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Mass vaccination of poultry outside the United States for highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (HPAI) should be considered among the top reasons for the greater spread and severity of the virus. This important issue of the Report will explain how this poultry industry practice has backfired and likely created the problem we are seeing today. It turns out that Asian countries have deployed vaccines since 1995, and China started vaccinating poultry in 2004. In the same year, the US had its first outbreak of H5N2 avian influenza in over 20 years.
“On 17 February 2004, the state of Texas reported the detection of a type A influenza virus from chickens. On 1 March 2004, National Veterinary Services Laboratories announced the results of the chicken pathogenicity test that showed the virus as being avirulent (benign) for chickens; the chickens remained healthy throughout the 10-day observation period.”
From 2003-2005, wild birds spread the HPAI H5N1 virus to poultry in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, and the Spike protein or hemagglutinin on the viral surface diversified into numerous clades (related groups), and viruses reassorted into multiple genetic lineages (genotypes) that were detected around the world. It was quickly determined that poultry vaccination was causing worsened viral spread, as published by Jane Parry.
Guyonnet et al, published a review in 2020 which disclosed that five major types of vaccines have been used in chickens including gene transfer products similar to the disastrous Pfizer and Moderna mRNA used in humans.
“The antigenic variation of the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) surface glycoproteins occurs at a high frequency through minor “drift” changes and may be associated with the immune pressure exerted by the vaccination of birds…[avian influenza (AI)] during the period January 2013–February 2019 resulted in the loss of approximately 128 million birds, with more than half (57.6%) of the reported losses in Asia, followed by the Americas (22.1%) and Europe (13.4%). Countries with official AI vaccination programs are Mexico, Egypt, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Russia. China also has an official AI vaccination. Vaccination is also allowed in Bangladesh, where import permits are delivered to the private sector and killed AI vaccines are imported (no combination vaccines used). Vietnam, Egypt, and Indonesia have transitioned from mass vaccination to targeted vaccination ( OFFLU, 2013). The cost of AI vaccination is often shared between governments and the private sector.”
In countries that do not vaccinate poultry, flock outbreaks are managed by culling (extermination) supported by government subsidies. Among the big poultry producers, there appears to be no attempt to allow natural immunity from infection to take effect in bird populations.
Vaccination likely has backfired and may have been the artificial introduction of H5N1 Bird Flu into farming operations and the food supply. France was the first European country to introduce it on October 1, 2023, since the new EU legal norm came into force. The vaccination is controversial because it does not prevent the virus from multiplying 100 percent. Anyone who imports vaccinated chickens cannot be sure that they are not also importing the virus unnoticed. At least this risk exists, and for precisely these reasons, the USA and Japan immediately stopped imports of ducks from France on October 2, 2023. France conducted a mass vaccination campaign in poultry against H5N1 Bird Flu with Boehringer vaccines back in late 2023, prompting the USDA APHIS to ban the import of all poultry vaccinated against H5N1 due to shedding concerns and generation of new variants. In January of 2024, an H5N1 outbreak occurred at a fully vaccinated duck farm in France shortly after the mandatory duck vaccination campaign. A new study by Li et al has demonstrated that poultry vaccination against H5N1 avian influenza results in faster evolution, which can lead to more resistant strains. There appears to be no way of “getting ahead” of avian influenza with vaccination and the goal of extermination of the virus is foolhardy, expensive, and potentially dangerous.
Non-sterilizing vaccines for chickens have long been understood to be dangerous with respect to Marek’s Disease. Read et al concluded that poultry vaccination backfired and created more fit strains of the virus that are more likely to survive and infect more birds. “Here we show experimentally that immunization of chickens against Marek’s disease virus enhances the fitness of more virulent strains, making it possible for hyper-pathogenic strains to transmit.” To our knowledge, there is no vaccination of poultry in the US and Canada.
In this issue of the Report, we focus on avian influenza among other issues of the week starting out with Dr McCullough hosted by Emerald Robinson then an exclusive conversation between best-selling author and historian John Leake and Dr. McCullough.
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