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A goat in Stevens County, Minnesota, has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), becoming the first U.S. detection of HPAI in a domestic ruminant. The goat contracted the virus after a poultry flock on the same premises was depopulated in February due to the virus. Following the confirmation of HPAI in the goat, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health quarantined all other species on the premises. The Board said is working with USDA to investigate the transmission of the virus in this case.
It appears to be just a matter of time before the bird flu starts becoming a significant threat to humans as well.
According to Dr. Chris Walzer, “dozens of mammalian species” have already been infected…
In January, Dr Chris Walzer, the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Executive Director of Health, in a statement, said: “It (H5N1) has infected over 150 wild and domestic avian species around the globe as well as dozens of mammalian species. The bird flu outbreak is the worst globally and also in US history, with hundreds-of-millions of birds dead since it first turned up in domestic waterfowl in China in 1996.”
We better hope that the bird flu does not mutate into a form that can spread very easily among humans.
Because according to the NIH, bird flu can have a death rate of more than 50 percent in humans…
As of November 2022, 240 cases of human avian influenza A (H5N1) virus have been confirmed from the Western Pacific Region since 2003 with a case fatality rate of 56%.
A global bird flu crisis would be far worse than anything that we have experienced during the past several years.
Just try to imagine the panic that would ensue if H5N1 were to start killing millions of people around the world.
Hopefully that will not happen any time soon.
Earlier today, I did come across an article about a 21-year-old student in Vietnam that was just killed by H5N1…
A student in Vietnam has died of H5N1 bird flu, according to the country’s Department of Preventive Medicine.
The 21-year-old man developed symptoms of fever and a cough on March 11. A week later, he presented at Ninh Hoa Medical Center in Vietnam’s eastern Khanh Hoa province, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia and transferred to Khanh Hoa General Hospital.
The student tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza on March 20, and further tests conducted two days later at the Nha Trang Pasteur Institute showed the patient was infected with the H5N1 subtype.
Let us pray that this was just an isolated incident.
Meanwhile, other pestilences continue to spread all over the planet.
For example, dengue fever has become a major problem in Brazil, and now government officials in Puerto Rico have declared a dengue fever epidemic…
On Monday, government leaders in Puerto Rico declared a dengue epidemic after a spike in cases of the mosquito-borne disease hit the island.
From the start of the year through March 10, there were 549 cases, including 341 hospitalizations and 29 severe cases, according to the most recent data provide by the Puerto Rico Department of Health. Cases are concentrated in cities including San Juan, Bayamon, Guaynabo and Carolina.
I have been repeatedly warning my readers that global pestilences would be one of the major themes of the next several years.
Bird flu has already killed hundreds of millions of birds, and now it is spreading in mammals.
A widespread bird flu outbreak among humans would have the potential to be absolutely catastrophic, and so we will want to watch this story very, very closely.
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