The H5N1 bird flu is “capable of airborne transmission,” meaning it has a bigger chance now of becoming the next pandemic. A new animal study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has found that bird flu is primarily spread through contact with sick animals.
The study, which was published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, was based on a sample of H5N1 extracted from a dairy worker in Michigan who contracted the virus last year.
Back in February, scientists did a study that also concluded that bird flu could spread though air.
STUDY: Bird Flu “Spreads Through The Air”
According to a report by the Telegraph UK, the CDC scientists then used this sample to infect a group of ferrets, which are considered a “gold standard” in flu research due to the similarity between their respiratory system and that of humans.
The infected animals were placed in close proximity to six other healthy ferrets and observed for three weeks. Within 21 days, three of the previously uninfected ferrets had contracted H5N1 – without any direct physical contact – indicating that the virus can travel through the air through a “respiratory droplet transmission model”.
Even though H5N1 is still believed to spread primarily through direct contact with infected animals or their bodily fluids, the new findings suggest it can also be transmitted through respiratory droplets and aerosols, raising concerns about its ability to cause a future pandemic.
The researchers also collected aerosol samples from the air surrounding the ferrets, and found infectious virus and viral RNA to be present, indicating that H5N1 can, like COVID-19, be transmitted through both respiratory droplets and aerosols – smaller particles that can travel longer distances and remain suspended in the air for extended periods. – Telegraph UK
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After quite a hiatus of fear-mongering from the mainstream media over avian influenza, it now appears that the attempt is to continue to panic the masses once more.
This doesn’t necessarily mean this is for certain the next plandemic. It does seem odd that the propaganda surrounding bird flu ebbs and flows. With COVID, the fear-mongering was constant and biligerent.
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