{"id":2269161,"date":"2024-06-16T21:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T01:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-cdc-director-gain-of-function-research-will-cause-bird-flu-pandemic-with-25-50-mortality-rate\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T01:34:09","slug":"trumps-cdc-director-gain-of-function-research-will-cause-bird-flu-pandemic-with-25-50-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-25-50-mortality-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s CDC Chief Warns: Gain of Function Research May Spark Bird Flu Pandemic, Killing 25-50%"},"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\">30<\/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-25-50-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=2269161&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 CDC Director, Dr. Robert Redfield, expressed serious concerns\u2062 about the potential for a deadly <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 during an interview with NewsNation. He highlighted \u2063that this \u2064is not a question of &#8220;if&#8221; but &#8220;when&#8221; the outbreak will occur. Dr. Redfield warned that bird flu could have \u2063a mortality rate between 25%-50% when it affects\u2062 humans. He noted a progressive \u200dincrease 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 poultry \u200clike \u200dchickens,\u200b ducks, and turkeys\u2064 in the United States since \u20642019, and explained that the virus has spread to 27 mammal species in the country. Dr. Redfield \u2064emphasized the critical situation,\u2064 pointing out that scientists understand the process needed for\u2063 bird flu to transmit \u200bbetween humans,\u2062 referencing\u200d laboratory experiments conducted in 2012. This underscores \u2064the urgency and potential risk\u2063 of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientists-want-feds-to-impose-stricter-regs-for-research-into-pathogens\/\" title=\"Scientists Want Feds To Impose Stricter Regs For Research Into Pathogens\">human pandemic<\/a> \u2064if the virus adapts sufficiently to spread\u200c from \u2063person to person.  <\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-cdc-director-gain-of-function-research-will-cause-bird-flu-pandemic-with-50-mortality-rate\/\" title=\"Trump's CDC Chief Warns: Gain of Function Research Risks Bird Flu Pandemic with 50% Death Rate\">make bird flu highly infectious<\/a> 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":2269162,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/2269161","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=2269161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}