The Canadian in critical condition with H5N1 virus (not from known contact with other H5N1 infected animals) has a mutated variant that moves the virus closer to human-to-human transmissibility with high lethality.
Scientists have now studied the H5N1 virus that infected a teenager in Canada who had no contact with wild birds or any other animals with H5N1. This new H5N1 virus has three mutations at positions in the virus’ genome that allow it to attach more easily to human cells.
Thus far, no one who had contact with the infected teenager, who is still in critical condition, has caught H5N1, so this new mutated H5N1 virus is not believed to be human-to-human transmissible.
“Certainly, this is one of the first times that we’ve really seen evidence of these sort of adaptation mutations in H5,” according to Dr. Jesse Bloom, a computational virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (as reported in CNN).
The H5N1 bird flu virus that infected the Canadian is not the same strain that is transmitting in dairy cattle in the United States, and far milder in effects on humans who catch the virus from the cattle.
The Collapse Survivor App staff is releasing this information as a “Preparedness News” item, not a “Threat Alert”—meaning there is no need to consider bugging out or imminent collapse preparations. But H5N1 will become human to human transmissible at any time and if anywhere near the historic 60% lethality rate the virus could kill a billion people according to biologists—and the collapse that results could kill billions more with no economic activity and widespread loss of law and order for months to possibly over a year.
This H5N1 mutation development is further evidence of the inevitable progression of natural mutations that will eventually yield a human-to-human transmissible variant. A deliberately bioengineered, human-released H5N1 virus could happen now. The know how to modify H5N1 has been demonstrated in “gain of function” research and published, and the technology to bioengineer is widespread and very low cost.
Here is what you do not read in government agency and mainstream media announcements on H5N1:
- After “enough mutations of the right kind, the virus undergoes a quantum leap known as genetic shift, which can make it capable of unleashing a pandemic.” (Tanya Lewis, “Bird Flu Is One Step Closer to Mixing with Seasonal Flu Virus and Becoming a Pandemic,” Scientific American, October 31, 2024). This process is what produced the 2009 H1N1 swine flu, yielding a fortunately mild pandemic. With the H5N1 virus mutating in 48 different mammal species across the globe, and also in some humans like the teenager in Canada (and likely many more people), the virus has perfect “mixing vessels” to mutate, reassort, and turn into a highly lethal and contagious human virus. Seasonal influenza and H5N1 viruses can swap RNA segments inside a human’s cells, to produce a new strain that is the perfect human killer.
- But rather than wait for natural mutations, there is an unknown but Collapse Survivor staff estimate high likelihood that Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, or a dozen terrorist groups or biologists have already deliberately bioengineered an H5N1 variant to obtain high human transmissibility and lethality. This is almost never mentioned in official government publications on H5N1.
- A former Director of the CDC has warned that an H5N1 pandemic is inevitable, and likely will be caused by deliberate human bioengineering, with H5N1 used as a bio weapon by a nation state or a terrorist group or a dedicated individual who wants to “save the planet” by stopping human “overpopulation” and pollution.
The CDC continues to rate H5N1 as a “low risk.” This is irresponsible and dead wrong. H5N1 is an extremely high risk of the worst pandemic in history, triggering a long and disastrous collapse. It is very likely inevitable, could happen tomorrow, and the vast majority of people are not prepared to survive the pandemic or the collapse. That is very high risk, not low risk.
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