Bird Flu Hit's Birds In Israel While Humans fight Delta, Omicron Virus

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                    

Half a million chickens have been slaughtered to contain the outbreak of avian flu in Israel, while some 5,000 migratory cranes have died of the virus in the most serious threat to wildlife Israel has known, says the Agriculture Ministry spokesperson. The culling of their poultry farms has cost Moshav Margaliot in the upper Galilee, Ein Hahoresh, Bar’am and Givat Zeev their main source of livelihood. The markets show a serious shortage of eggs. There is no immediate word of human infection.                                                  

  Pelicans at Israel water reservoir:  Where are their masks?  They're so close !  

Avian influenza refers to the disease caused by infection with avian (bird) influenza (flu) Type A viruses. These viruses occur naturally among wild aquatic birds worldwide and can infect domestic poultry and other bird and animal species. Avian flu viruses do not normally infect humans. However, sporadic human infections with avian flu viruses have occurred.                              

An estimated half a million cranes pass through Israel every year on their way to Africa. Roughly 30,000 cranes, as well as pelicans and other birds stay behind for winter at the Hula Lake Park sanctuary, where workers there are working hard to remove the thousands of infected carcasses which pose a threat to wildlife in the north. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett put the National Security Council in charge of the dealing with the outbreak.                                  

      Bird Flu causes death in birds:  Here, dead cranes

Avian influenza, for most purposes, refers to the influenza A virus.  Though influenza A is adapted to birds, it can also stably adapt and sustain person-to-person transmission. Recent influenza research into the genes of the Spanish flu virus shows it to have genes adapted from both human and avian strains. Pigs can also be infected with human, avian, and swine influenza viruses, allowing for mixtures of genes (reassortment) to create a new virus, which can cause an antigenic shift to a new influenza A virus subtype which most people have little to no immune protection against.

                                              

Influenza A/H5N1 was first isolated from a goose in China in 1996. Human infections were first reported in 1997 in Hong Kong. Since 2003, more than 700 human cases of Asian HPAI H5N1 have been reported to the WHO, primarily from 15 countries in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, though over 60 countries have been affected.

                                                                        

Most human cases of the avian flu are a result of either handling dead infected birds or from contact with infected fluids. It can also be spread through contaminated surfaces and droppings. While most wild birds have only a mild form of the H5N1 strain, once domesticated birds such as chickens or turkeys are infected, H5N1 can potentially become much more deadly because the birds are often in close contact. H5N1 is a large threat in Asia with infected poultry due to low hygiene conditions and close quarters. Although it is easy for humans to contract the infection from birds, human-to-human transmission is more difficult without prolonged contact. However, public health officials are concerned that strains of avian flu may mutate to become easily transmissible between humans.

Strains of the influenza virus that primarily infect birds,  can also infect humans.

This type of flu is most often contracted by contact with sick birds. It can also be passed from person to person.

Symptoms begin within two to eight days, and can seem like the common flu. Cough, fever, sore throat, muscle aches, headache, and shortness of breath may occur.

The disease can carry a high mortality in humans. Some antiviral drugs, if taken within two days of symptoms, may help.  So in Israel, they not only have Omicron virus, but now should watch out for the Bird virus. 

Back in 2019 in Oregon, state wildlife officials announced on a Wednesday, that the mallard shot by a hunter at Fern Ridge Wildlife Area was carrying H5N2, one of more than 140 strains of the virus commonly known as avian influenza, or bird flu. The strain differs from H5N1, a mutation that appeared in the early 2000s and continues to sicken people in Europe, Asian and Africa. To date, no H5N1 infections have been reported in the United States.

                                                       

 At any given time, wild geese and ducks are likely to carry the flu in

their system, but it rarely makes them sick.

However, the H5N2 and H5N8 strains can sicken and kill falcons and domesticated poultry, making them an economic concern for poultry growers. In January 2019, in Washington's Tri-Cities, hundreds

 of chicken, turkey, ducks and guinea fowl were euthanized after members of their flocks contracted the virus.

Resource:

https://www.debka.com/mivzak/bird-flu-outbreak-in-israel-half-a-million-chickens-culled-migratory-birds-die/ Dec 28, 2021 @ 11:11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/index.htm

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2021-update-on-omicron

END OF TIMES IS HERE

Nadene Goldfoot     

son, Steve Henwood   with 2 cartoons                                         

                             Atmospheric entry of viruses that will live on people

The end of the times we have heard about is upon us.  We're living right in the future we have read about in science fiction; when all changed-though due to wars that included such things as atom bombings that scoured the earth, changing people and our way of life, sometimes even forcing us back to underground living shelters to escape the damaged air.

We have shootings, killing each other going on more than ever!  They're reverting back to the past in their manner, acting more like CAVE MAN than advanced beings of the year 2021.  In 1984 when we were warned aplenty, 2021   WAS the future.  “1984” is at its core a novel about language; how it can be used by governments to subjugate and obfuscate, and by citizens to resist oppression.  Language has been used to scare almost half of this population into thinking that a vaccine will kill you; but it is right before our eyes of all the deaths going on that the dying did NOT get the vaccine.  

                                                            

People have no patience to see doctor's warning through; thinking they licked the virus and ending our prevention steps when at least 30% of viruses are still with us; turning on even stronger changes of their bodies into the big gun killers, the Delta viruses.  They can do that, mutate into more and more varieties unless we rid them all-100%.  

                                                                     

Here we are.  People 200 years from now;  if there are still people, will look back and wonder just how did their elders ever become so stupid as to bring their past into such chaos.  How did we ever miss the mark of ALL getting our COVID virus shots and wearing masks to rid ourselves of the first viruses of COVID 19 and DELTA in the first place?  

This is a preview of our future, folks.  How is this happening?  We seniors complied beautifully, knowing we'd die with our weakened immune systems, and our children took care of us by making sure we got them and quickly.

                                                                       

It doesn't matter how viruses started; either in China, outer space from aliens  or our own labs.  The world was into biological warfare, seeing it was neater than bombs; less mess to clean up afterwards;  just bodies to burn.  The writing was on the wall with such places as Syria using chemical warfare against their own people.  Biological or germ warfare  was less telling; more secretive.  Biological warfare was normal, what with all the diseases we have managed to contain;  measles, mumps, all the childhood ones, others that have wiped out so many that we've managed to learn about and beat.

                                                                   

The Thinker, French Le Penseur, sculpture of a pensive nude male by French artist Auguste Rodin, one of his most well-known works, so the little guy has no idea of what a statue can be thinking about.  Are minds today as blank as "the thinker or the little guy"?  

We all have a mind and use it to think, but sometimes people just don't think clearly.  The top minds of our people are our doctors who study such things as viruses and what they can and can't do, and most of us are smart enough to follow their lead.  Politics cannot rule on this emergency.  It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican.  That doesn't help the doctors who fight diseases.  You can't use it at a crutch or a measure of your common sense.  It's become a hindrance, instead.                                                                   

This time, in order to do so, ALL must comply and receive the helps they have to offer; and that is NOT TO CONFUSE THE ISSUE WITH POLITICS.  People into politics only know about how to pass a law among like people like themselves.  They know nothing about science and viruses.  THE PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO ARE OUR SCIENTISTS.  

 If someone is so darned afraid of a little pinprick of a vaccine, they need to keep themselves in quarantine, have NO CONNECTION with any other human, have set up online food delivery at their closed door, and entertain themselves with books and TV and that's it.  They are endangering the rest of the population by keeping the viruses afloat and entering our bodies again.  The sad truth of it all is that these non-vaccinated people may not own a TV or a computer and may not even read, not realizing the harm they are doing to themselves or to others.  It only is happening when they enter the hospital.  If they do have these communicators, then they cannot continue wallowing in their pretend universe.  This is where they live and need to comply with the rules of the living.   

                                                       

 

They may be carriers and not realize it, so if the all-clear signal ever comes, they should be tested to make double sure they do not have any indication of it before they emerge like a caterpiller into a butterfly of our future society.                             

I'm tired of hearing about their beliefs that they feel G-d is protecting them when the next week they could be the ones overflowing the hospital again, wearing out the doctors and nurses to the point where right now, some are calling their calling quits out of exhaustion. 

                                                                 

We were given brains and have learned to use them so well. Our role in the world, being we are so smart, is to protect the planet and all that is on it; animals and plants.  We have arrived to the point of using solar power,                   

Tesla cars instead of gas ones, but we haven't improved on the matter of getting along with our neighbors or even husbands and wives very well, though

                                                                       

 It's almost there with the Abraham Accords arriving with the worst of religious enemies realizing how to get along and doing so.  At this point, we should all realize our potential and work towards it.  It's no time to sit back and think of just ourselves.  Realize how many people are being hurt by the person not helping to rid us of the scourge of killer viruses, something the world has never had to battle before.   It could be the end of humanity just as we're learning to live together in peace.  

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8/24/21 Update:  One of my readers mentioned the Great Barrington  Declaration.  Here it is: – "As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. https://gbdeclaration.org/

Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice. 

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza. 

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e.  the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity. 

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection. 

Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals. 

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.

On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 

United States, by:Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations."

I wonder what their comment would be now that we have not only COVID 19, but that it has mutated 

into the Delta virus and now the Lambda virus out of Peru of all places, each one bad and quickly moving 

around the world.