France is vaccinating millions of farmed ducks against bird flu. The US has banned imports of French poultry as a result, yet is testing bird flu shots of its own - for poultry and for people.
17 OKT
2023
STORY
AT-A-GLANCE
- France
plans to vaccinate 64 million ducks across 2,700 farms against bird flu,
at a cost of $105 million
- The
vaccination campaign, which is mandatory for farms with more than 250
ducks or those raising ducks for meat or foie gras, was launched in
response to the country’s repeated outbreaks of bird flu since 2020
- Birds
vaccinated for bird flu may not show signs of illness but could still
transmit the virus, causing further circulation of the disease
- As a
result, the U.S. restricted the importation of poultry from France, as
well as live ducks, duck eggs and untreated duck products from the
European Union, Iceland, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Norway
- Bird
flu is being painted as the next big pandemic, and the U.S. is testing
avian flu vaccines for use in poultry and people
France plans
to vaccinate 64 million ducks across 2,700 farms against bird flu. The
vaccination campaign, which is mandatory for French farms with more than 250
ducks or those raising ducks for meat or foie gras, was launched in response to
the country’s repeated outbreaks of bird flu since 2020.
If even a
single case of the disease is found, an entire farmed population may be culled.
Hundreds of millions of birds have already been killed as a result in the last
two years.
Officials
have also turned up the fear-mongering, suggesting avian influenza could
mutate, infect humans and turn into the next pandemic.
The shots are
estimated to cost $105 million, 85% of which will be paid by France
— and that’s without
factoring in the economic losses from import restrictions.
US Restricts
French Poultry Imports
Due to the
use of bird flu vaccines, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced it restricted the importation of
poultry from France, as well as live ducks, duck eggs and untreated duck
products from the European Union, Iceland, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and
Norway.
According to APHIS:
“These restrictions are due to increased risk of introducing Highly
Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) into the United States … The restrictions …
the result of France’s decision to vaccinate commercial meat ducks against
HPAI. France’s decision to vaccinate presents a risk of introducing HPAI into
the United States.
The United States does not currently allow the import of poultry from
countries affected with HPAI or from flocks that have been vaccinated by HPAI.
Vaccination of poultry against HPAI virus may mask HPAI virus circulating in
poultry. Vaccinated birds may not show signs of HPAI infection, which could
lead to the export of infected live animals or virus-contaminated products to
the United States.”
Japan’s
Agriculture Ministry also announced plans to suspend imports of poultry
products from France due to the vaccination campaign.
It’s interesting to
note that, compared with chickens, ducks are typically resistant to avian
influenza virus and don’t show symptoms.
Duck and foie
gras trade group CIFOG was in favor of the shots nonetheless, stating, “This
vaccination plan ... is a world-first: its goal is to protect all farmed birds
and should put an end to the preventive slaughter of animals, which no one
wants to live with anymore.”
Yet, others weren’t
receptive to the idea. One farmer told French news outlet AFP that her clients
were "calling to tell me they don't want meat from vaccinated ducks."
USDA Is
Testing Bird Flu Vaccines
Most
countries have been hesitant to vaccinate poultry against bird flu because it
can hide symptoms of the illness, allowing the virus to circulate further.
But the U.S., despite
restricting imports of vaccinated poultry from France, has already begun avian
influenza vaccination trials. In an April 2023 news release, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture stated:
“ARS [Agricultural Research Service] researchers are currently testing
several vaccine candidates … Should the trials be successful, and should USDA elect
to continue development, the next step is identifying manufacturers interested
in vaccine production. Once one or more manufacturers are identified, there are
20 discrete stages to complete before vaccine delivery.
These stages begin with feasibility work by the manufacturer and
culminates with product label submission and review. General timeframes are
2.5-3 years; however, in emergency situations manufacturers may expedite
development, resulting in a shortened timeframe to licensure.
From vaccine development to production timelines, to dissemination to
flocks, there are many factors that make implementing a vaccine strategy a
challenge and it would take time to deliver an effective vaccine.
In a best case scenario, USDA estimates an 18-24 month timeline before
having a vaccine that matches the currently circulating virus strain, is
available in commercial quantities, and can be easily administered to
commercial poultry.”
Further, back
in 2015, the USDA granted a conditional license to Harrisvaccines for its RNA
avian influenza vaccine against HPAI.
Is Bird Flu
Being Weaponized?
Nearly 15
years ago, I wrote my New York Times best-selling book "The Great Bird Flu Hoax." President George Bush spent over $7 billion
and warned that more than 2 million Americans could die.
But no one in the
U.S. died from bird flu, which was a fraud. Yet, here we are today, with
governments still warning that bird flu could be the next big pandemic in
humans.
Historically,
natural avian influenza (H5N1) hasn’t posed a threat to mankind, but then
scientists started tinkering with it, creating a hybrid with human pandemic
potential.
Some of that research
has been undertaken in Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine.
Bill Gates
and Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institutes of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have also funded gain-of-function research on
H5N1.
One scientist whose
work on H5N1 has been funded by both Fauci and Gates is Yoshihiro Kawaoka,
Ph.D.
In one
experiment, Kawaoka mixed bird flu virus with the Spanish flu virus, resulting
in a highly lethal respiratory virus with human transmission capability.
Kawaoka has also played around with mixtures of H5N1 and the 2009 H1N1 (swine
flu) virus, creating an airborne hybrid capable of evading the human immune
system, effectively rendering humans defenseless against it.
Further, in a
March 30, 2022, CenterPoint interview, former director for the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, more than hinted at the
possibility of a coming bird flu pandemic, stating, "I believe the great
pandemic is still in the future, and that's going to be a bird flu pandemic for
man. It's going to have significant mortality in the 10% to 50% range. It's
gonna be trouble."
Meanwhile,
bird flu is also affecting mammals at a rate not previously seen, including
skunks, bears, seals, foxes, minks and even dolphins.
Gavi, which was
founded by the Gates Foundation in partnership with WHO, is using this as
propaganda for why “bird flu vaccines need urgent R&D.”
According to Gavi:
“In general, bird flu doesn’t infect people easily — the virus binds to
receptors in the upper airways of birds that are not as common in mammalian
upper airways, which means it is much harder for infected mammals to spread it.
Those affected tend to have been in close contact with the animals, such as
farm workers, and it doesn’t easily spread between people.
However, the fact that the current global H5N1 bird flu outbreak has
caused such large die-offs and has started to spread in small mammals means
that some scientists are concerned that the virus could evolve to spread more
easily among human beings, potentially triggering another pandemic.”
Given the
increasing rhetoric from globalists that a bird flu pandemic is coming, if we
do end up with a lethal human bird flu, there's every reason to suspect it was
manmade. There's also every reason to suspect a bird flu vaccine will be either
ineffective, hazardous or both.
Bird Flu
Shots in the Works for People ‘Just in Case’
Even though
“bird flu doesn’t infect people easily,”
and human cases are
“very rare”
with low risk of
transmission, three vaccine manufacturers — GSK, Moderna and CSL Seqirus — are
developing or ready to test bird flu shots in people. A fourth company, Sanofi,
said they have existing bird flu vaccine strains and “stand ready” to ramp up
production.
The Coalition
for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which was founded in 2017 by the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Economic Forum and Wellcome, among
others, is already setting the stage for a rush on bird flu shots. “We could
potentially have a much worse problem with vaccine hoarding and vaccine
nationalism in a flu outbreak than we saw with COVID,” Dr. Richard Hatchett,
CEPI’s chief executive, told Reuters.
Why should
you be wary of CEPI’s warning? As The Highwire reported, “CEPI is a global
syndicate of public-private organizations whose mission is to highlight
pandemic threats, continuously prepare for the next “Disease X,” and advance
vaccines.”
Moderna
already launched trials of an mRNA pandemic flu shot targeting avian influenza
and also said it could produce such vaccines “very quickly” if an outbreak
occurs.
What Would
Work to Stop Bird Flu?
The World
Health Organization has blamed avian flu outbreaks on wild birds, not those
raised on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
Richard Webby,
director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Studies on
the Ecology of Influenza in Animals, told NPR in 2022:
“We don't know exactly what it is about it, but it does seem just to be
able to grow and transmit better in wild birds. Wild birds are the perfect
mechanism to spread a virus because they, of course, fly everywhere.”
It does seem
strange to describe wild birds as the “perfect mechanism to spread a virus”
without also pointing out that quick viral spread is virtually guaranteed on
every CAFO, where birds are literally on top of each other. Yet, admitting this
would necessitate sweeping changes to an industry that depends on raising large
numbers of animals in close quarters.
"The
USDA and the industry desperately want to blame wild birds, backyard flocks and
dirty shoes rather than looking in the mirror and realizing this is nature's
way of screaming 'Enough!,'" Joel Salatin, owner of Polyface farm and a
pioneer in sustainable agriculture, writes.
The solution to
stopping avian flu in poultry doesn’t lie with vaccines and pharmaceuticals, it
lies with ingenuity and a return to tradition, including smaller flocks.
Salatin explains:
“If our current ag policy is insane, what is a better alternative? My
first suggestion is to save the survivors and begin breeding them. That’s a
no-brainer. If a flock gets HPAI, let it run its course. It’ll kill the ones
it’ll kill but in a few days the survivors will be obvious.
Keep those and put them in a breeding program. The beautiful thing about
chickens is that they mature and propagate fast enough so that in a year you
can move forward two generations. That’s relatively fast. Let survival
determine tomorrow’s genetic pool.”
The next step
involves raising poultry in optimal flock sizes, which, according to Salatin,
is about 1,000 chickens or fewer. “An elderly poultry industry scientist
visited our farm once and told me that if houses would break up chickens into
1,000-bird groups it would virtually eliminate diseases,” he says.
Finally,
respecting nature is an essential part of the process, which means letting
animals live the way they were meant to — outdoors, in fresh air and sunlight.
As Salatin puts it, you’ve got to “treat the chickens like chickens” if you
want them to be healthy and disease-free:
“In addition to proper flock size, give them fresh pasture in which to
run and scratch. Not dirt yards. Not little aprons around a CAFO. With mobile
shelter, on our farm we move the flocks every day or so to fresh pasture. That
keeps them on new ground that’s been host free for an extended period of rest.
They don’t sleep, eat, and live every moment of every day on their toilet.”
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