Bird flu is just FOUR mutations away from causing human outbreak — as experts describe virus as ‘pandemic threat that’s going to keep knocking at our door‘
Bird flu will eventually it cause a pandemic in humans, an expert warns
Scientists identified four key mutations it would need to spread widely in people
in a landmark 2012 study, Dutch researchers manufactured the H5N1 bird flu to spread airborne between ferrets.
This type of research falls under the controversial ‘gain-of-function’ label and has been restricted in most of the world.
But through their studies, the team identified changes to the virus’s bindings that allow it to travel through the air and attach to human cells, it’s RNA code and that allow it to infect more efficiently and let it escape natural barriers.
Dr Mathilde Richard, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, told the journal Science: ‘This is the threat that’s going to keep knocking at our door until it will indeed, I assume, cause a pandemic.
This is the link to the story of how the scientist above created mutations to make more infectious!
The history of the Covid-19 pandemic started long before 2019.
If I were to put a start date on the series of events leading to Covid-19, I’d start in 2011 when the Dutch scientist Ron Fouchier and his team at Erasmus University acquired a highly pathogenic avian influenza, bred the virus to be more infectious in mammals, and then opted to publish his findings in a scientific journal with global reach.
At many points in the series of events, Dr. Fouchier had other options. I’m also a biologist, I’ve also thought of terrifying things one could make by a mix of genetic engineering and breeding, but unlike Dr. Fouchier I did not act on those horrific impulses, let alone share these ideas in the public domain.
After breeding a potentially pandemic pathogen with ease, Dr. Fouchier had the option of reporting his findings to the Dutch defense and intelligence community in a non-public venue, raising their awareness of a threat without popularizing his handbook for bioterrorists worldwide, thereby increasing the threat itself. Instead, Dr. Fouchier published what one might call a bioterrorism cookbook, complete with a cartoon showing how you can cause a pandemic:
