by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
We are living in an era of endless disasters. Over the past several years, we have been hit with one thing after another, and the pace of events seems to have picked up steam in 2024. Just think of all the things we have seen in recent days. There was the historic terror attack in Russia, then the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed, and then Israel’s strike on a building right next to Iran’s embassy in Damascus threatened to spark a major regional war. Less than 24 hours ago, a catastrophic earthquake hit Taiwan, but that is already starting to fade from the news cycle because so much else is happening right now.
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In this article, I want to focus on two things: pestilences and earthquakes.
The bird flu plague has already killed millions upon millions of birds all over the planet, but now it has made a major resurgence in the United States.
In fact, the largest egg producer in the U.S. is “temporarily” closing a facility in Texas due to a local outbreak…
The largest producer of fresh eggs in the United States says it has temporarily closed one of its facilities in Texas after highly pathogenic avian influenza, otherwise known as H5N1 bird flu, wiped out nearly two million birds.
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said one of its facilities in Parmer County “tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, resulting in depopulation of approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, or approximately 3.6% of the Company’s total flock as of March 2, 2024.”
Just like that, nearly two million more birds are gone.
Egg prices have already been spiking, and we are being warned that they will soon go up even more…
Egg prices have now been steadily rising for months, and your omelette could become even more expensive as poultry farms around the country deal with an outbreak of bird flu.
The average price of a dozen Grade A large eggs was $3 in February, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, up from around $2 in the fall.
Alarmingly, this time around it isn’t just birds that are catching the disease.
The USDA is telling us that dairy cows in several U.S. states have been recently infected…
Bird flu has been confirmed in dairy cows across several states, with the USDA saying Monday it has been found in New Mexico and five additional herds in Texas.
In addition, we have learned that “three pet cats” in Texas have died after catching the bird flu…
Meanwhile, three pet cats have died from bird flu after catching the disease on dairy farms in Texas, according to reports — as fears are raised that infected animals living near humans could spread the disease to people.
Mammals all over the globe have started to get infected, but up until now the bird flu has not posed a serious threat to humans.
Is that about to change?
A dairy worker in Texas has tested positive for H5N1, and that represents only the second case ever recorded in the United States…
A Texas dairy worker has tested positive for the avian flu, marking the first identified human case of an illness in the U.S. that has sickened cattle across several states over the past few weeks.
The infection, only the second human case of H5N1 ever recorded in the country, is worrying public health experts who for decades have cautioned that avian flu could pose a serious threat.
Hopefully this will turn out to be just an isolated incident.
But the CDC is telling us that testing has shown that H5N1 has mutated into a form that could potentially spread more easily among people…
The strain of bird flu that infected a person in Texas has mutated to spread more easily, officials say — amid growing alarm the disease could spread to more people.
The CDC said tests on the H5N1 sample showed it had a mutation that was ‘known to be associated with viral adaptation to mammalian hosts’ – but insisted the mutations were minor and the overall risk to the public was low.
This is a bombshell.
If H5N1 starts spreading from person to person on a widespread basis, that will be far more serious than anything that we have experienced over the last several years.
I hope that you understand what I am saying.
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