The UK government is actively considering vaccinating the country’s poultry flock against bird flu in a bid to curb the worst-ever global outbreak of the virus and prevent it turning into a new pandemic in humans.
In what would be a major change of UK policy, government officials and scientists are looking at overturning a ban on vaccinating tens of millions of birds as the H5N1 virus shows no sign of abating, the leading expert in avian influenza said.
In an interview, Professor Ian Brown, who is leading the UK’s fight against bird flu, also revealed his concerns over recent developments in the global outbreak.
These include signs that it could evolve to transmit between mammals; the spread of the virus into Central and South America – which he said puts at risk critically endangered species, including unique birds in the Galapagos Islands and penguins in Antarctica – and a cluster of human cases in Cambodia, which has led to the death of an 11-year-old girl.
Prof Brown, scientific services director at the government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), said recent incidents of mass deaths in seals in the Caspian Sea and sea lions in Peru were disconcerting, and if it showed there was transmission between mammals, it would be “new territory” for the global fight to stop a pandemic in humans.
Last month the EU announced it was overturning its own prohibition on vaccination of poultry against bird flu, leaving member states free to immunise flocks against the virus.
The i was this week the first national newspaper to be given access to the high-secure APHA facility in Surrey, which is at the heart of the UK’s battle against bird flu. During our visit to its labs and fieldwork, an otter which had died from suspected bird flu was brought in for a post mortem – underlining the fast-paced nature of the situation.
A new technical group of experts and senior officials from the UK Health Security Agency, APHA, and academia is reviewing the risk from bird flu to humans on a weekly basis, i can reveal.
The threat is currently at Level 3 – meaning there are changes in the virus genome that could lead to mammal-to-mammal transmission. Evidence of mammal-to-mammal transmission would move the risk up to Level 4.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology also conducted similar influenza study following the lab’s attempts to find direct human infection strains by modifying killer bat coronaviruses. The controversial Wuhan lab experimented on weaponizing influenza strain to infect humans.
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Vegan, high carb, low fat is the natural diet for human beings. We are starch eaters and get enough healthy, unvaccinated proteins without hormones from plants and legumes.
If you’re healthy due to a healthy diet, the pharmaceutical mafia will hate you! 😉
Synthetic mRNA vaccinated chickens, if they live long enough to be killed for human consumption, which remains to be seen – after cooking, go down into the digestive tract of the stomach, which is hydrochloric acid – broken down into the elements of food which the body needs to support it, the rest is ejected from the body in the solid or liquid wastes naturally.
I think it is highly unlikely that the synthetic mRNA components of the mRNA vaccinated chicken would survive cooking or the Hydrochloric Acid bath as the food is broken down into the components required by the body, to feed it, don’t you?