0:01

We reported last week out of Mexico was the

0:04

first fatal case of a subtype. It was H5N2.

0:07

This was the highly

0:09

pathogenic avian bird flu. And the WHO

0:12

put out its own press release on

0:14

its own website. And we broke

0:16

this down and they showed, they broke down

0:18

the first case here in Mexico. And

0:20

they were bringing it down, showing it.

0:22

And they tested this individual four times

0:24

up the chain of PCR tests. They

0:26

were really looking hard to see if

0:29

they can find this, make

0:31

sure the sample was right. And

0:33

they said this person died

0:35

from this H5N2. But hold on one

0:37

second. The CBC comes out and says

0:39

this. Mexico says patient died of chronic

0:42

disease, not H5N2 bird flu. As we

0:44

told you, there was a lot of

0:46

issues with this certain patient. It says

0:48

Mexico's health ministry on Friday stressed that

0:51

the 59-year-old man's death was due to

0:53

chronic conditions that led to septic shock.

0:55

It was not attributed to the virus.

0:57

They said, quote, the diseases were long-term

1:00

and caused conditions that led to failure

1:02

of several organs, the ministry said, citing the

1:04

findings by a team of experts. The

1:06

man had chronic kidney disease, diabetes,

1:08

and arterial hypertension over the past

1:10

14 years, according to health officials.

1:13

Why did they look so hard? This

1:16

is the open-ended question to try to

1:18

find bird flu in this person. Again,

1:20

is this died because of bird flu

1:22

or with bird flu or what's

1:24

going on here? And we're seeing

1:26

the headlines that are really mirroring, you

1:28

know, it's bringing back probably for some

1:30

people some trauma, mirroring the run-up to

1:32

the COVID response. Here's one of them.

1:34

With bird flu tests hard to get,

1:37

how will we know when to sound

1:39

a pandemic alarm? I

1:41

mean, that headline right there says

1:43

so many things. You could teach a class on it

1:46

from what we saw with COVID. Because, you

1:48

know, how are we going to know? But regardless,

1:50

here's the European Union. They're securing their vaccines right

1:52

now. They've secured over 40

1:54

million avian flu vaccines for 15 countries.

1:57

So they are not screwing around. really

2:00

seriously, but the big question, yeah,

2:02

the big question with this conversation with

2:04

bird flu is gain of function. That

2:07

should be on everybody's mind. And we've

2:09

been talking about it, we broke it

2:11

down, we're gonna go deeper into it

2:13

here because Dr. Peter McCullough and his

2:16

co-authors have now put out a paper

2:18

that have broken down the current strain

2:20

that is affecting animal species and causing

2:22

sporadic human infections. This is the proximal

2:25

origin of this highly pathogenic avian

2:28

influenza and it says the proximal origins

2:30

of HPA, H5N1 clad 2 point,

2:34

this is basically the current version

2:37

of this virus affecting, it says

2:39

maybe the USDA, Southeast Poultry Research

2:41

Laboratory in Athens, Georgia and

2:43

the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam,

2:45

the Netherlands. And of course McCullough

2:47

and co-authors say they conclude a

2:49

moratorium on gain of function research

2:51

including serial passage of H5N1 is

2:53

indicated to prevent

2:56

a man-made influenza pandemic causing

2:58

animals, affecting animals and humans. And this

3:00

is what everyone's talking about, even the

3:02

House Energy and Commerce Committee is saying

3:04

we need a completely independent body, we

3:07

need to take this idea

3:09

of gain of function away from NIH and have an

3:11

independent body that looks at these because this is a

3:15

major danger. And the Organic

3:17

Consumers Association, they wrote a great article

3:19

just a couple of years ago, really

3:22

outlining this and its title is Bird

3:25

Flu Being Weaponized. And they go into

3:27

this, now bird flu in humans has

3:29

only been known for just a couple

3:31

decades here. So this is something that

3:33

goes back hundreds and hundreds of years

3:36

in the scientific literature. So they

3:38

break down the history of this and you'll notice

3:40

as I go through this segment at every juncture

3:42

in the history of bird flu over the last

3:44

couple of decades, we have right next to it

3:47

the bedfellow is gain of function. So Organic Consumers

3:49

Association writes this, the first human

3:51

H5N1 outbreak occurred in Hong Kong in

3:53

1997, the year

3:55

of what the British called the Hong

3:57

Kong handover, when sovereignty over Hong Kong

4:00

Hangover, I think it was supposed to say. I think

4:02

it's the Hong Kong hangover. Yep, go ahead. Okay.

4:05

Was it hangover? Was it hangover? Okay,

4:07

hangover. Hangover, yeah, from the UK to

4:09

China. It was during this politically sensitive

4:11

year that Kennedy Shortridge, an Australian scientist

4:13

who was the director of the World

4:15

Health Organization's reference laboratory at the University

4:17

of Hong Kong confirmed human cases of

4:19

highly pathogenic bird flu. It says in

4:21

this article, the LA Times reported, quote, the

4:23

H5 piece came from a virus and a

4:26

goose. The N1 piece came from a second

4:28

virus and a quail. The remaining flu genes

4:30

came from a third virus, also on a

4:32

quail. Shortridge had been studying how avian influenza

4:34

viruses spread in humans since 1975, prior

4:38

to discovering H5 and one Shortridge, eerily

4:40

predicted its emergence. Guy's studying it, he

4:42

predicts it's gonna happen. Says at the

4:45

time, the natural leap of flu directly

4:47

from poultry to humans was

4:49

thought to be so unlikely that scientists first

4:51

suspected contamination from Shortridge's lab was

4:54

the cause of the highly improbable

4:56

H5 N1 diagnosis. Unfortunately, we

4:58

didn't have alternative researchers, independent journalists

5:00

to dig into this because we

5:02

might've found something else. But now

5:05

this handoff comes from Shortridge, now

5:07

to two other scientists that

5:09

make a big splash here,

5:11

really in America. And this

5:13

is Yoshihiro Kawaka and Ron

5:15

Fauchet. And these researchers have

5:17

been doing straight up gain

5:19

of function work since 2011, and

5:22

they produce a paper and they say, hey,

5:24

we were able to soup this virus up,

5:26

this bird flu virus up so much that

5:28

it's now highly pathogenic in our lab, in

5:30

a ferret model, which is a substitute for

5:33

a human model. And they were

5:35

gonna publish the paper and the entire research community, most

5:37

of them said, we can't do this, it's way too

5:39

dangerous. Because other labs are gonna try to recreate this

5:41

and we might have a lab accident, or terrorists might

5:43

get this and do it. They published

5:45

it anyway, this was the paper they publish. Mutant

5:48

flu paper published, controversial study, shows how

5:50

dangerous form of avian influenza could evolve

5:53

in the wild. Now

5:55

it goes on to say, H5N1, commonly known as bird

5:57

flu, is a highly pathogenic and often lethal in humans.

6:00

but it cannot spread efficiently between people and cases

6:02

seem to be rare. Not

6:04

anymore. To find out if H5N1 could

6:06

evolve easily transmissibility

6:09

between humans, Kiawoka and his team

6:11

mutated a hemagglutinin, H-A gene, which

6:13

produces the protein that the virus

6:16

uses to stick itself to host

6:18

cells. The first hints of Kiawoka's

6:20

work emerged last year along with

6:22

details of similar experiments led by

6:24

Ron Fuchet at the Erasmus Medical

6:27

Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wow.

6:29

There's a commonality between these two individuals. They're

6:31

both creating these viruses that have

6:33

gained the ability to spread through

6:36

air between ferrets and they were

6:38

both funded by NIH under

6:41

Francis Collins and NIAID under

6:43

Anthony Fauci. They are funding

6:45

their research. So as

6:47

we know, as this story goes in 2013 and 2014, specifically,

6:51

there was a moratorium on gain of

6:53

research. Everything stopped because there was this

6:55

understanding in these reports that there's way

6:57

too many mishaps going on in these

6:59

labs that are working with these highly

7:01

pathogenic viruses. One of those mishaps was

7:04

a report from the CDC and

7:06

this is what this said here. It said,

7:09

sloppy practices by CDC scientists cited in lab

7:11

mishaps. So let's go into this. Again, this

7:13

was 2014. We have

7:15

a moratorium. It says the CDC investigation

7:17

found a wide range of serious lapses

7:20

and revealed additional flu research that was

7:22

jeopardized because of contaminated samples. The CDC

7:24

scientists may have even handled both the

7:26

benign strain of bird flu and the

7:28

dangerous H5N1 strain inside a biosafety cabinet

7:31

at the same time. The report concludes,

7:33

which would be a significant breach of

7:35

basic procedures that carries risks of

7:37

cross contaminating specimens. It

7:39

gets better. A contaminated sample of the

7:41

benign bird flu virus also was sent

7:44

to another CDC lab where it was

7:46

still being used in experiments more than

7:48

a month after the mistake was discovered

7:51

because nobody alerted that lab to the problem.

7:54

In addition, the CDC had also planned to

7:56

send a sample from the contaminated virus batch

7:58

to the infection disease department. at

8:00

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which

8:02

has a prestigious influenza research facility.

8:05

But now it goes on. We have

8:07

2017, the moratorium on gain of function

8:09

research is lifted, we

8:11

know how that goes with coronavirus

8:14

research, but Kai Waka's research

8:16

and Ron Foucher's research, they get the

8:18

green light again. This is 2019, science.org

8:21

says exclusive, controversial experiments that can make

8:24

bird flu more risky, poised to resume.

8:26

These are the gain of function projects

8:28

that were halted four years ago. And

8:31

so what happens there? Well, in

8:33

2019, Kai Waka's lab at

8:35

the University of Wisconsin actually has basically

8:38

an accident there while working with the

8:40

bird flu. It was chronicled in this

8:43

paper right here, in this editorial in

8:45

USA Today, lab created bird flu virus

8:47

accidents, show lax oversight of risky gain

8:49

of function research. So this is the

8:52

main story here with this bird flu

8:54

conversation. I mean, we keep talking about

8:56

it, but it's so much more serious.

8:59

I'm sure people are going, wow, this is like really getting the

9:01

weeds. I'm not sure how it affects me. Folks,

9:04

I mean, this is like potentially world

9:06

ending stuff. Like these people mess this

9:09

up. They give a function to a

9:11

virus that it never was going to

9:13

have naturally. And suddenly one of these

9:15

bozos gets a cough, carries it out,

9:17

you know, themselves or a mouse or

9:19

something or ships it in the freaking

9:21

mail. And now suddenly you have,

9:23

you know, a deadly

9:26

virus sweeping the world. And

9:29

we're just like, yeah, I suppose it could happen.

9:31

Oh yeah, it sounds like a lab leak in

9:33

Wuhan. That's what it was. And the next story,

9:36

like next story, these are the biggest stories of

9:38

our lifetime, people. This is the biggest issue. This

9:40

is literally like a nuclear weapon is being built

9:42

by a junior high student in the basement next

9:44

door and you don't know about it. What could

9:46

possibly go wrong?