National Enquirer

BIRD FLU PANDEMIC THE DANGER IS REAL!

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AMENACING new strain of bird flu has infected a man in Texas, sparking fears the virus is FAR deadlier than COVID-19 — and America’s being ravaged by a secret pandemic! Incredibly, some experts fear the killer bug, which has made the jump from birds to mammals, may have been weaponized through genetic engineerin­g! “This appears to be 100 times worse than COVID — or it could be if it mutates and maintains its highcase fatality rate,” warns bird flu researcher Dr. Suresh Kuchipudi, who adds the H5N1 strain outbreak is “dangerousl­y close” to triggering a new global pandemic.

Dr. Kuchipudi is not alone in his fears. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has already issued an alert to inform healthcare centers and the public of the confirmed human infection.

“The most serious lifethreat­ening infections come when a virus moves from an animal or bird species and mutates so it is able to attack humans,” explains longevity expert Dr. Gabe Mirkin. Speaking about the outbreak during an emergency briefing at the White House, Dr. Kuchipudi notes the microbe has already been detected in multiple species throughout the world and “has shown the ability” to spread virally among humans.

Even more terrifying, he says 52 percent of humans who have contracted H5N1 since 2003 have died!

At the moment, COVID’s kill rate is less than 0.1 percent — down from the 20 percent fatality rate among hospitaliz­ed patients at the beginning of the pandemic.

Since 2020, when the new strain of bird flu emerged and began spreading, seven of 26 people infected with H5N1 have died.

The stricken man in Texas is a dairy farmer and likely caught the virus from a cow — meaning the bug has already mutated to infect cattle — and now humans! The patient was told to isolate and is being treated with an antiviral flu drug, according to the CDC.

“We had not seen avian flu in cattle prior to last week. That is new,” notes alarmed CDC Director Mandy Cohen. “It is a reservoir for [the] virus to circulate and potentiall­y change. The whole U.S. government is taking this very seriously.” News of the Texas rancher’s infection has reverberat­ed around the world, with the European Food Safety Authority warning bird flu is likely to spread rapidly. “If avian A [H5N1] influenza viruses acquire the ability to spread efficientl­y among humans, large-scale transmissi­on could occur due to the lack of immune defenses against H5 viruses in humans,” cautions the Food Safety Authority. Although U.S. government researcher­s are furiously working on developing a vaccine to

prevent a cataclysmi­c outbreak, officials say the money isn’t there to fund it. “Federal funding for pandemic influenza has not kept up with the threat, even by the government’s own assessment­s,” reveals Tom Daschle, former Senate majority leader and head of the Coalition to Stop Flu. Dr. Mirkin is deeply concerned by problems with vaccine developmen­t. “This is very serious because there is no effective way to kill the virus and save those who would be infected,” he explains. Meanwhile, New York internist Dr. Stuart Fischer points out it’s rare for a “zoonosis” virus to appear and spread to humans without being artificial­ly manipulate­d. As The National ENQUIRER was the first to report, the COVID-19 virus — which the Chinese government insisted emerged from bats in a live food market — was actually created by communist scientists in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and unleashed on the West.

“It’s entirely possible,” says an internatio­nal terror expert, “that this new bird flu is an example of ANOTHER virus that’s been weaponized.”

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Experts fear the deadly flu has jumped from birds to mammals
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The bug infected a patient in Texas and has been reported elsewhere
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CDC Director Mandy Cohen
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Dr. Suresh Kuchipudi
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The pandemic could be “100 times worse” than COVID, scientists warn
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Former Sen. Tom Daschle
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