Mystery US Bird-killing Plague Has Got A Lot Worse
Large numbers of birds are dropping dead from a “mystery disease” throughout much of the eastern half of the country, and scientists still have absolutely no idea why this is happening. They have tested the dead birds for a whole host of known illnesses, but those tests have not revealed the cause of this plague.
We are being told that a lot of the affected birds appear to develop neurological problems, and many of them go completely blind before they finally die. The “mystery disease” has spread to more states since I first wrote about this plague, and at this point the list of affected areas includes Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. If authorities are unable to find a solution, will this plague eventually spread across the entire nation?
I don’t know why the mainstream media is not giving this story more coverage, because this is quickly turning into a major crisis.
The following comes directly from a statement that was posted late last week on the official website of the USGS…
In late May, wildlife managers in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky began receiving reports of sick and dying birds with eye swelling and crusty discharge, as well as neurological signs. More recently, additional reports have been received from Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. While the majority of affected birds are reported to be fledgling common grackles, blue jays, European starlings and American robins, other species of songbirds have been reported as well. No definitive cause(s) of illness or death have been determined at this time. No human health or domestic livestock and poultry issues have been reported.
The natural resource management agencies in the affected states and the District of Columbia, along with the National Park Service, are continuing to work with diagnostic laboratories to investigate the cause(s) of this event. Those laboratories include the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, the University of Georgia Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, the University of Pennsylvania Wildlife Futures Program and the Indiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory.
With each passing day, more birds are going blind and more birds are dying.
In Virginia, an animal control professional named Jennifer Toussaint will never forget the first time that she encountered baby blue jays that had been afflicted by this mysterious illness…
Jennifer Toussaint, chief of animal control in Arlington, Virginia, can’t forget the four baby blue jays. In late May, worried residents had delivered the fledglings to her clinic just outside of Washington, D.C., within just a few hours. Each was plump, indicating “their parents had done a great job caring for them,” Toussaint says. But the birds were lethargic, unable to keep their balance, and blinded by crusty, oozing patches that had grown over their eyes.
Toussaint and her staff soon reached a gloomy diagnosis: the jays were the latest victims of a mysterious deadly disease that had emerged in their area just a few weeks earlier and had already killed countless wild birds. There was no known treatment, so they euthanized the jays. “It was difficult to feel so helpless,” Toussaint recalls.
Experts have never seen anything like this before, and they are in a race to try to find some answers.
Whatever is causing this, it appears to be affecting a wide range of species…
Several species of birds have been affected by the mystery illness, according to the University of Pennsylvania: blue jay, European starling, common grackle, American robin, northern cardinal, house finch, house sparrow, Eastern bluebird, red-bellied woodpecker, Carolina chickadee, and Carolina wren.
And at this point, the “mystery disease” appears to have spread very widely.
For example, in the state of Virginia there have been confirmed reports “in the counties and cities of Alexandria, Arlington, Clarke, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fauquier, Frederick, Loudoun, Manassas, Prince William, Shenandoah, Warren, and Winchester.”
In Indiana, cases have now been identified in 53 different counties.
So if this is something that is spreading from bird to bird, it is spreading very easily and it is spreading very rapidly.
But at this point we don’t know for sure that it is some sort of a disease, because so far all of the tests that have been done haven’t come up with much of anything….
Natural resource management agencies in all of the affected states and D.C. are working with the National Park Service to investigate this event.
So far, several infectious agents have not been detected in any of the birds that have been tested, including Salmonella and Chlamydia, avian influenza, West Nile virus and other flaviviruses, Newcastle disease virus and other paramyxoviruses, herpesviruses and poxviruses, and Trichomonas parasites.
Something other than a disease could potentially be causing this plague.
We just don’t know.
At one point it was being theorized that eating cicadas was causing these birds to become ill, but scientists appear to have ruled this theory out…
But the cicadas appear to be blameless. Birds tend to avoid eating fungus-ridden cicadas, and sick birds have been observed in areas where cicadas were rare. “It does not look like it’s a match,” says Brian Evans, a migratory bird ecologist with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
So many strange things have been happening in 2021.
As I discussed yesterday, right now we are witnessing a horrifying plague of grasshoppers in the western half of the country, and at the same time we have a nightmarish plague of dead birds in the eastern half of the country.
On top of everything else, we are right in the midst of a “megadrought” which may end up becoming the worst in the entire history of our nation.
Many believe that it is just a “coincidence” that so many bad things are happening to us all at once, and perhaps they are correct.
But nobody can deny that our world has gotten a whole lot crazier over the last couple of years, and I expect quite a bit more craziness during the second half of 2021.
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Ken Hughes
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When you see a huge pile of dead birds on the highway, as in the photograph, then, assuming the photo’ is genuine and typical, you can conclude this is NOT an infectious disease. How likely is it that a whole flock of them, infected with some virus, all died suddenly, in the same place at the same time? Disease does not work like that. members of an infected population die at different times and so you would never see this effect from a disease.
Clearly, (to me at any rate), they were killed by some event occurring affecting the whole flock at the same time. This points to instantaneous death from the cause.
How about 5g ?
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dave jr
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Yes, and more specifically ‘beam forming’ technology.
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Steven J. Blue
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I’m not an “Expert,” like all those ‘criminal’ morons who have ‘teaching credentials’ at colleges. I hav been trained by Buckminster Fuller to operate as a “Generalist.’
As a “generalist,” i see the relations everything has to everything else. The ‘places’ where the birds died, and the birds that died there, were killed by the recently installed 5G. Don’t believe me. Do your own research. Go to these places, or look it up. Have they recently installed 5G? You’re not a generalist. You just know narrow info, if anything. What could it be except 5G? Although one of your other commenters did mention ‘contrails’ from airplanes dumping who knows what kinds of “poisons.”
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MattH
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It is called seeing the forest, not mesmerized by a single tree or living in a silo. Also called multiple hypothesis.
Another hypothesis is the birds have been poisoned and dumped on the road. It is an anomaly there are no birds in the gutter and in the photo of an English lane the birds have been manually aligned in a straight line on the right side of the photo.
I note that when people die they do not lie in the middle of the road to do it.
5G? Poisoning? List the possibilities and do an analysis of the options. Science?
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itsme
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yes, that is something i noticed too – all at once – as if they were either targeted, or tested.
I remember someone commenting that the birds were falling where it’s noted 5G has been erected in nearby areas.
The blind ones people are finding – they could of survived the ‘zap’ and wandered to other places and died later.
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jerry Krause
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Hi Ken and ITSME,
Thank you for calling this to my attention. I might have missed it if not for your comments. And while 5g is not my thing, I certainly believe your analysis has significant merit.
Have a good day. Jerry
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SteveT
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The headline photo has nothing to do with blind birds.
The picture shows a number of birds that have flown into the ground. Together. All at the same time. Look at the grouping.
It is a common occurrence.
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Steve
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In fact, the whole article is just scaremongering.
Absolute shocker. Utter rubbish!
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SF
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Cast your eyes to the sky … see those horizon to horizon jet trails at 30,000 feet? What toxic materials are they releasing and which rain down on us? What Black Project is poisoning our land? First the bees… now the birds … when will they come up with the perfect death formulation for humans?
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