by Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSite News:
The WHO said a new strain of bird flu jumped to humans for the first time and killed a man in Mexico, but Mexican authorities say the man died due to long-term diseases, and experts like Dr. Peter McCullough are pointing to gain-of-function research.
(LifeSiteNews) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said this week that a new strain of bird flu detected in humans for the first time has a “potential for high public health impact.”
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According to officials, a 59-year-old man in Mexico with “multiple underlying conditions,” who died after battling a weeklong illness, tested positive for H5N2, a strain of bird flu that has never been seen in humans. That strain is not the same as the H5N1 bird flu that was recently reported in U.S. dairy farms.
The man’s relatives said that he was bedridden for other reasons for three weeks before becoming infected, after which he suffered “fever, shortness of breath, diarrhea and nausea,” according to the Daily Mail.
While the WHO described the illness as a “confirmed fatal case of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N2) virus,” Mexico’s health ministry said the death was due to underlying conditions that led to septic shock, Reuters reported.
“The diseases were long-term and caused conditions that led to the failure of several organs,” the department said.
The WHO said it believes the virus poses a “low” risk to the general population, in part because in the past, “A(H5) viruses… have not acquired the ability to sustain transmission between humans.”
However, the global health body claimed that human infections with an influenza A virus or cases of human exposure to such a viral outbreak in animals make “necessary” “enhanced surveillance in potentially exposed human populations.”
