Bird Flu Uncovered: The Silent Threat Lurking in Our Backyards and How You Can Outsmart It Today
In the United States in January 2025 alone, approximately 20 million commercially-raised birds, mostly egg-laying hens, were affected by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1). These numbers are staggering yet barely scratch the surface of a potentially larger threat looming over the country. If action is not taken now, the next pandemic could be far deadlier than the 1918 influenza and COVID-19.
What Was the 1918 Influenza?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “The 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people in less time than any other disease before or since”; it was the “most deadly disease event in the history of humanity.” Indeed, it killed more people in a single year than the bubonic plague—the “black death”—in the Middle Ages killed in a century. The 1918 virus also killed more people in twenty-five weeks than AIDS killed in twenty-five years. According to one academic reviewer, this “single, brief epidemic generated more fatalities, more suffering, and more demographic change in the United States than all the wars of the Twentieth Century.”
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