The Real Game Behind Bird Flu Pandemic

Written by Chriss W. Street

Flu, short for influenza, is a trans-species respiratory virus that crossed over from birds between 500 to 2,500 years ago. Although usually only causing small seasonal epidemics each winter that can dangerously weakening some seniors, the 1918 flu pandemic killed 2% of world population.

Most people that get flu can recover on their own, but it is important for seniors and people with chronic debilitation to consider getting a vaccine. There are lots of variations of flus,so the yearly vaccine formula may or may not offer good protection.

In historic times, the flu followed a pattern of big pandemics once every few decades. But modern travel means the flu variation will cover the planet each year. Major pandemics happen when a new flu strain is transferred from animals into humans. This new “trans-species” tends to linger, then undergoes gradual mutations, persists in the follow one or several years to cause smaller annual epidemics.

The probability of the death is determined by both the severability of the virus and how effective the human population’s antibodies are effective against the current strain of virus. The science to predicting these issues is very problematic, because people’s immune systems gets permanently locked-in to the first flu they experience.

The H1N1 Spanish Flu of 1918 that killed about 2% of the world’s population, tended to kill young healthy people between 18 and 28, and people over 88 years old had almost no deaths. This is believed to be due to 1830 having the first H1N1 flu pandemic.

Flu pandemics are always caused by influenza A virus with two surface antigen proteins and a cocktail of 18 flavors of hemagglutinin and 11 flavors of neuraminidase. Flu strains are named after the flavor combinations, such as H1N1, H3N2, or H5N1.

The chart above tracks the pathogen levels of the 1918 pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus by lead researcher Michael Worobey. He was the most accurate zoonotic researcher regarding the trans-species capability of bat to human COVID transfers.

According to Worobey, there have only been 60 - 70 recorded human cases this year, despite numerous chicken and cow infections. So unless there is a new more robust trans-species flus strain, there is little chance of 10,000 farmers becoming infected.

Recent pandemic flu outbreaks include;

1918: An H1N1 flu (“Spanish flu”) jumped from birds to humans in America and killed 50 million people worldwide. This replaced all older strains, so most seasonal flus during this era were H1N1.

1957: An H2N2 flu (“Asian flu”) crossed from birds to humans in China, and killed about 2 million people worldwide. It replaced the H1N1 strain, so most seasonal flus during this era were H2N2.

1968: An H3N2 flu (“Hong Kong flu”) crossed from pigs to humans in Hong Kong, and killed another 2 million people worldwide. It replaced the H2N2 strain, so most seasonal flus during this era were H3N2.

1977: An H1N1 flu (“Russian flu”) leaked from a biology lab (?) in Russia (it might have been a strain from the 1940s, which the Russians were trying to make a vaccine for). It didn’t kill that many people, but it stuck around, and from then on, seasonal flus could be either H3N2 or H1N1.

2009: An H1N1 flu (“Mexican flu” until the PC police stepped in; afterwards “swine flu”) took some horrible circuitous route between birds and pigs and back again, crossed over into humans in Mexico, and killed 200,000 people. It outcompeted older strains of H1N1, but couldn’t crowd out H3N2, so seasonal flus are still either H3N2 or H1N1.