{"id":2269127,"date":"2024-06-16T19:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T23:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-cdc-director-gain-of-function-research-will-cause-bird-flu-pandemic-with-50-mortality-rate\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T20:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T00:01:37","slug":"trumps-cdc-director-gain-of-function-research-will-cause-bird-flu-pandemic-with-50-mortality-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-cdc-director-gain-of-function-research-will-cause-bird-flu-pandemic-with-50-mortality-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s CDC Chief Warns: Gain of Function Research Risks Bird Flu Pandemic with 50% Death Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-cdc-director-gain-of-function-research-will-cause-bird-flu-pandemic-with-50-mortality-rate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2269127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s CDC Director,\u2064 Dr. Robert Redfield, expressed increasing concern about a potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-china-downplays-first-human-case-of-h10n3-bird-flu-risk-of-large-scale-spread-is-low\/\" title=\"BREAKING: China Downplays First Human Case Of H10N3 Bird Flu, \u2018Risk Of Large-Scale Spread Is Low\u2019\">bird flu<\/a> pandemic with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-budget-proposal-refers-to-mothers-as-birthing-people\/\" title=\"Biden Budget Proposal Refers To Mothers As \u2018Birthing People\u2019\">high <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-continuous-media-covid-fear-mongering-may-backfire-and-diminish-democrat-voter-turnout\/\" title=\"The Continuous Media COVID Fear Mongering May BACKFIRE and Diminish Democrat Voter Turnout\">mortality rate<\/a><\/a> during an interview with NewsNation. Dr. Redfield emphasized that it is a matter of &#8220;when&#8221; \u200drather than &#8220;if&#8221; a bird flu pandemic will occur in humans, citing a mortality rate between 25%-50%. He pointed out \u2062that since 2019, there has been a progressive\u200c increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-bird-flu-cases-reported-in-iowa-joining-3-other-states-as-disease-resurfaces\/\" title=\"Bird flu resurfaces in Iowa, adding to cases in 3 other states.\">bird flu cases<\/a> among chickens, ducks,\u200b and turkeys in the U.S., which has now spread to 27 different \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-mass-extinction-fraud\/\" title=\"The Mass Extinction Fraud\">mammal species<\/a> in the country. Dr. Redfield\u2019s alarm is accentuated by the fact that scientists understand how bird flu can become infectious to humans and transmit from person to person, referencing\u2063 experiments\u200b conducted in 2012.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s CDC Director warned during an interview over the weekend that he is becoming increasingly concerned about a deadly bird flu pandemic erupting that will likely have a high mortality rate.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robert Redfield said during an interview with NewsNation that he believes it\u2019s a matter of \u201cwhen\u201d and not \u201cif\u201d there will be a bird flu pandemic in humans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, bird flu, when it does enter humans, has a significant mortality, probably somewhere between 25%-50% mortality,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it\u2019s going to be quite complicated. Since 2019, we\u2019ve had a progressive increase in bird flu in chickens and ducks and turkeys in our country. And since then, you\u2019ve seen it now go into a number of mammals. It\u2019s now in 27 mammals in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing why it\u2019s important to note the the disease is spreading to other mammals, he said: \u201cWe know exactly what has to happen for bird flu to be infectious for humans and go human-to-human. Scientists in 2012 actually did experiments in the lab using gain of function research, which I\u2019m not in favor of, but the scientists did it. And they figured the five amino acids that have to change in the key receptor in order for bird flu, to gain a propensity to bind to the human receptor, and then be able to go human-to-human, something that obviously happened with COVID, where COVID, obviously, learned how to use the H2 receptor in humans and of course, became a very infectious virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that bird flu will be transmitted from person to person \u201cthrough aerosols and droplets\u201d. He said that he is worried that a pandemic will happen because the virus will become contagious because of lab experiments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, the five amino acid changes is a huge, huge species barrier,\u201d he said. \u201cSo who knows how long that will take but as it goes into more and more different mammals, it\u2019s changing, its use of receptors, it\u2019s changing, it\u2019s learning to how to use different receptors for dolphins and seals. And it\u2019s learning how to use receptors in bears and polar bears and foxes and raccoons and cats. So it\u2019s going through a lot of changes and it\u2019s, as it picks up some of these new receptors, it can get closer and closer to humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that he was concerned about the virus spreading to cattle because cattle are often in close proximity to pigs and viruses jump easily from pigs to humans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m less concerned, though, that this will happen through spillover and evolution in animals,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m much more concerned that this will happen in the laboratory, through gain of functional research. I can create this virus, literally in weeks to months by using gain of function research. I know exactly what amino acids I have to change because in 2012, against my recommendation, the scientists that did these experiments actually published them. So the recipe for how to make bird flu highly infectious for humans is already out there. All you have to do is look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump&#8217;s CDC Director, Dr. Robert Redfield, expressed growing concerns in a NewsNation interview about an imminent deadly bird flu pandemic with a high mortality rate. He emphasized that it&#8217;s a question of &#8220;when,&#8221; not &#8220;if,&#8221; such an outbreak will occur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2269128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/03\/Redfield.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/03\/Redfield.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}