Bird Flu: Canada Buys 500,000 H5N1 Vaccines While USA Scrambles to Rehire Bird Flu Staff That Was 'Accidentally Fired' At The Urgings of Dodgy DOGE Officials.

According to a report in the BMJ online news journal, Canada has bought half a million vaccines designed to prevent H5N1 avian influenza in humans. The Canadian government finds it necessary to vaccinate persons working close to sources of possible infection, such as farm workers, medical staff and veterinarians. Some of the doses are held in store as a contingency while most are distributed for immediate local use. The vaccine is produced by traditional influenza techniques and was approved in Canada on 19 February, when the order was then immediately placed. According to the report, experts fear that Canada is at danger when migratory birds return from their southern winter grounds and are expected to carry new mutations of bird flu virus. Canada has already seen infection, illness and death caused by this type of bird flu virus that can infect cattle, cats or other mammals. Vira are constantly mutating and once the bird flu has broken the barrier to mammals, it is getting close to infecting humans, which has already occurred, as mentioned.

Five years after the first patients in Europe were diagnosed with Covid-19, scientists are worried about if the World is prepared for the next similar pandemic. Last time, the president of USA was also called Trump and the response was clumsy and non-existent in the beginning.

Electron microscopic image of Avian Influenza A H5N1 virus particles (seen in gold). CDC/ Courtesy of Cynthia Goldsmith; Jacqueline Katz; Sherif R. Zaki. Public domain

Because of the many cuts in scientific research grants and government health supervision, the next global pandemic is likely to spread from the United States. The mutations stem from anywhere but highly dependent on favorable conditions, such as negligent management of the risks of mixing different animals in limited space like on farms. Ignorant politicians and politicized health services fuel a fire in the undergrowth that can break out in open flames any time soon. Unless the current administration is cut short in its term, there is a near 100% likelihood that the pandemic will break out an get out of control during the term of this administration. The rest of the World must prepare measures to rein in the contagion and all the appropriate counter measures.

Preparation for the next pandemic: challenges in strengthening surveillance

For the preparation for future epidemics and pandemics, vaccine development is important in the prevention of infection, transmission, and reduction in the severity of disease in case of infection, such as in the case of influenza and COVID-19. Moreover, adequate supply of oxygen, drugs for symptom control (antipyretics) and immunomodulation (steroid) could also play an important role. Vaccines, especially those with mucosal protection, may halt further transmission of the pathogen when given during outbreaks, Therefore, versatile vaccine platforms and sufficient vaccine production facilities which have the surge capacity to produce timely amounts of vaccines or replenish stockpiles may be crucial to control the spread of potential emerging pandemics.

Another scientific article, from 2022, examines the botched response by the then Trump administration and indirectly issues some strong warnings about what might happen next time, which is what Trump-2 will respond or not respond with:

The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency

Parker CF, Stern EK. Public Adm. 2022 Mar 29:10.1111/padm.12843. doi: 10.1111/padm.12843. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35601345; PMCID: PMC9115435.

Once China informed the world of a disease outbreak on December 31, 2019, the Trump Administration’s response was marked by downplaying the threat, inaction or partial measures, confusion, and inaccurate public statements. As a result, opportunities to slow the spread by facilitating a vigorous public health response of containment and suppression based on testing, contact tracing, and isolation were missed following the confirmation of the first US case on January 21, 2020. After banning foreign nationals from entering the US, if they had been in China in the prior 2 weeks, on January 31, an apparently overconfident Trump Administration was blindsided by the rapid community outbreak of COVID‐19, necessitating a declaration of a national emergency on March 13, 2020. At that time, the federal government remained unable to help states carry out widespread testing—despite Trump’s false claims that anyone who wanted a test could get one—and had not addressed the expected massive shortfalls of personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators.

A week ago, the US Department of Agriculture implicitly announced that the non-agency, non-Musk led DOGE had fired much needed bird flu experts, and the the agency was bravely fighting to find them and rehire them.

CBS News:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it is trying to rehire bird flu experts that the agency accidentally fired as part of its efforts to cut costs based on recommendations from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

Given the track record or lack of the same, we can expect that other agencies are in similar situations, or even worse. Vaccines are actively suppressed by both Trump and his Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who recently ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to halt its “Wild to Mild” campaign promoting the flu vaccine. Kennedy wants future vaccine communications to focus on “informed consent,” by which he means giving people information about the adverse events associated with vaccines. 

That’s a distorted view, that deliberately aims at creating broader confusion about informed consent and the goals of public health. True informed consent requires an sophisticated approach to how risk information is processed, especially because vaccination is a collective benefit that goes even beyond national responsibilities. USA may become a risk factor to the global community when pursuing this approach.

Source- hanschristensen.substack.com