Bird Flu Uncovered: The Silent Threat Lurking in Our Backyards and How You Can Outsmart It Today
A pandemic triggered by a bird flu virus could leave hundreds of millions dead. “An influenza pandemic of even moderate impact,” Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, wrote, “will result in the biggest single human disaster ever—far greater than AIDS, 9/11, all wars in the 20th century and the recent tsunami combined. It has the potential to redirect world history as the Black Death redirected European history in the 14th century.”1 Hopefully, for humanity’s sake, the direction world history will take is away from raising birds by the billions under intensive confinement so as to potentially lower the risk of us ever being in this same precarious place in the future. The silver lining of COVID-19 is that the world will be better prepared for the next global health crisis. Tragically, it may take a pandemic with a virus like H5N1 before the world realizes the true cost of cheap chicken.
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