I wonder, but since it is in a peer review paper, maybe not.
LINK thread reader has a pdf download for me to read later.
Not sure if this is the one about humans or just the one decimating the US poultry industry, but the claim is that it was a lab leak and gain of function research.
Dr. Peter McCullough: "The current strain of bird flu is a product of gain of function research done in the USDA Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia. So it is a man made problem that, our farms are experiencing right now. It's in the peer reviewed literature, and, I… pic.twitter.com/R4avvTtC7r
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Dr. Peter McCullough:
"The current strain of bird flu is a product of gain of function research done in the USDA Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia. So it is a man made problem that, our farms are experiencing right now. It's in the peer reviewed literature, and, I mean, it's really you know, the next steps in this outbreak is, for people to understand, you know, the ramifications of it personally and how to be prepared." "It's the circulating clade, which is the kind of the original source strain, is clade 2.3.4.4b, and, again, that is a product of what's called serial passage gain of function research done at the USDA Poultry Research Laboratory." "It was assisted, by University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and, Rotterdam University. The gain of function was to get it to spread from chickens into migratory waterfowl or mallard ducks. And so that's how it's spreading across the world now." "It's been spreading for 4 years. It continually reinfects the farms because the mallard ducks fly around, and they land in in ponds on farms and they, easily infect the other animals, on the farm. So it was able to, in a sense, expand the host range even into cattle and to sea mammals." "Now the good news is it's much milder than bird flu of decades ago, and then there's the peer reviewed paper by Nick Hulscher on this. And, you know, and this has not been denied by the USDA Poultry Research Center." "McCullough Foundation attended the bird flu summits in both, University of Arkansas as well as in Washington, DC. So there's no denial of this. Just like COVID 19, the bird flu problem is a man made problem by the US government."...................\
Dr McC has a discussion here and again I am linking it for reading later on my tablet.
journal article here in a vet journal
in an earlier post in an article for duck hunters it noted that most bird flu is mild, but that there is a new strain going around
According to a 16 May, 2024 advisory issued by the World Health Organization: “The goose/Guangdong-lineage of H5N1 avian influenza viruses first emerged in 1996 and has been causing outbreaks in birds since then. Since 2020, a variant of these viruses has led to an unprecedented number of deaths in wild birds and poultry in many countries. First affecting Africa, Asia and Europe, in 2021, the virus spread to North America, and in 2022, to Central and South America. From 2021 to 2022, Europe and North America observed their largest and most extended epidemic of avian influenza with unusual persistence of the virus in wild bird populations. Since 2022, there have been increasing reports of deadly outbreaks among mammals also caused by influenza A (H5)-including influenza A (H5N1)-viruses. There are likely to be more outbreaks that have not been detected or reported. Both land and sea mammals have been affected, including outbreaks in farmed fur animals, seals, sea lions, and detections in other wild and domestic animals such as foxes, bears, otters, raccoons, cats, dogs, cows, goats and others” [1].
