The United States Department of Agriculture has confirmed bird flu in rats for the first time. Four black rats were confirmed to have H5N1 avian flu in late January in Riverside County, California, where two recent poultry outbreaks were reported, the agency said.
According to a CBS News report, officials have previously confirmed the virus in mice found on affected farms. The agency’s latest update also included other infected mammals in locations around the country, including a harbor seal in Massachusetts, a fox in North Dakota, a bobcat in Washington state, and a domestic cat in Oregon. Officials said the cat infection is likely related to a recent report of two pets from Multnomah County that were sickened after eating raw pet food contaminated with the virus.
“Although several positions supporting [highly pathogenic avian influenza] were notified of their terminations over the weekend, we are working to swiftly rectify the situation and rescind those letters,” the USDA said in a statement to CBS News.
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The agency said several types of workers, including veterinarians and other emergency response personnel, had been exempted from job cuts so that they could continue to work on the USDA’s effort to deal with bird flu. The agency said it “continues to prioritize the response to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).”
Since the H5N1 strain of the bird flu began spreading in the U.S. in 2022, about 148 million birds on poultry farms have been euthanized to prevent additional infections, which has caused egg prices to spike. In March 2024, the illness was found in dairy cows for the first time, while almost 70 human cases have been identified, mostly in dairy and poultry workers. So far, one person, a Louisiana resident, has died from the virus. –CBS News
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This is just in time for the ruling class to send out vaccines for birds and other animals to “prevent” the spread of the bird flu.
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Bird flu in rats? Confirmed how? Using the PCR test that we know will give you any result you want just by increasing the iterations of the test? So let’s kill all the rats now to prevent the spread of nothing at all…
does that include the ones in Washington and Ottawa?
You have a clue. This is what the scamdemic is about. What is never brought out in the news is that a PCR test does not indicate infection. Most of us carry hundreds or thousands of viruses in our bodies at any give time. If you are older the number is much higher. PCR tests indicate presence. Its nothing but the medical equivalent of Fake News. And, like you say, they can run multiple iterations to show ANYTHING THEY WANT. Just like the last scamdemict, this is all bullshit.
It would seem that Trump and Elon are razing the current federal apparatus by firing everyone to make way for “efficient” AI governance (i.e. government by machine, or techno-communism). Clearly, the tear-down phase of this project is underway, but once it has been completed the implementation of AI infrastructure will begin. To distract Americans from this final operation, I suspect they’ll need another scam (or scamdemic) to pull it off. And that’s where the ubiquitous bird flu scam could come into play.
Right now it’s on the outer periphery of the mainstream news with most people barely noticing it. But it looks like they’re planting the seeds for it with everything from chickens, pigs, cows, humans and now even rats supposedly vulnerable to getting “bird flu.” It’s certainly something to watch going forward.