Well, folks, as you know, this is 2024, a presidential election year, and you know what that means. It’s time to roll out some sort of major disaster in order to enable the left to be justified in either canceling the election altogether or calling for mail-in ballots just like in 2020 when somehow, but a cruel twist of fate, Joe Biden beat former President Donald Trump to take the White House.
Instead of COVID-19 coming back for a sequel, it looks like the new virus of choice is the bird flu. And brother, let me tell you, there’s some real funny business going on with this one.
For example, as The End of the American Dream rightly points out, the medical experts out there who are supposed to be dealing with this kind first told us that humans aren’t at risk with this this bird flu. However, the World Health Organization is now suddenly saying there is “enormous concern” about the H5N1 virus beginning to spread among the human population. Another strange bit of information we were given by the “experts” was that when dairy cows started to get infected with the virus, measures were being taken to ensure their milk was being kept out the supply. Thus, American consumers continued to buy cheese and milk as usual.
However, two different rounds of testing have now confirmed that there has been a large quantity milk from infected dairy cows that has gotten into the supply chain.
In fact, on Thursday an update that was posted on the official FDA website openly admitted that approximately one out of every five samples of grocery store milk that they tested had “viral fragments” in them…
Today, the FDA received some initial results from its nationally representative commercial milk sampling study. The agency continues to analyze this information; however, the initial results show about 1 in 5 of the retail samples tested are quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)-positive for HPAI viral fragments, with a greater proportion of positive results coming from milk in areas with infected herds.
However, the FDA is not the only organization out there that is doing this kind of testing. Over at Ohio State University, a veterinary epidemiologist conducted a test of “150 commercial milk products from around the Midwest,” where he discovered viral material in over a third of them:
Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and thought that at least some virus was getting off of farms and going downstream — onto store shelves.
He knew the Food and Drug Administration was working on its own national survey of the milk supply. But he was impatient. So he and a graduate student went on a road trip: They collected 150 commercial milk products from around the Midwest, representing dairy processing plants in 10 different states, including some where herds have tested positive for H5N1. Genetic testing found viral RNA in 58 samples, he told STAT.
In other words, the tests have found that the H5N1 virus is way more widespread among dairy cows than we were initially told by medical professionals. The EOTAD report author stated that at first, he was not too worried about all of this because there had only been a few dozen cases of the virus confirmed in herds all over America and that is such a very small amount of the total.
But now, experts are acknowledging that these tests are clearly showing that a large piece of the U.S. dairy cow population has been exposed to bird flu:
“The fact that you can go into a supermarket and 30% to 40% of those samples test positive, that suggests there’s more of the virus around than is currently being recognized,” said Richard Webby, an influenza virologist who has been analyzing the samples at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where he heads the WHO Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals.
There is some good news, thankfully. The FDA has been reporting that, “preliminary results” of the work being done has indicated that the pasteurization process that the milk supply goes through kills off bird flu.
Preliminary results of tests run by the Food and Drug Administration show that pasteurization is working to kill off bird flu in milk, the agency said Friday.
“This additional testing did not detect any live, infectious virus. These results reaffirm our assessment that the commercial milk supply is safe,” the FDA said in a statement.
Of course, no good news is complete without bad news. And in this case, milk that has not undergone the pasteurization process could still be at risk of spreading the virus.
The USDA is now reporting that deaths and neurological diseases have been “widely reported” among cats who have consumed unpasteurized milk taken from dairy cows.
Other animals have also not fared as well during the outbreak: the USDA said Friday that deaths and neurological disease had been “widely reported” in cats around dairy farms. Officials have said they suspect cats had been drinking leftover raw milk from infected cows.
The question we should be asking now, according to the author of the EOTAD article is why we’re just now hearing about all of this? What else aren’t we being told? Is this yet another crisis in the making? Is this information being withheld purposefully in order to once again set the stage for a global pandemic that will provide yet another opportunity for power hungry politicians to make a grab for power?
And more cases of the disease continue to come in, including some in Colorado which has become the ninth state where dairy cows have not tested positive for H5N1.
If this disease should mutate and make the jump from animals to humans, we’re in big trouble. The official WHO website says that over 50 percent of confirmed cases of bird flu in humans since 2003 have ended in death. That’s a whole lot worse than COVID.
There are a number of experts who are totally convinced that over time this highly fatal disease will jump to humans and will spread like wildfire across the United States. If that happens, the you-know-what is going to hit the fan with a vengeance.
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