MM Comment: I’m presenting here 3 items for you to consider. Together they address what I call The Bird Flu “Threat” Canard That Won’t Die.
Item #1: The letter below (edited by me for brevity) was published in 2005 addressing the claim – then – that the Avian Flu Virus was “highly contagious” and threatened “potentially all six billion people on earth.” I urge you to read the letter in it’s entirety, HERE.
by David Crowe 1, Torsten Engelbrecht 1
WHO, CDC, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), and Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) claim that H5N1 (avian flu virus) is “highly contagious”. Further, Reinhard Kurth, president of RKI, says that H5N1 “threatens potentially all six billion people on earth”.
We identified four fundamental questions underlying these claims and requested supporting studies from FLI (which according to the German Government “possesses virus isolates of H5N1”):
1. Does H5N1 exist?
2.Is it pathogenic to animals?
3.Is it transmissible and pathogenic to humans, and does it have pandemic potential?
4.Have other causes for observed disease been studied?
FLI responded with four papers: PNAS [1], Science [2], J Virol [3] directed towards questions 1 and 2; EID [4] towards question 3; PNAS [1] towards question 4.
Question 1 (existence). FLI responded with, “H5N1/asia virus can be produced completely in vitro by using reverse genetics. The virus generated this way, also called infectious clone, cannot contain contaminants from sick animals” [translated from German].
Question 2 (animal pathogenicity). Papers describe the use of natural routes, but disease was only achieved with extraordinary concentrations, up to 10 million EID per animal. None of the experiments used controls or blinding.
Question 3 (human pathogenicity and pandemic potential). The EID paper is an anecdotal report of a 6-year-old boy from Thailand with severe multi-organ disease. No evidence was given for transmissibility to humans.
Regardless, warnings of an “explosive pandemic” appeared in this early document, though FLI conceded: “There is no scientific forecasting method that can evaluate the possibility that an influenza virus induces a new pandemic.”
Question 4 (non-“H5N1” causation). Neither…references consider reasonable, competing theories for disease causation, e.g., environmental and pharmaceutical factors.
Our analysis shows the papers do not satisfy our four basic questions. Claims of H5N1 pathogenicity and pandemic potential need to be challenged further.
MM Comment: Item #2:
Please read this January 7, 2025 update from Christine Massey:
MM Comment: Item #3:
Please watch this excellent video by Dr. Sam Bailey, Taking Away Your Chickens
