And so it begins...
'High risk' of another pandemic with threat of flu jumping from animals to humans 'a certainty' warns World Health Organization's outbreak preparedness tsarDr Maria Van Kerkhove also admitted Covid 'did not have to be as bad as it was' Quote:Europe must be prepared for the 'high risk' of a flu pandemic, a World Health Organization (WHO) chief sensationally claimed today.
Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, the UN agency's acting director for pandemic preparedness, said it was a 'certainty' the continent would face the threat of influenza.
Quote:She told Health in Europe: 'For me, flu is a certainty because it's so much in circulation. It's infected many different species.
'We have avian influenza and the opportunities for reassortance [genetic changes to a virus that allow it to jump between species], the opportunities for a pandemic of influenza virus are high.
Especially with our useless pollies with their heads perpetually stuck in the sand (or more likely up their @sses) and being more concerned about their precious economies than peoples' lives as Covid has shown.
Related article:
Fresh bird flu pandemic fears as WHO warns outbreak is of 'enormous concern' and would have 'extraordinarily high' death rates Quote:The increasing spread of bird flu to humans is an 'enormous concern', the World Health Organization has warned.
The virus, an extremely deadly H5N1 subtype, has caused devastating declines in bird populations following its emergence in Europe in 2020.
It has since jumped to mammals such as cows, cats, seals and now people, raising the risk of the virus mutating to become more transmissible.
While there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission, scientists have warned it would be significantly more deadly than Covid.
It's not just Europe that needs to be prepared... something like this will spread around the whole world in no time at all like what happened/is still happening with Covid and also with the 'regular' flu every year... see the attached image which I'm sure is self explanatory.
And... I'm still wondering... when will the world's airlines be held accountable and made to pay for their major part in spreading Covid and the flu around the world resulting in millions of deaths and long Covid cases... especially when they whined and complained about border closures, masks, quarantine and other Covid/flu/etc.
protection measures until governments finally caved in to their (and other big business) demands and removed these protections?
I won't be holding my breath waiting for that to happen.
As I've said before... how many people will remember that Australia was Covid (and flu) free for most of 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid
protections I've mentioned above? Almost none would be my guess.