Fatal influenza A infection in cattle is unprecedented. With California declaring a public health emergency, everyone should be asking where it came from.
John Leake, Courageous Discourse, 12/19/24
Reviewing the literature on Influenza A in cattle, I see that until 2024, it was regarded as extremely rare. Documented cases of natural influenza A infections in cattle are presented on the following graph, published in a 2019 paper titled Influenza A in Bovine Species: A Narrative Literature Review in the journal Virus.
The following graph displays documented cases of experimental influenza A infections in cattle, published in the same paper.
In spite of fatal influenza A infections in cattle being unprecedented, we are being told that—quite suddenly in the year 2024—Highly Pathogenic Influenza A subtype H5N1 (a form of Avian Influenza or “Bird Flu”) has been detected in dairy cattle herds in Texas and other states. Yesterday, the State of California declared a public health emergency because this pathogen is reportedly spreading in dairy cattle and allegedly killing scores of them.
Strangely enough, I cannot find a single serious investigative report—conducted by large animal veterinarians—that attempts to answer how and why this particular virus (classified as HPAI H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b) has so dramatically expanded its host range into a bovine animals with lethal effect.
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It makes no sense to me since everything I’ve learned says that bird viruses are not transmissible to other species. The only exception was when birds migrated between Canada and China during migratory seasons. The Canadian birds would leave bird droppings on the ground which were then eaten by pigs. The Chinese pigs would develop avian flu symptoms and these in turn were transmissible to humans due to their biological similarity.
That was a naturally occurring event. Any other transmission event would be unnatural.
The bird viruses would have to be mixed in with the cattle’s food, or with the big cat’s food at that Oregon zoo. Sabotage would explain it.