The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Strange Truth- Bird Flu Update- What we know so far. No need to panic.

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

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music Well, welcome to another episode of the Strange Truth. I'm your host Carl B and I hope that everyone's had a pretty decent week. It's been crazy up here, upstate New York, man. It's been crazy here, you know, on the Brown Homestead, so to speak, too. week for about a week and a half we've had not only severe weather because you know it's been like I think that we stayed under 30 degrees for extensive like periods of time like you know for days but we've also, you know, my family, we've also had the flu. So it's been, you know, a really rough couple of days. And you know, what can I say?

I'm just glad that, you know, we're feeling okay right now and everything is going well. While I'm recording this we just lost power. The power just went off and it's still off while I'm recording this so I know I saved all my sources and I'm hoping that everything is just saved and I have access to everything but it's incredible that, yeah, I just pretty much just lost power here. Oh, okay, there it is. It just came back. It's been crazy.

It's been crazy. The whole family had the flu for about a week and a half. My wife still has a cough. It's really rough when you're running a fever and it's like nine degrees below or something. So that was a week and a half of just misery. But we're feeling better now and everybody's over it. I think that the kids brought it home from school and then of course we got it.

I am always the last one that you know gets it. It's amazing how it just cycles through the family but I'm usually the last one that gets it. You know it was it was rough. Right. So you know that was one of the reasons why we didn't have an episode last week because I just could not do it. I couldn't do it.

It was just too much. Anyway, I really wanted to talk about the bird flu. So this episode is all is going to be about the bird flu. That's what we're gonna be discussing. It is something that has, you know, like we in the preparedness community, in the homesteading community, we are aware of, we've been aware of the bird flu for the last, going on what now, four years. We've watched it take root both here and in Europe. We've watched it spread. We've watched it go through the animals, you know, the farm animals and, you know, the chickens and the cows and everything else. And now you see

it is popping up in human beings and everything else. But, you know, it's just amazing that, you know, since Mr. Biden lost the election, now all the mainstream media, all of a sudden now they've found the bird flu. So it was there all this time and they did not really report on it. It was never anything of major concern to them, right? Because of course they had to bury anything bad and they had to keep propping up their candidate, so to speak. But now that he's gone, right now you know you see it popping up all over the news and

everybody's asking about it. It got to a point where even a co-worker of mine who you knowpping, has never asked me any questions really as far as any preparedness, any type of anything like this. And this person came to me and said, hey, what's going on with this bird flu? Because they were getting, obviously it's popping, you know, obviously, it's popping more, you know, popping more and more in the news, and, and, and they've really become aware of it, and they're becoming more and more alarmed. You know, and I told this person, well, this is something

that personally, I have been kind of like keeping tabs on for the last couple of years. And while, you know, we know that if this thing mutates and becomes more viral in terms of, you know, if it goes airborne, or if it just becomes really easy for people to get it, then yeah, it could cause a lot of problems could be pretty lethal, right? I think then yeah, it could cause a lot of problems, could be pretty lethal, right? I think the lethality of this thing has been, be what, 40 to 50%, you know, any animals that get it die, you know, so you just kind of translate that

to human beings, at least initially, right? Because usually what happens, it starts really strong and then it peters out, it becomes less and less, right? But it's in the initial stages when people are getting it, and it peters out, it becomes less and less, right? But it's in the initial stages when people are getting it, it causes the most damage. That seems to be the way the virus goes, right? Because they really don't wanna kill the host, right? They just wanna spread.

And eventually, they become less and less lethal, right? We even saw this with COVID as well, right? Where initially people got sick really bad and then after a while it became less and less lethal. So this person came to me and was asking me all kinds of stuff about it and I was really surprised. It's on people's radar now, folks. It's on people's radar. The person also said to me that it's presenting, right? A lot of times it seems to be presenting as pink eye. And they went to the pharmacy and they noticed that a lot of the medication

for pink eye was gone. So if you go to the pharmacy and you notice that a lot of the pink eye medication is gone, that could be telling you that maybe there's something going on in your neck of the woods too, right? So because it's all about inferring right you know that's what we try to do to try and keep one step ahead is try to figure out and sense what's going on right we try to read the the tea leaves so to speak so that we can be at least one step ahead so I'm going to

that we can be at least one step ahead. So I'm going to, I'm gonna go to, you know, we're gonna do some ads here, you know, because they keep the lights on, right? So let's listen to some of our sponsors here and then I'm gonna jump right into these articles about the bird flu. So, you know, I'm gonna try right into these articles about the bird flu. So, I'm gonna try and bring you all my listeners,

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We know that it had, you know that at first they were saying it was all about the game birds, or about wild birds all across the USA. And then of course it spread to chickens, and it just made its way up through, they found it in different animals, like they would find it in like foxes and different wild animals. And it's made its way, right, to cows and different farm animals, you know, mice. They found it in mice, which is kind of worrying. Right. So we know that we've been tracking this over the last four years here on PBN. So we know that this thing has been out there and it's been slowly mutating.

One of the things I want to warn our audience about is, you know, is apathy. Right. I know that we've been burnt with COVID. or audience about is, you know, is apathy, right? I know that we've been burnt with COVID. A lot of things happened with COVID that shouldn't have happened at all. That should not make us not pay attention very carefully to this whole bird flu thing, okay? Because regardless of how we might feel about

lockdowns and masks and different things the virus is a virus right and if this thing is out there and if it gets out and if it starts hurting people and if you know and people start getting sick then it doesn't matter what you think about lockdowns or masks or anything like that. Virus is a virus. The virus is going to do its thing. And with a lethality of 40% to 50%, then yeah, we got to take this thing seriously. So while we're not going to go overboard with it and start running for the hills and start saying, the sky is falling, it is something

that I think that we have to be very, very prudent in tracking it and making sure that we are up to date with what's going on with it so that if something happens if this thing then you know starts you know infecting people then we can take the steps necessary steps to protect ourselves and our families okay so I just kind of wanted to throw that out there but I'm gonna go through some articles now right So I just kind of wanted to throw that out there, but I'm going to go through some articles now, right? As I said, all of a sudden now bird flu is, is in the news. It wasn't in the news mainstream media really, you know, when Mr. Biden was in office, but now we're Mr. Trump, you know, all bad news now is going to take president.

So let's just hear what they're saying here. This is from ABC News and it says first bird flu death in the United States reported in Louisiana and this was published on January 6, 2025. And it says the first person has died of bird flu in the United States. The Louisiana Department of Health confirmed on Monday patient, who was exposed to non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds, was over age 65 and had underlying medical conditions, officials said. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the patient was experiencing the first case of severe bird flu in the US. At the Times, a spokesman from the Louisiana Department of Health told ABC News

the patient was experiencing severe respiratory illness related to bird flu infection and was in critical condition. The patient remains the only human case of bird flu confirmed in Louisiana. The US has seen an increase in human cases of bird flu or avian influenza since April when the first human case was reported. Now, this is last, you know, this of course they're talking about last April, right? This guy died in January 2025. So this is all current here. Let's see. In a statement on Monday, the CDC said the first bird flu death in the US was not unexpected given the known potential for infection with these viruses to cause severe illness and death. The agency said its risk assessment has not changed, that the risk

to the general public remains low and no person-to-person transmission has been identified. As of January 3rd there have been 66 human cases of bird flu reported in the US according to the CDC data. Signs and symptoms of infections in humans often include sore throat, cough, fever, runny or stuffy nose, headache, muscle or body aches, fatigue, and shortness of breath, the CDC says. Less common symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and seizures. Infections can range from no symptoms to mild illness such as bird flu-like symptoms to

more severe illness such as pneumonia, which could require hospitalizations, the CDC said. Almost all confirmed cases have had direct contact with infected cattle or infected livestock. Aside from the case confirmed in the Louisiana patient. Cases have been mild and patients have all recovered after receiving antiviral medication, according to the CDC and state health officials. One previous case in Missouri was hospitalized, but health officials pointed to other health conditions aside from bird flu infection involved in the patient's admission to the hospital. The Louisiana Department of Health and the CDC say there is no evidence of person-to-person

transmission and the risk to the general public is low. However, those who work with birds, poultry or cows or have recreational exposure to them are at higher risk. The CDC recommends staying away from sick or dead wild birds, poultry, and other animals and if contact is unavailable, using personal protective equipment. The agency also suggests not touching surfaces or materials contaminated with saliva, mucus, or animal feces from wild or domestic birds and animals confirmed or suspected to have bird flu, as well as not consuming raw milk

or raw milk products. The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a new federal order last month that raw milk samples nationwide will be collected and shared with the department in order to test for bird flu a few weeks later The Food and Drug Administration announced that federal health officials have begun collecting samples of aged raw cow's milk cheese Across the US to test for bird flu So there you have that report from ABC News right and So there you have that report from ABC News. Right?

And let's go to CNN. CNN, right? You know, I think that this is probably one of the first times CNN has carried anything about the bird flu, right? I wonder why? I wonder why? Right? But let's read, let's read this article here.

How America lost control of the bird flu setting the stage for another pandemic right this is this is cnn and listen to the headline how america lost control of the bird flu so trump has been in uh he's been in office for about a week and now we have this headline about about how America lost control of the bird flu. So you mean how the Biden administration lost control of the bird flu, right? And setting the stage for another pandemic, because the Biden administration for the last four years, right, should have been taking care of this. If there's any issues. But let's read the article.

Right. A lab manager prepares milk samples for testing as the Animal Health Diagnostic Center of Cornell blah blah blah. Well, let me just skip over that. Keith Paulson jaw dropped when farmers showed him images of their cell phones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Paulson had seen sick cows before with their noses dripping on others slack, but the scale of the farmers efforts to treat the sick cows stunned him. They showed videos of systems they had built to hydrate hundreds of cattle at once in a 14-hour shifts. Now I reported on this about two months ago. There was a report about this very same thing about two or three months ago that I reported on here on A Strange Truth on PBN right so so this to us is old news we've reported this but you know

what it's good to read it again so that you know if you've missed if you did miss that you know if you did miss that episode right then of course now you're you're be able to hear it again but I'll read this again Keith Paulson's draw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cell phones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Paulson had seen sick cows before with their noses dripping and their udders slack. But the scale of the farmers' efforts to treat the sick cows stunned them.

They showed videos of systems they have built to hydrate hundreds of cattle at once in 14-hour shifts. Dairy workers pumped gallons of electrolyte-rich fluids into ailing cows through metal tubes inserted into the oesophagus. It was like watching a field hospital on an active battlefront treating hundreds of wounded soldiers he said. Nearly a year into the first outbreak of the bird flu, among cattle, the virus shows no sign of slowing.

The US government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confirmed to a handful of states, but by quickly identifying infected cows and taking measures to keep their infections from spreading. Now at least 875 herds across 16 states have tested positive. Experts say they have lost faith in the government's ability to contain the outbreak. We are in a terrible situation and going into a worse situation said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. I don't know if the bird flu will become pandemic but if it does we are you know she used the

explicit of you know we are you know pretty much done for. To understand how the bird flu got out of hand KFF health News interviewed nearly 70 government officials, farmers and farm workers and researchers with expertise in virology, pandemics, veterinarian medicine and more. Together with emails obtained from local health departments through public records requests, this investigation revealed key problems including deference to the farm industry, eroded public health budgets, neglect for the safety of agriculture workers and the sluggish pace of federal interventions.

Case in point, the US Department of Agriculture this month announced a federal order to test milk nationwide. Researchers welcomed the news but said it should have happened months ago before the virus was so entrenched. It is disheartening to see so many of the same failures that emerged during the Covid-19 crisis re-emerge, said Tom Bolleke, director of the Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Far more bird flu damage is inevitable but the extent of it will be left to the Trump administration and mother nature.

Already the USDA funneled more than 1.7 billion into tamping down the bird flu on poultry farms since 2022, which includes reimbursing farmers who have had to cull their flocks and more than 430 million into combating bird flu on dairy farms. In coming years, the bird flu may cost billions of dollars more in expenses and losses. Dairy industry experts say the virus kills roughly 2% to 5% of infected dairy cows and reduces a herd's milk production by about 20%. Worse, the outbreak poses the threat of a pandemic. More than 60 people in the US have been infected, mainly by cows or poultry, but cases could skyrocket if the virus evolves to spread efficiently from person to person.

And the recent news of a person critically ill in Louisiana with the bird flu shows that the virus can be dangerous. We know that that person has since died. Just a few mutations could allow the bird flu to spread among people because viruses mutate within human and animal bodies. Each infection is like a pull of a slot machine lever. Even if there's only a 5% chance

of a bird flu pandemic happening, we're talking about a pandemic that probably looks like 2020 or worse, said Tom Peacock, a bird. His name is Tom Peacock, a bird flu researcher at the Purbright Institute in the United Kingdom, referring to COVID. The US knows the risk, but hasn't done anything to slow this down he added. Beyond the bird flu the federal government's handling of the outbreak reveals cracks in the US health security system that could allow other risky new pathogens to take root. So you know it's interesting now that all of a sudden right you know they're now talking about you know the bird flu it's popping into people's consciousness right but you know we've been tracking this over four years and you know we've seen this thing spread

through farms hundreds of cows you know thousands of cows died millions of birds culled right and now all of a sudden now they're talking about oh egg prices egg prices are high You know Trump and Mr. Egg prices are high, but guess what? Egg prices have been high, you know over the last pretty much three years because the bird flu has killed off Right a lot of the chickens and when you have less chickens Then you have you know you have less eggs and of course less eggs leads to higher egg prices, right? you know, you have less eggs and of course less eggs leads to higher egg prices, right? So it's really interesting to me that all of a sudden all these people are crying about,

you know, like the bird flu and egg prices and this and that, you know, when yeah, well this thing has been going on for a really long time so they really need to go back into the history of all of this and do their research properly. We've been we've been you know we've been tracking this thing as I've said many many times here you know for over four years so this to us is like old news to a lot of people on the other side I think of the political spectrum this is this is new to a lot of them because they've never really heard any of this news and now they're going to use it to do damage to the administration you know so it's so but we however we've got to be smart in the way we use this information we've got to make sure

that we're keep tracking you know the you know the extent of the you know the progress that it's making zoonotically is a pathogen pretty much really becoming more transmissible amongst human beings, which is really, really seriously important for us. And if we notice an uptick here, then of course, then we of course, we all here act accordingly, right? And but you know, we can't allow ourselves to be lulled, or to be apathetic, because of what happened with COVID. We've got to still be on our guard and make sure that we're tracking this. And we're paying the proper attention to this.

So while you know, I'm not running from the hills here, we're not doing that, and we're not saying the sky is falling. We're not like CNN. We're not saying the sky is falling, but this is something that yes, we need to make sure we pay proper attention to. So what do we know about it?

We know that for many years it's been traveling and spreading amongst farmers. We know that it has really taken a toll on the chicken industry, the poultry industry. We know that millions of birds have been culled over the last four years. We know that lots of cows have died, you know, hundreds, you know, is probably in the hundreds of thousands of cows have died because of this and it's really affected the cattle industry. And, you know, you know, there were all these reports of of cows just being pretty much dumped on the side of the road out there in California. Right. Because, you know, the cows were dying. And this is something that never got any play in the mainstream media, right. But there was a lot of, you know, reports of cows just being dumped because they couldn't

keep up because we're actually dying. So you know, we, we know that this one person has died in the US. I believe that there's been other fatalities across the world in Canada and in the UK. Other people have died because of it. The symptoms are flu-like. The thing that you have to watch for is it presents a lot of times like pink eye. So, you know, with people at work, you know,

if you notice that they've got pink eye or whatever, you know, I would say, you know, be cautious, be cautious if you notice, you know, people in a storm, you know, whatever, you know, like, and it appears that they have pink eye if you've got kids and they come home with pink eye, right? You know, which these days is not really common, right? It's, you know, it used to be, but it's not anymore, then it might be cause for concern. Maybe you might want to get yourself

or that person tested. If the person's in your family, maybe they really should get tested to see really what's really going on with them because you don't want this thing spreading and we're not really necessarily taking care of it, but it does present as pink eye and just mild flu symptoms in some people, in some people.

Take care of your backyard flocks, please, because they'll use any excuse to come after homesteaders, they'll use any excuse to make people less self-sufficient. So if this thing really, if there's an outbreak, then you know they're gonna come after the backyard flocks and they're gonna give people a hard time. Make your plans accordingly. Make sure that if you do have backyard chickens

that you can take them inside you can keep him inside Right that you have a place for your chickens to go You know in case anything breaks out so if you're just free ranging and there's no real you don't have like chicken coops or or you know or If you have if you have a chicken coop where it's not, you know It can't be locked properly to prevent the chickens from getting out maybe you want to kind of start seeing to to all that right so that you have a proper place you know it just in case this thing like evolves and then it you know it all hits the fan and they start coming for

people's backyard flocks me you know you should have a way to lock up your your chickens, your quail, you know, whatever you keep in your backyard and bring your animals in and out of the way, right. And keep them healthy. Okay, so, you know, that's what we know so far, right. But you know, it's popping in the news. I would say right now there is no real cause for major alarm, but I think that this thing is going to keep mutating and evolving and we're just gonna have to see how it goes. I do think that, I give it another couple of months,

another eight to 12 months to see where it all goes. You know, Christmas, you know, by Christmas, by by December of this year, you know, if you know, if there's not, you know, if there's no indication that this thing has evolved, then, you know, it'd be interesting. thing but yeah that's what we know okay all right so I hope that you you you got something from this right we don't we don't try to tell you how to think here on PBN right we just give you information and let you you know and let you decide how you're going to use that information. Please do your own research. You can Google bird flu.

And if you do now, you're going to notice that, wow, it's not just in the alternate media anymore. Three months ago when I Googled bird flu, it was in mostly just the alternate media sources. Now it's in like ABC and CBS and NBC and the rest of them. It's in all of these mainstream media sources. It's amazing how that just start becoming a source of major interest to folks. Okay, so do your own research and let people know, right, you know, we're not panicking here, right?

We don't panic, right? You know, as James would say, you know, it's all right, calm within the chaos, right? That's what we do here, right? We give you the information and just like with COVID, with COVID folks here on PBN knew it was coming months before it hit the United States and were well prepared beforehand. I would say two, three months out, you know, folks on PBN were talking about COVID and preparing for it. So when it did hit, it was like, okay, we were ready for it. So the same thing applies to this situation as well.

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