FDA LIED ABOUT BIRD FLU IN MILK !!!!FDA Admits It Doesn’t Know if Retail Milk Contains Live Bird Flu, test not conclusive
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not sure whether any intact highly pathogenic avian influenza is present in milk sold in grocery stores, an FDA official told a conference on April 25.
H. L. Mencken says the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
FDA LIED ABOUT BIRD FLU IN MILK !!!!FDA Admits It Doesn’t Know if Retail Milk Contains Live Bird Flu, test not conclusive
Agency says milk supply is safe, but acknowledges a lack of testing.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not sure whether any intact highly pathogenic avian influenza is present in milk sold in grocery stores, an FDA official told a conference on April 25.
“Does any live virus survive the pasteurization process? ... This is the key question for us,” Donald Prater, acting director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
FDA officials announced earlier this week that testing on milk from grocery stores tested positive for the avian influenza, commonly known as the bird flu.
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Jazz, on the tweet - WOROBEY is a discredited tool of the establishment.
Here's a visual of the US H5N1 "Cattle clade", HA plus two internal genes. Strongly suggests to me there was single origin, at least for these sequences. Possibly in late 2023/early 2024.
He was rolled out to try to quosh the theory that HIV originated from Oral Polio Vaccine.. He did this by publishing a 'brief communication' in Nature, which Wiki cited as authoritative proof that it is a 'now-dicredited theory' -- yet my Snapshot of Wiki from 2020 DOES NOT have this entry, so WOROBEY was rolled out since 2020 to discredit the OPV theory of HIV origin.
For example, listen to this interview with expert Nick Petowsky at 28m:
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ChatGPT Answers The HIV Lab Origin Question: A Review With Nick Petowsky
Nick states that Worobey "used a phylogenetic tree and goes into what looks like a very quantitative alignment with arguments about timeframes and they don't address ANY of the hard criticisms that have been brought about their approach"
Kevin states: "the use of a 'brief communication' is underhand method of frontloading literature to make it so wiki can say they have the definitive answer. Brief comms are notoriously short on data"
-- Worobey is not to be trusted. He is a highly skilled manipulator working for the enemy.
-- Now look again at my RED text above. Why would WOROBEY be rolled out in 2020 to discredit the Oral Polio Vaccine hypothesis for the origin of HIV? Remember the inserts? hmm.
WOROBEY has also been used to place the source of SARS2 as the 'wet market', and we know he used fraudelent data and missed out hundreds of cases to implicate the wet market as the origin.. Ask Charles Rixey. WOROBEY is a fraud. I am skeptical of anything he says.
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Ah but wait, wait, seems as if a new line for the EPA has been found after the old line failed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/20-percent-retail-milk-samples-positive-bird-flu-fda
In a brief 237-word update, the FDA said that initial results from a national commercial milk sampling study “show about 1 in 5 of the retail samples tested are quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)-positive for HPAI viral fragments, with a greater proportion of positive results coming from milk in areas with infected herds.”
The FDA has refused to disclose how many samples it tested and from which stores the samples came, and a Freedom of Information Act request for the information has not yet yielded results.
Thirty-three cattle herds across eight states—Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, and Texas—have tested positive for avian influenza, commonly known as the bird flu, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Poultry in Minnesota and a person in Texas have also become infected with the same genotype of the H5N1 avian influenza strain found in cattle.
Authorities have stressed that positive results from qPCR testing do not mean the pasteurized milk contains intact virus, because the testing can return positive based on fragments of residual virus.
“Additional testing is required to determine whether intact pathogen is still present and if it remains infectious, which would help inform a determination of whether there is any risk of illness associated with consuming the product,” the FDA said.
Testing includes injecting eggs with samples that tested positive and seeing whether any active virus replicates.
In another round of testing, conducted by a team from Ohio State University, 58 of 150 milk samples gathered from grocery stores across six states tested positive for bird flu.
“We’ve screened them for the presence of influenza genetic material, so the viral RNA. Those that have tested positive, we have been forwarded to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where they are conducting studies to see if there’s a viable virus in there. To date, none of them have been viable, but certainly they give the indication that there is viral genetic material in the region,” Dr. Andrew Bowman, an associate professor at Ohio State University, told the Bovine Veterinarian magazine.
“The fact that you can go into a supermarket and 30 percent to 40 percent of those samples test positive, that suggests there’s more of the virus around than is currently being recognized,” Richard Webby, a virologist at St. Jude’s, told STAT News.
The FDA has said it will release more details about the testing in the future. Raw milk from farms with affected cows has also tested positive for bird flu.
Authorities initially said that pasteurized milk was definitely safe but have since acknowledged that they’re not sure whether milk in grocery stores contains live bird flu virus. The FDA announced Tuesday that some samples tested positive for the influenza.
Officials say it’s still safe to drink milk but some outside experts, including former U.S. government official Rick Bright, have said they’re going to hold off until more information is made public about the outbreak.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture only required testing dairy cows showing symptoms of the flu but, starting Monday will require lactating cows to test negative before being moved across state lines.
The flu originated in birds but has since moved to other animals, including cattle and goats.
The person in Texas, and an individual in Colorado who became sick in 2022, are the only humans with confirmed cases of the H5N1 version in the United States.
Monitoring of people who have come into contact with animals has only covered 44 people so far, Sonja Olsen, an epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told an Association of State and Territorial Health Officials webinar this week. Twenty-three people who showed symptoms were tested. The person in Texas, a farm worker, has been the only person to test positive so far.
I don't trust the CDC or FDA and will never, ever believe a word they say. They can go to hell. They're failed, lying, cheating, self-serving organizations who reflect the abject dysfunctional status of the U.S. medical system.