UK Health Security Agency Primes Public for The Next ‘Pandemic’
The UK government is using its first-ever Health Security Risk Assessment to place pandemic influenza at the center of future health-security messaging, promoting a scenario involving 33.5 million symptomatic infections while elevating bird flu and coronavirus as the dominant pandemic threats facing Britain over the next five years
Published last week by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the assessment is intended to orchestrate planning across government agencies, healthcare systems, schools, universities, businesses, researchers, and public-health institutions.
While the report is presented as a technical assessment of health risks, it also provides a revealing look at the narratives government institutions are choosing to elevate through official messaging.
Among all risks examined in the report, respiratory pandemics occupy the most prominent position. The report comes as the UK claims it is performing lab experiments on bird flu pathogens.
In one experiment, the UK, with China, used gain-of-function to create airborne bird flu viruses capable of infecting humans and other mammals.
In another experiment, the UK engineered two brand-new bird flu viruses with neurological and transmission gains.
In another, the UK created chimeric “Frankenstein” H7N7 bird flu hybrids that could spread asymptomatically.
The new UK assessment comes as the U.S. CDC recently framed avian influenza as a future pandemic threat, with President Donald Trump in April nominating a military-grade influenza pandemic architect to lead the agency.
The U.S. is also performing gain-of-function experiments on bird flu pathogens.
Congress, the White House, the Department of Energy, the FBI, the CIA, and Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) all acknowledged that the deadly COVID-19 pandemic was “likely” the result of a laboratory incident involving engineered pathogens.
The overlap raises an obvious question: why are many of the same government institutions warning about a future bird flu pandemic, building preparedness frameworks around bird flu, and directing public attention toward bird flu, and are also conducting experiments designed to alter bird flu viruses in the laboratory to make them more easily transmissable and dangerous?
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