WHO Says Bird Flu May Jump To Humans
The World Health Organisation says reports of bird flu in mink, otters and sealions “need to be monitored closely” and we must prepare for a change in the risk level to humans
H5N1 influenza – commonly known as bird flu – has cropped up in mammals around the world, from grizzly bears to dolphins and domestic cats.
WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing that the recent reports of infections in mink, otters and sealions “need to be monitored closely”.
He said the risk to humans remained low, noting that human cases have been rare since the flu strain emerged in 1996.
“But we cannot assume that will remain the case and we must prepare for any change in the status quo,” Dr Tedros said.
The current outbreak started in October 2021, sweeping through poultry farms and wild birds. The virus is highly infectious and causes rapid illness and death in birds.
Whole flocks have to be culled to try to curb the spread, with the number of dead birds now in the millions.
Since the outbreak started there have been five cases of H5N1 in humans worldwide, including one in the UK and one death in China.
In the last 20 years, there have been 868 cases and 457 deaths, according to the WHO.
In October last year, mink started dying of bird flu at a farm in Spain.
They weren’t the first mammals to contract the virus, but the cases differed this time as it appeared to be spreading between the animals, from pen to pen.
In most instances where mammals become ill – including the otters and foxes in the UK – it’s likely because they ate infected dead wild birds or their droppings.
Dr Tedros said people were advised not to touch dead or sick wild animals and to instead report them to local and national authorities, who were monitoring the situation.
The WHO also called on countries to strengthen surveillance in settings where humans and animals interact.
“WHO is also continuing to engage with manufacturers to make sure that, if needed, supplies of vaccines and antivirals would be available for global use,” he said.
See more here sky.com
Bold emphasis added
Header image: New Scientist
Editor’s note: this new revelation comes as climate alarmists ramp up their efforts to stop us eating meat and dairy products, and the World Economic Forum claims eggs are more dangerous than cocaine or heroin. Coincidence?
Please Donate Below To Support Our Ongoing Work To Defend The Scientific Method
PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, legally registered in the UK as a company 
incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX.
Trackback from your site.
Tom
| #
What a pile of crappola. I wouldn’t trust WHO to EVER tell the truth about ANYTHING. Case closed.
Reply
cn
| #
NEVER EVER BELIEVE A SINGLE WORD FROM THE WHO OR CDC . They lie 100% of the time.
All Flu shots now have mRNA in them so they are just as deadly as the covid jab’s.
Video: The Plan. WHO Plans to Have 10 Years of Pandemics (2020-2030). “Proof that the Pandemic was Planned with a Purpose”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-the-plan-who-plans-to-have-10-years-of-pandemics-2020-2030-proof-that-the-pandemic-was-planned-with-a-purpose/5782105
Reply
Val
| #
The WHO is a psychopathic, deceptive, destructively manipulative organization which deserves to be shut down.
Reply
Val
| #
Warning: WHO Names Transhumanist Dr. Jeremy Farrar As Chief Scientist For Global Health
https://wildsage.us/index.php/2023/02/10/warning-who-names-transhumanist-dr-jeremy-farrar-as-chief-scientist-for-global-health/
Reply
NecktopPC
| #
There is no BIRD FLU.
They have most likely WEAPONIZED a strain of INFLUENZA to be more VIRULENT than most – and we know they do stuff like that.
The chickens are being fed foods that promote sterility (hens not laying eggs), others are pumped full of steroids and antibiotics, and its mostly the ones that have reached their usefulness which are culled on the MSM NEWS, and many others die in strange fires.
A GLOBAL FOOD SHORTAGE (for the 99%ers that is) IS BEING PLANNED.
Reply
Typhus
| #
Food Shortage means WAR amongst the targeted 99% …the Hoi Paloi.
Another Globalist method to kill off the population.
The Hoi Paloi need the addresses of all Globalists involved.
Reply
Auntie Vaxina
| #
Big Pharma has been working on gain of function for how many years???
Reply
Herb Rose
| #
I was told by someone who usually had accurate information that all flus originated in birds then move to other species. That would mean that this is to be expected. Mad cow disease originated in sheep then moved to cattle when they were fed products containing sheep brains then moved to humans when they ate cow nerve tissue.
Reply
Squidly
| #
They have been making this claim since I was a kid, and I am 60 years old. Yawn!
Reply
STJOHNOFGRAFTON
| #
Wishful thinking from the WHO.
Reply
chris
| #
this is the last step in the war against chickens, humans and EGGS, which were known since 2020 to be able to help healing covid19, in regard to high choline content..
Reply
VOWG
| #
Have the morons at the WHO all had lobotomies?
Reply
Allan Shelton
| #
Yes.
But one of them said that “he would rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy” ;^D
Reply
Typhus
| #
They’ve been turned into Golem.
Look for the mass murderers of history…hiding behind the curtain.
Reply