California Declares STATE OF EMERGENCY to Stop Next Pandemic!

Gavin Newsome is trying to stop the next pandemic but even California’s state of emergency may have come too late.

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Meanwhile, Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in California due to bird flu. We had Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding on the show the day before yesterday, and it has now infected so many dairy herds—645 in California alone and over 1,000 nationwide. There have also been three identified H5N1 infections in cats in California, and 61 people have contracted the virus since March, according to the CDC.

Newsom’s declaration will allow California to “have more flexibility around staffing, contracting, and other rules to support California’s evolving response.”

What I did not know, and learned from this article in the LA Times, is that there are two strains of bird flu circulating right now, both H5N1. One is the D1.1 strain, which is circulating in wild birds and is the one that, when it jumps to humans, makes them very sick. The other strain is the B3.1.3 version, which is circulating in dairy cows. This strain has jumped to many people but does not seem to produce as severe a form of influenza.

The hope, I suppose, is that if one of these strains combines with a regular human flu virus, it would be the B3.1.3 strain, which is less pathogenic than the D1.1 strain. Meanwhile, a Canadian teenager has been hospitalized with severe illness from bird flu.

Zoos around the world are also shutting down due to this outbreak. In the U.S., a cheetah, a mountain lion, an Indian goose, and a capybara have died at the Wildlife World Zoo near Phoenix. The San Francisco Zoo had to shut down its aviaries after a red-shouldered hawk was found dead from bird flu. A rare red-breasted goose died at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.

Internationally, 47 tigers, three lions, and a panther in zoos across South Vietnam have died from bird flu. In the U.S., Louisiana, Missouri, and Kansas have announced cases of bird flu, particularly in geese and waterfowl. Here in Oregon, approximately 990,000 birds have died, apparently from bird flu.

Keep an eye on this. As I’ve been saying, this could get really ugly, especially as Trump prepares to take office.

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