Everything You Need to Know About H5N1 Bird Flu
An article with ongoing updates.
Something is happening, and we knew it would.
A recent piece in Bloomberg has finally declared in the mainstream what some of us have been saying for two years now:
Bird flu is a big threat, and we should take it more seriously.
It could be spreading through the wind via aerosolized bird droppings from ducks, which “could explain several of the 67 recent human cases with no known route of exposure.” In other words, you could be exposed to bird flu just by going to a park or being near wild birds, via their droppings. As we head into migration season, that’s not the best news in the world. But it’s also just as likely that H5N1 is showing early signs of airborne transmission. We’re seeing the most flu activity in 15 years, and some of us have even been getting text messages from local pharmacies about the unusually high flu activity in our areas.
Instead of investigating, the current administration has twisted the previous one’s apathy and neglect into a more malicious, intentional campaign to suppress information about the virus. As the Trump team suspends regular flu reporting to WHO agencies, they’ve also just gutted the CDC’s ability to track diseases, eliminating the Epidemic Intelligence Service.
This feels very intentional.