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IS BIRD FLU BEING WEAPONIZED?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

As countries order millions of bird flu vaccines, Jefferey Jaxen investigates the unfolding media excitement surrounding the Bird Flu. He dives deep and reveals that the trajectory of H5N1 outbreaks since 1997 have run parallel with gain-of-function research. Now, scientists around the world continue the call for a pause on this research before another pandemic arises.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We reported last week out of Mexico it was the first fatal case of a subtype. It was H5N2.

0:08.0

This was the avian, highly pathogenic avian bird flu. And the WHO put out its own press release on its own

0:15.0

website and we broke this down and they showed they they broke down the first

0:18.6

case here in Mexico and they they were bringing it that, showing it,

0:22.6

and they tested this individual four times up the chain of our PCR tests.

0:27.8

They're really looking hard to see if they can find this,

0:30.6

make sure the sample was right.

0:32.8

And they said this person, you know,

0:34.5

that died from this H5N2,

0:37.0

but hold on one second, the CBC comes out

0:40.2

and says this, Mexico says patient died of chronic disease, not H5N2 bird flu.

0:46.4

As we told you, there was a lot of issues with this certain patient.

0:49.1

Says Mexico's health ministry on Friday stress that the 59-old man's death was due to chronic

0:54.1

conditions that led to septic shock it was not attributed to the virus. They say

0:57.9

quote the diseases were long-term and caused conditions that led to to failure of

1:02.4

several organs the ministry said,

1:04.0

citing the findings by a team of experts. The man had chronic kidney disease, diabetes,

1:09.1

and arterial hypertension over the past 14 years according to health officials why did they

1:14.3

look so hard this is the open up question to try to find bird flu in this person

1:19.2

again is this died because of bird flu or with bird flu or what's going on here.

1:25.0

And we're seeing the headlines that are really mirroring, you know, it's bringing

1:30.0

back probably for some people's from trauma,ing the run up to the COVID response.

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