China’s Cover-Up of Human Cases of the Deadly Bird Flu

The truth is, there's a deadly outbreak in China, but the Chinese government refuses to tell people what it is. After some research, I believe a deadly avian flu is contributing to China's massive deaths. Today, a science news portal, Fisk.org, they had an article today, and it's called, it's saying that H5N1 bird flu is a looming global health threat. I believe it's time for the world to take China's outbreak seriously and recognize that the Chinese government has been covering up human infections of the deadly H5 avian flu. Well, there's H1N1, various different types of avian flu, but the deadliest for humans is the H5N1. So H5 type avian flu typically spreads among birds and poultry, posing minimal threat to humans. However, in 2024, an unusual event occurred in the United States. A new strain of H5N1 began spreading among dairy cows. Ordinarily, an H5N1 outbreak is accompanied by mass deaths of wild birds and poultry. However, this time, there was no such warning. Instead, the virus silently appeared in cattle and spread among them. However, the concern is growing now because the virus has spread to domestic animals like cats, as well as other mammals, even lions. So H5N1 is highly lethal to humans with a 50% fatality rate, meaning one in two infected individuals dies. The greatest concern is that if H5N1 mutates to spread easily among humans, it could trigger a global pandemic with an extremely high fatality rate. It means that a mass number of people will die. H5 type bird flu hit multiple Chinese provinces, including Shandong, Henan, Hebei in January, and has been spreading since. For in Shanghai, people suddenly discovered that live poultry sales have been banned until the end of 2027. And the decision to shut down all live poultry markets across the city has sparked widespread speculation if the authorities are concerned with human infections. People are not just worried about the shortages of eggs and chicken, but rather the fear that the virus may mutate from infecting only animals to humans. And human infections have indeed broke out. Shaanxi province became the epicenter where human infections skyrocketed. On February 11th, an employee from China's CDC privately confirmed that human H5N1 infections had been detected in Shaanxi, but he refused to disclose the exact number of infections or deaths. However, in Thailand, a Thai health news source had reported the leaked details. And according to a staff member at the Shaanxi CDC, the province has seen 2,000 confirmed human infections and 300 deaths caused by H5N1 infections so far. Now, this was also reported by Chinascope, which is a news portal dedicated to China news. Although CCP controlled media has remained completely quiet, observers tracking local Shaanxi reports noticed that since mid-January, disease control centers across the province have been going all out conducting, quote-unquote, human avian influenza surveillance programs. And in mid-January, the Chinese edition of the Epoch Times interviewed an insider working for, I think, Chinese epidemic control organization. This person remained anonymous, but he confirmed that he had personally encountered over 100 human cases of H5N1, and fatality rate, according to him, was as high as 68%, meaning that out of 100 infected people, nearly 70 had died. He also reviewed that China's current vaccine development efforts are primarily focused on H5N1. He said there are multiple respiratory diseases circulating right now, collectively referred to as X disease. If you see an outbreak, consider the possibilities of a COVID variant, human metapneumovirus, or H5N1. He said without a doubt, H5N1 is going to be one of the most formidable viruses in the future. And he said H5N1 is already spreading on a large scale, and it's basically out of control. The authorities will announce it soon. The same person disclosed that multiple provinces in China have quietly prepared new quarantine facilities, infamously known as the makeshift quarantine camps. The CCP built large numbers of quarantine camps during their COVID days. The truth is, they never disappeared completely, and are waiting to be reopened for the next wave, for the next pandemic to arrive. He said the government is afraid that mass panic will disrupt the economy, and that foreign media will criticize them, so they are avoiding high-profile countermeasures. It's obvious that Beijing is quietly preparing for an escalating H5N1 crisis, while deliberately downplaying the severity to avoid public panic. However, covering up the outbreak has consequences. It has been reported that Chinese farmers continue to sell infected animals. A poetry farm from Jiangsu told the Epoch Times that 10 farms in his town had been hit by avian flu, but instead of culling the infected birds, they sold the sick birds into the market, because no public health officials tried to even intervene. Now, so how is the CCP going to handle it? Well, beyond covering up the outbreaks, Beijing is also suppressing information about human cases of H5N1 infections. On January 16th, a synopsis of a decade-old research paper on H5N1 briefly appeared on Chinese social media. Somebody posted an old research paper that was originally published in 2014 and was written by a leading expert in animal infectious diseases, Professor Liu Xiufan at Yangzhou University. However, shortly after the paper was posted on social media, the download page returned to 404. Not only that, not only the page was unsearchable, the synopsis was also removed. So basically, this old research paper on H5N1 from a decade ago, it was an old paper, suddenly became a banned document in China. Then according to a full copy of the paper obtained by the Epoch Times from sources inside China, the first paragraph of the paper revealed three critical pieces of information. The first one says H5N1 first broke out in 1996 among geese in Guangdong, China. And the second is the virus later spread to 63 countries and regions across Asia, Europe, and Africa. Between 2003 and 2004, 16 countries reported a total of 667 confirmed human cases with 393 deaths. So the global fatality rate during that time for H5N1 was as high as 58.9%. So it's obvious that the paper was banned in China because it confirmed that H5N1 first broke out in China and spread to 63 countries. He also confirmed that it's seriously deadly. So the CCP doesn't want those pieces of information to be disclosed to the public. So the CCP not only builds quarantine camps, deletes research paper, it's also laying the groundwork to shift the blame. While state media remains silent on China's outbreaks, CCTV has been actively reporting on avian flu outbreaks in other countries, including South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. The Chinese media also reported the Chinese government's strict measures, such as import bans on foreign animals, to be proactive. So for example, when Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, reported an H5N1 outbreak to the World Organization for Animal Health earlier this year, the CCP's General Administration of Customs and Ministry of Agriculture immediately issued a directive to ban poultry imports from Puerto Rico to prevent the virus from entering China. However, no similar announcements or anything were made regarding the outbreak spreading in China. Recently, China's state-run CCTV aired a report citing a former WHO spokesperson who claimed that since the United States withdrew from the WHO, information sharing about avian flu has become more challenging. CCTV used this report to highlight the fact that the United States has nearly over 97% of the H5N1 human cases reported in the world. So it seems that the U.S. has almost all of the world's human cases of H5N1, and China isn't anywhere near the U.S. in terms of the scale of the problem. So this is classic CCP propaganda, right? A blame-shifting tactic. So it completely ignores the thousands of human cases within China. It only reports U.S. infection numbers. It cites a WHO statement to sound official, credible, or even neutral. And when the outbreak in China can no longer be covered up, guess what? The CCP will blame the United States for the global H5N1 crisis. On February 27th, the CCP's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council issued a notice that instructed local government to proactively prepare for spring epidemic control and strengthen monitoring of acute respiratory infections and surveillance of COVID-19. That's standard language, but most importantly, that notice admitted the emergence of new infectious diseases, including monkeypox and human cases of avian influenza. This means the government has been forced to acknowledge human H5N1 cases, but they refused to disclose key details, right? And then they deliberately used vague language to imply that it's not serious. Meanwhile, in Shanghai, hospitals have begun requiring patients to report any history of contact with poultry. A Shanghai patient shared his experience online when he visited an emergency room on February 16th. He noticed a sign at the hospital. It lists four key conditions that patients must report to medical staff immediately. The first is if they have any contact with poultry within the last 10 days. Number two is if they had mosquito bites. Number three is if they had contact with confirmed COVID cases. And then they also have to report if they took international travels. So these screening measures suggest that the hospitals are already on alert for human H5N1 infections, despite the government's attempt to minimize public concern.