video: Biological Weapons and the 4th Horseman of the Apocalypse.
Biological pathogens developed by humans directly in a lab or indirectly in the food supply are a real threat.
Related to the bird flu, here is a video we just produced:
Bird Flu and 4th Horseman’s Ride
The World Health Organization (WHO) is greatly concerned that the avian flu (H5N1) is passing to cows and goats and then to humans. Have farmers done anything, like feeding chicken manure, to cows that might have affected them? Were unnatural feedings of ground up animals to cows (which are vegetarians) the cause of ‘mad cow disease’? Does the avian flu have an exceedingly high mortality rate for humans? Have any scientists suggested bird flu could be 100 times worse than COVID? Are the USA and China working on making bird flu more infectious? If so, why? Can scientists control all that can happen with biological experiments? Did Jesus warn about pestilences? Could scientists, farmers, corporations, governments, or just regular consumers cause diseases like will happen during the ride of the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse? Dr. Thiel and Steve Dupuie address these topics.
Here is a link to the video: Bird Flu and 4th Horseman’s Ride.
Do NOT trust the scientists who say that they are simply trying to help us fight them and can always control them–they DO NOT KNOW all the risks, no matter what they say.
Humans, directly or indirectly, will be a factor in the coming more severe pestilences.
Let me also add, that the ride of the 4th horseman begins after the opening of the fourth seal, and that is followed by the opening of the fifth seal, which is the start of the Great Tribulation.
Yes, some variation of the bird flu could be tied to the opening of the fourth seal of Revelation and the ride of the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse.
Some items of possibly related interest may include:
Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse What is the pale horse of death and pestilences? What will it bring and when? Here is a link to a related sermon:
Fourth Horseman, COVID, and the Rise of the Beast of Revelation. Here is a version of that sermon in Spanish: El Cuarto Caballo, El COVID y El Surgimiento de la Bestia del Apocalipsis. Some shorter related videos may include Amphibian Apocalypse: Threat to Humans? and Zombie Deer Disease is Here! Are the 10 Plagues on Egypt Coming? Here is a version of the article in Spanish: El cuarto jinete de Apocalipsis, el caballo pálido de muerte y pestilencia.
The Gospel of the Kingdom of God This free online pdf booklet has answers many questions people have about the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and explains why it is the solution to the issues the world is facing. It is available in hundreds of languages at ccog.org. Here are links to four kingdom-related sermons: The Fantastic Gospel of the Kingdom of God!, The World’s False Gospel, The Gospel of the Kingdom: From the New and Old Testaments, and The Kingdom of God is the Solution.
GMOs and Bible Prophecy What are GMOs? Since they were not in the food supply until 1994, how could they possibly relate to Bible prophecy? Do GMOs put the USA and others at risk? Here are some related videos: GMO Risks and the Bible and GMOs, Lab meat, Hydrogenation: Safe or Dangerous?
Chimeras: Has Science Crossed the Line? What are chimeras? Has science crossed the line? Does the Bible give any clues? A video of related interest is Half human, half pig: What’s the difference? and Human-Monkey Embryos and Death.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse What do each of the four horseman of the Apocalypse represent? Have they began their ride? Did Jesus discuss the any of this? Might their rides coincide with the “beginning of sorrows? Do they start their ride prior to the Great Tribulation? Did Nostradamus or any other ‘private prophets’ write predictions that may mislead people so that they may not understand the truth of one or more of the four horseman? There is also a related YouTube video titled Sorrows and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Here is a link to a shorter video: These Signs of the 4 Horsemen Have Begun.
When Will the Great Tribulation Begin? 2024, 2025, or 2026? Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before the Great Tribulation in the “beginning of sorrows”? What happens in the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord? Is this the time of the Gentiles? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord? Who are the 144,000? Here is a version of the article in the Spanish language: ¿Puede la Gran Tribulación comenzar en el 2020 o 2021? ¿Es el Tiempo de los Gentiles? A related video is: Great Tribulation: 2026 or 2027? A shorter video is: Tribulation in 2024? Here is a video in the Spanish language: Es El 2021 el año de La Gran Tribulación o el Grande Reseteo Financiero.
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