Public Health Seeds Bird Flu Narrative
A person in Texas who “had been in contact with” dairy cattle “that are believed to have been infected with the virus” got conjunctivitis (pink eye) and tested positive for H5N1 avian flu.
That’s the story. Apparently.
More bulletproof scientific journalism.
Let’s go to the Texas Department of State Health Services press release it cites:
The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting a human case of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus in Texas. The case was identified in a person who had direct exposure to dairy cattle presumed to be infected with avian influenza. (all emphasis mine)
So the person had direct exposure to dairy cattle. The cattle is presumed to be infected. How are we confirming infections in cattle and why aren’t we confirming here? So far there’s no evidence that the cattle is infected or that the cattle infected the person.
The patient, who experienced eye inflammation as their only symptom, was tested for flu late last week with confirmatory testing performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the weekend. The patient is being treated with the antiviral drug oseltamivir. The case does not change the risk for the general public, which remains low.
Is it weird that someone with eye inflammation as their only symptom was tested for avian flu via the CDC? Is the CDC actively monitoring for cattle to human transmission? Also, apparently the CDC treats bird flu with Tamiflu (oseltamivir).
According to the CDC, this is the second human case of H5N1 flu in the United States and the first linked to an exposure to cattle. In March, the Texas Animal Health Commission announced the first cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) in dairy cattle in the Texas Panhandle. DSHS is working with TAHC, CDC and other state and federal health agencies to investigate the human and animal cases and understand how the virus is spreading in order to protect livestock and people who work with it.
“The first linked to an exposure to cattle.” Just like that? That’s quite a leap without even confirming whether the cattle were infected. But I guess they need a legitimate threat to monitor and roll out protocols and recommendations…
Avian influenza A(H5N1) is a type of flu virus that usually infects wild birds and can spread to domestic birds and other animals. It occasionally infects people, though it is extremely rare for it to be transmitted from one person to another. Initial testing shows the virus has not changed in a way to make it more likely to spread among humans.
The cattle infections do not present a concern for the commercial milk supply. Dairies are required to destroy or divert milk from any sick cows, plus pasteurization kills avian flu viruses.
How will this impact small farms and raw milk?
DSHS is providing guidance to affected dairies about how to minimize workers’ exposure and how people who work with affected cattle can monitor for flu-like symptoms and get tested. Illnesses in people with H5N1 flu infections have ranged from mild, such as eye infection and upper respiratory symptoms, to severe, such as pneumonia and death.
DSHS has issued a health alert asking health care providers around affected dairies to be vigilant for possible human cases and is providing testing and treatment recommendations.
So the incident becomes a “story” before the story is confirmed. And the narrative is already a very particular kind of runaway train.
The mind seed planting has begun.
While we’re not allowed the link the acute neuroinflammation subsequent to neurotoxin-containing vaccines to autism, despite the overwhelming temporal and biologically plausible links, we’re supposed to simply absorb a link between avian flu and cattle and people. There’s a link because apparently a person developed pink eye after “direct contact” with cattle “presumed to be infected” with avian flu and the person tested positive.
If this was someone who was just vaccinated yesterday and developed symptoms… or even died suddenly… it would be a “there is no evidence” story. A case of “correlation does not equal causation.”
But in the case of “highly pathogenic avian influenza”, the CDC immediately rolled out new recommendations for infection prevention and control, including the use of PPE, testing, antiviral treatment, patient investigation, monitoring of people exposed to animals suspected or confirmed to be infected and antiviral chemoprophylaxis of exposed persons. (aka changing the rules)
Here’s how how it plays out in the mainstream media:
There is a highly contagious pathogen jumping from bird to cow to human. Texas health officials issuing a statewide alert after the first confirmed cases of human infection with bird flu that came from a dairy farm. USDA confirms the Avian influenza virus has infected cattle in Texas and elsewhere after wild birds were found dead on farm there an may have contaminated the feed. So we are on alert.
And here’s us “on alert”…
Consider what will become of our food supply once we start testing. What do we know about these tests?
And, of course, a vaccine.
Congressman Thomas Massie nails it.
And so it begins…
One of Texas’s largest poultry farms will cull nearly 2 million chickens this week after a positive bird flu test, the state Agriculture Commissioner announced Tuesday.
A highly contagious deadly bird flu has been detected at Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch, one of the nation’s top egg producers and the biggest poultry farm in Michigan… The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires entire infected flocks be “depopulated” or killed to prevent the disease from spreading to other birds. https://www.mlive.com/news/2024/04/avian-flu-strikes-michigans-largest-egg-producer.html
And in the UK…
All birdkeepers, regardless of the size of their flock, will be required to officially register their birds under new measures announced by Defra.
The threshold for mandatory registration will be reduced from 50 birds to 1, which means all poultry and captive bird keepers will be legally required to register their birds.
How long before this happens in the US?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-flu-hits-us-dairy-cattle-first-time-what-it-means-for-milk-supply/
"Milk from impacted animals is being diverted or destroyed so that it does not enter the human food supply," agencies said. "In addition, pasteurization has continually proven to inactivate bacteria and viruses, like influenza, in milk. FDA's longstanding position is that unpasteurized, raw milk can harbor dangerous microorganisms that can pose serious health risks to consumers, and FDA is reminding consumers of the risks associated with raw milk consumption in light of the HPAI detections."
Given what we’ve seen before, some people are wondering if this is just another lab leak…
H5N1 bird flu has been detected in Antarctica right next to a US biolab, after the USDA performs risky gain-of-function experiments and develops a vaccine for the same virus. The virus is now “spreading from pole to pole.”
Sound familiar?
Only time will tell. But I wouldn’t trust the experts.
And I’d be on the lookout for unscientific language like suspected, possibly, likely, presumed, apparently, linked to, believed to be, may be, and their favorite, “tested positive”.
I exactly just commented on this on FB & Epoch Times. Do you know how they are testing? PCR. Paaallllleeeeezzzzeeee!!!!
Also birds who survive are IMMUNE!!! It continually weakens the flocks to destroy surviving birds.
This is a great article explaining why birds get sick.
https://brownstone.org/articles/why-are-the-chickens-so-sick/