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Bird Flu Research Explodes 1,000% Worldwide—WHO, CDC, and EcoHealth Lead Rapid Expansion: ‘Journal of Infection and Public Health’. It’s Beyond Ridiculous and Has Been for A Long Time Now!

Bird flu publications skyrocket from fewer than 10 papers a year before 2010 to over 50 in 2025—with output expected to hit 111 by 2030, a tenfold surge.

A new Journal of Infection and Public Health paper published this month by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) scientists reveals an unprecedented rise in bird flu–related research worldwide—and predicts that publications on avian influenza will nearly double by 2030, marking what the authors call “accelerating growth” in the field.

The data show that bird flu research output has exploded from fewer than 10 papers a year before 2010 to over 50 in 2025, with the authors projecting a jump to 111 by 2030—a tenfold surge in just two decades, signaling that bird flu has quietly become one of the fastest-expanding areas of global pathogen research.

The figures are based on data from Scopus, a global scientific database that includes most journals indexed in PubMed but extends far beyond biomedical research to cover environmental, veterinary, and policy studies.

This makes Scopus the broadest available measure of the worldwide surge in bird flu–related publications.

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The revelation comes as this website has, for years, been raising alarms over the quiet expansion of international bird flu experiments and bird flu pandemic response infrastructure.

The new study, titled “Avian Influenza Research Through the Lens of One Health: A Bibliometric Study” (Elsevier, 2025), analyzed 315 publications on avian influenza between 2000 and 2025 and found that research has exploded since 2018.

The authors expect the trend to continue exponentially over the next five years.

Using a third-degree polynomial model, the team projected that the number of publications will grow from 62 in 2026 to 111 by 2030, with an R² of 0.93 indicating a strong upward trajectory.

“A marked increase occurred after 2018… Forecasts suggest continued growth, with the number of publications expected to rise from 62 in 2026 to 111 in 2030, reflecting increasing research interest and recognition” the paper reads.

The Post-2018 Acceleration

The new study identifies 2018 as the tipping point when H5N1 and One Health publications began to surge.

That timeline aligns with several key developments:

• The 2018–2019 launch of the WHO–FAO–OIE–UN pandemic coordination framework under “One Health.”
• The rollout of avian influenza vaccination programs in China, which reshaped global research priorities.
• The resurgence of EcoHealth Alliance’s field work and U.S. government contracts related to avian flu viruses.

By 2025, the publication rate had risen to 56 papers per year—the highest in two decades

WHO, CDC, and EcoHealth at the Center of the Growth

According to the paper’s institutional data, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leads the world in bird flu and One Health research output, followed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and EcoHealth Alliance.

EcoHealth is the same organization whose NIH-funded work in Wuhan has been at the center of worldwide controversy over gain-of-function experiments.

Table 1 lists the CDC as having the highest number of publications (13) with 271 citations, followed by the World Health Organization (WHO) (11 publications) and EcoHealth Alliance (8 publications).

In other words, the primary institutions steering the One Health–avian influenza research ecosystem are the same ones historically involved in dual-use virology, pandemic simulation, and cross-species virus manipulation projects.

‘Enhanced Cross-Sectoral Collaboration’—A Code for Expansion

The authors conclude by urging the global scientific community to strengthen “cross-sectoral collaboration” and “sustained surveillance” in poultry and wild birds, warning against “undetected transmission chains in resource-limited settings.”

While framed as disease prevention, this language mirrors the same pandemic-preparedness justification that has fueled massive funding surges into high-containment labs (BSL-2 and BSL-3) and pathogen collection networks around the world.

The study’s repeated emphasis on “biosecurity,” “interdisciplinary cooperation,” and One Health “integration” signals that governments and international bodies are institutionalizing H5N1 work as a standing global priority, not a short-term emergency response.

Normalizing a Permanent Bird Flu Research Pipeline

The study’s authors celebrate this acceleration as a sign of “increasing research interest and recognition.”

But for many observers, it represents something far more concerning—the normalization of a permanent, internationally coordinated pandemic creation and response regime built around H5N1 bird flu.

The report openly ties its findings to global governance structures such as the WHO and the United Nations, stating that the One Health framework is essential for “multisectoral collaboration” and for guiding “policy and research agendas” on avian influenza.

In effect, the paper documents the institutionalization of bird flu research as a permanent fixture of global biosecurity policy—a shift that blurs the line between public health and biodefense, and raises serious questions about how far these programs will go.

Bottom Line

The new Journal of Infection and Public Health study confirms what many have suspected: since 2018, there has been a coordinated expansion of avian influenza research worldwide.

WHO, CDC, and EcoHealth Alliance are leading the charge, and the scientific community now projects that output to double by 2030.

Behind the rhetoric of “One Health” and “collaboration” lies a long-term global infrastructure for studying, modifying, and surveilling avian viruses — one that could easily serve both pandemic prevention and pandemic creation agendas.

The normalization of this permanent H5N1 research pipeline marks the next chapter in the international “pandemic preparedness” agenda — and the public deserves to understand what’s being built, and why.

HHS Builds $37.5M Bird Flu Pandemic Hospital Network—75 Facilities to Serve as Federal ‘Special Pathogen’ Centers

Internal NETEC document confirms H5N1 avian influenza preparedness at the core mission of new taxpayer funded hospital network.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), is funding a $37.5 million national hospital expansion to prepare for H5N1 bird flu and other high-consequence pathogens, according to a newly released internal federal document issued by the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC).

NIH and NIAID—which are under HHS, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—are funding experiments that create brand new bird flu pathogens, raising conflict of interest worries as well as questions about the government’s motives (see list of articles below this article detailing these many experiments).

NIAID chief Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger is directing U.S. tax dollars toward bird flu reverse genetics experiments while holding a patent for the carcinogenic BPL-based bird flu jab at the center of the Trump administration’s $500 million ‘Generation Gold Standard’ program—funding both the problem and the patented solution.

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The new document—an internal Request for Proposal (RFP) dated October 15, 2025—details how HHS will use NETEC, a consortium of Emory University, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, to distribute federal funds to 75 hospitals across the United States, converting them into federally designated “Level 2 Special Pathogen Treatment Centers” (SPTCs).

Each facility is eligible to receive $500,000 under the ASPR-funded NSPS Level 2 Special Pathogen Treatment and Network Development (STAND) Award.

The RFP’s stated purpose is to “accelerate the domestic health care system’s readiness for [high-consequence infectious diseases], such as H5N1, Ebola, and others.”

Per the document:

“Under the guidance of ASPR, NETEC is now awarding $37,500,000 in funding to 75 facilities ($500,000 per facility) as they work to meet the requirements of NSPS Level 2 facilities. The funding will support activities such as training health care personnel, upgrading infrastructure, and acquiring specialized equipment to ensure Level 2 facilities meet NSPS minimum capabilities. These efforts are expected to ultimately result in the verification of funded facilities as Level 2 SPTCs. This expansion significantly enhances the nation’s surge capacity and geographic reach for managing HCIDs.”

The move comes as governments all over the world say they are creating hybrid bird flu viruses in biolabs, raising national security fears of another pandemic, whether intentional or accidental.

Those same countries ramp up bird flu vaccine production and distribution.

Meaning, once again, governments are creating both the problem and “solution” to another pandemic, raising conflict-of-interest worries.

Congress, the White House, the Department of Energy, the FBI, the CIA, and Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) have confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of lab-engineered pathogen manipulation.

H5N1 Avian Influenza Explicitly Listed as a Federal Priority

While the public press release announcing the grant avoided mentioning bird flu, the internal NETEC RFP directly names H5N1 avian influenza as a top threat driving the new hospital buildout.

“The emergence and sustained transmission of HCIDs, such as Ebola, mpox, and avian influenza (H5N1), have overwhelmed hospitals, exhausted critical resources, and underscored the necessity for coordinated efforts to protect health care workers while ensuring the delivery of safe and effective patient care.”

This wording makes clear that H5N1 preparedness—not just general infectious disease readiness—is a central justification for the $37.5 million initiative.

Federal Pandemic Infrastructure Expansion

Under ASPR’s direction, NETEC will administer the new program as part of the National Special Pathogen System (NSPS)—a tiered national network of pathogen treatment centers first created after the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak.

The new Level 2 centers are described as “the backbone of a resilient, skilled response to special pathogen threats,” designed to serve as regional treatment hubs capable of handling clusters of patients during future high-consequence disease outbreaks.

The funding will support:

• Upgrading isolation infrastructure,
• Purchasing specialized containment equipment,
• Training staff in special pathogen protocols, and
• Coordinating with existing Level 1 Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Centers (RESPTCs).

Awardees must demonstrate “substantial progress towards meeting the minimum capabilities of a Level 2 NSPS facility” by the end of the funding period.

‘Level 2’ Centers Will Treat Patients for the Duration of Illness

Each Level 2 facility, the RFP explains, must have “the capacity to deliver specialized care to clusters of patients suspected of or infected by a special pathogen” and “serve as the primary patient care delivery center.”

Notably, funded hospitals must also agree to:

“Serve as regional and national assets and accept patients from outside of the United States or outside their respective state, county, or local jurisdiction if requested.”

That clause effectively integrates participating hospitals into the federal pandemic command structure under ASPR oversight, expanding the U.S. government’s ability to move special pathogen cases across state or national lines.

Institutionalization of Permanent Biosecurity Infrastructure

The NETEC RFP uses unmistakable national security language, describing high-consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs) as threats to “the nation’s health, economy, and national security.”

It emphasizes what it characterizes as the need for “enhanced biosecurity frameworks, robust clinical readiness, and surge capacity across hospitals,” positioning the Level 2 expansion as a cornerstone of HHS’s long-term pandemic preparedness architecture.

The RFP even notes that NETEC “has demonstrated its critical role in strengthening national health security by coordinating National Special Pathogen System responses to novel respiratory pathogens, mpox, and Lassa fever.”

In other words, the federal government is now formally embedding outbreak containment systems inside civilian hospitals, justified by avian influenza and other potential zoonotic spillover threats.

Timeline & Implementation

Applications for the NSPS Level 2 STAND Award opened October 15, 2025, and close December 2, 2025.

Final selections are expected by January 5, 2026, with the official “period of performance” scheduled from January 5 through June 29, 2026.

Eligible applicants must have:

• An onsite emergency department,
• Airborne infection isolation rooms,
• Critical care and inpatient capacity, and
• A sufficient baseline of resources to achieve Level 2 verification.

The RFP explicitly prohibits use of the funds for direct clinical care or research—focusing instead on infrastructure, staff training, and equipment acquisition.

From COVID Lessons to Bird Flu Systems

NETEC was originally established in 2015 after the U.S. treated imported Ebola cases.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it served as a national training and coordination body for pathogen response across hospitals.

Now, under ASPR’s expanded authority, NETEC’s mission has evolved from temporary outbreak response to permanent pandemic infrastructure building, with H5N1 preparedness front and center.

The RFP states that the expansion “significantly enhances the nation’s surge capacity and geographic reach for managing HCIDs,” embedding what amounts to federally funded containment capacity across the entire U.S. hospital network.

Bottom Line

The internal NETEC document reveals that HHS’s Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) is quietly constructing a nationwide bird flu hospital network under the banner of “special pathogen preparedness.”

The $37.5 million program explicitly cites H5N1 avian influenza as a primary threat and converts 75 hospitals into federally integrated treatment hubs for future high-risk pathogen outbreaks.

This marks yet another major escalation in the institutionalization of permanent pandemic infrastructure inside the United States, built through administrative expansion under the HHS biosecurity apparatus.

NIH-Funded Mount Sinai Scientists Engineer New Bird Flu Franken-Virus Chimera in New York: Journal ‘Vaccine’

Peer-reviewed study confirms reverse-genetics construction of a synthetic avian–human influenza hybrid in New York City through $150 million gov’t contract.

A new Vaccine journal study published earlier this month reveals that scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have engineered a synthetic chimeric bird flu virus by splicing genetic segments from multiple influenza strains—avian, human, and laboratory-adapted—into a single live construct grown in chicken eggs.

The risky work was done in the name of “vaccine development,” exposing how, time and again, vaccine production serves as a legal and moral shield for the same dual-use genetic manipulation routinely used to create potential bioweapons.

The project was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is led by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

The bird flu experiment raises national security concerns, given that Congress, the White House, the Department of Energy, the FBI, the CIA, and Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) have confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of lab-engineered pathogen manipulation.

Countries all over the world are quietly performing dangerous gain-of-function-like bioweapons experiments on bird flu pathogens while simultaneously developing bird flu countermeasures like vaccines and antivirals, raising conflict-of-interest worries.

The new lab-made bird flu virus, named cH15/3HK14N2HK14, was assembled through reverse genetics, a technique that builds a fully functional virus from cloned DNA.

The team was led by Dr. Florian Krammer and Dr. Eduard Puente-Massaguer, both of Mount Sinai’s Department of Microbiology, with collaborators from Duke University and the University of Vienna.

According to the paper:

“Viruses were generated by reverse genetics.”

The construct combines three separate viral lineages:

• H15 head: from A/shearwater/West Australia/2576/1979 (H15N9), an avian seabird flu.
• H3 stalk and N2 neuraminidase: from A/Hong Kong/4801/2014 (H3N2), a human seasonal flu strain.
• Internal genes: from A/Puerto Rico/8/1934 (H1N1), a long-used lab strain that serves as the genetic backbone for research.

Per the study:

“For the group 1 cH8/1Cal09N1Cal09 virus, the H8 head domain was derived from the HA of A/mallard/Sweden/24/2002 (H8N4) and the HA stalk domain and the NA from A/California/04/2009 (H1N1). For the group 2 cH15/3HK14N2HK14 virus, the H15 head domain was derived from the HA of A/shearwater/West Australia/2576/1979 (H15N9), while the HA stalk domain and NA belong to A/Hong Kong/4801/2014 (H3N2). The internal genes of both viruses were derived from A/Puerto Rico/8/1934 (H1N1).”

In plain terms, Mount Sinai scientists merged three different influenza viruses—bird, human, and laboratory—into a single hybrid.

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Serial Passaging Caused Genetic Mutation

The researchers then passaged the chimeric virus nine times in embryonated chicken eggs, allowing it to adapt and mutate.

They report that:

“Two different mutations were detected in the HA coding sequence at moderate proportions (53–65 %) … variations in the frequency of different polymorphisms were also detected in the HA, NA, and PB2 coding sequences along with changes in the non-coding regions (NCR) of the PB1 and PB2 gene segments.”

In other words, the hybrid virus mutated across key genetic regions associated with host adaptation and replication efficiency—hallmarks of gain-of-function evolution.

Chemical Treatment & Residual Surfactant

To inactivate and split the virus, Mount Sinai’s team exposed it to beta-propiolactone (βPL or BPL)—a known carcinogenic and mutagenic agent—and Triton X-100, a detergent recognized for environmental toxicity and endocrine disruption.

Even after processing, researchers kept residual Triton X-100 between 0.02% and 0.08% to “improve stability,” meaning trace levels of the chemical remained in the finished vaccine material.

Animal Testing & Resistance to Inactivation

Mount Sinai’s team injected mice with 5 micrograms of hemagglutinin (HA) derived from the chimeric viruses, confirming a strong immune response—proof that the lab-created material remained biologically and antigenically active.

Even more concerning, the paper reveals that the cH15/3HK14N2HK14 virus required higher concentrations of BPL to fully neutralize than other influenza strains.

The authors note that 0.025% BPL failed to inactivate the virus within 24 hours, forcing them to double the concentration to 0.05% to achieve total inactivation.

Per the study:

“The demonstration of absence of virus replication after βPL inactivation is a requirement by regulatory agencies. To optimize this, a 24 h virus inactivation kinetics study was conducted for both cH8/ 1Cal09N1Cal09 and cH15/3HK14N2HK14 viruses at 4 ◦C. The absence of HA titer after two sequential rounds of egg injection with neat sample was considered as an indication of complete virus inactivation. For the cH8/ 1Cal09N1Cal09 virus, 0.025 % (v/v) βPL resulted in complete viral inactivation after 24 h incubation. Treatment with 0.025 % (v/v) βPL was not enough to inactivate the cH15/3HK14N2HK14 virus within 24 h, so the concentration of βPL was increased to 0.05 % (v/v). In these conditions, complete virus inactivation was demonstrated.”

This means the Mount Sinai chimera Franken-virus demonstrated greater resistance to chemical inactivation, a red flag in vaccine manufacturing and biosafety settings where even small lapses could lead to accidental exposure.

U.S. Taxpayer Funding & Big Pharma Conflicts of Interest

The project was funded through the NIH’s Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers (CIVIC) contract 75N93019C00051 (here, here), totaling $151 million.

The CIVICs program, launched in September 2019, is involved in more than 125 preclinical, clinical, and manufacturing studies related to influenza vaccines as of 2025.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), led by Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger and part of NIH, provided $51 million in first-year funding for the program.

Mount Sinai disclosed that it has filed patents on these chimeric influenza viruses, listing Krammer and Puente-Massaguer as inventors, and that Krammer personally consults for Merck, Pfizer, GSK, Sanofi, CureVac, and Seqirus, among others.

In effect, the same laboratory designing and manipulating these synthetic viruses also profits from their commercial vaccine applications.

Context: Global Bird Flu Engineering Boom

The revelation comes amid a wave of government-funded bird flu research around the world.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently declared avian influenza a “permanent emergency,” ensuring uninterrupted funding even during government shutdowns.

At the same time, foreign institutions—from Kazakhstan and South Korea, to Switzerland, to the U.K. and China—have engaged in similarly risky gain-of-function avian flu experiments combining multiple virus lineages.

Mount Sinai’s work confirms that such chimeric bird flu construction is also happening in New York City, under NIH contract funding and academic oversight.

Bottom Line

The new Vaccine paper makes clear:

• A man-made bird flu chimera was constructed in New York City,
• Mutated through repeated egg passaging,
• Chemically treated with carcinogenic and toxic compounds,
• And patented for future commercialization.

While branded as vaccine research, these experiments demonstrate dual-use biotechnology—capable of both “protection” and potential catastrophic misuse—occurring inside U.S. borders.

Given the grave national security implications and the proven global track record of lab-origin pandemics, there must be an immediate, permanent moratorium on all pathogen-enhancement and chimeric virus experiments—no matter how they’re labeled, licensed, or justified.

USDA, Energy Department Engineer New Bird Flu Franken-Virus in Georgia Lab: Journal ‘Avian Diseases’

Birds injected with hybrid pathogen became contagious.

A new study published last month in Avian Diseases confirms that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers in Athens, Georgia, engineered a synthetic H5N9 avian influenza “bird flu” virus using reverse genetics—a gain-of-function method that assembles viruses from cloned DNA.

The U.S. Department of Energy, led by Secretary Chris Wright, helped fund the project.

Official Photo of Chris Wright, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy (Energy.gov)

The alarming experiment raises national security concerns.

The new paper explains that the vaccine virus was “generated by reverse genetics … using the HA gene of TK/IN/22 modified to be low pathogenic and N9 NA gene of A/blue winged teal/Wyoming/AH0099021/2016 with the remaining gene segments from the PR8 influenza strain.”

In plain terms, the USDA built a three-part bird flu chimera:

• The H5 gene came from a 2022 highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak in Indiana turkeys.
• The N9 gene came from a wild duck virus in Wyoming.
• The backbone genes came from PR8, a decades-old laboratory strain optimized for high viral replication.

The resulting hybrid—an H5N9-PR8 chimera—does not exist in nature.

The risky work was done in the name of “vaccine development,” revealing how regularly potential bioweapons are created under the guise of claimed public health research.

It is not widely understood that vaccine production often serves as a legal and moral shield for the same dual-use genetic manipulation techniques utilized to build offensive biological agents.

Congress, the White House, the Department of Energy, the FBI, the CIA, and Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) have confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of lab-engineered pathogen manipulation.

The USDA’s new virus creation comes as the agency recently elevated bird flu to a permanent national emergency, guaranteeing uninterrupted funding for its manipulation and vaccine programs even during a government shutdown—cementing bird flu as a standing, institutional priority within America’s biosecurity and biodefense apparatus.

USDA is led by Secretary Brooke Rollins, who in February rolled out a $1 billion plan for fighting bird flu, confirming the agency is orchestrating both the problem and solution to a future avian influenza pandemic.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins (USDA.gov)

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Lab-Enhanced Replication Ability

The USDA researchers admit that the lab-adapted PR8 strain was selected because it “replicates to high titers in eggs,” granting the chimera the ability to multiply rapidly—a function the wild H5N1 and N9 donor viruses lacked.

That change means the USDA-created virus can reach massive viral loads under laboratory or vaccine-manufacturing conditions—a textbook gain of function.

Synthetic Alteration of Pathogenicity

The hemagglutinin (HA) gene from the deadly turkey virus was manually modified to make it appear “low pathogenic”:

“…using the HA gene of TK/IN/22 modified to be low pathogenic…”

This involved editing the HA cleavage site, the molecular switch that determines whether a virus causes mild or fatal disease.

That modification created an artificial genetic variant—a version of H5 that has never existed in wild populations.

Vaccinated Birds Still Shed Virus

Once constructed, the chimera was injected into live turkeys to test “vaccine efficacy.”

Despite being described as “inactivated,” all vaccinated turkeys still shed live virus:

“All turkeys shed detectable levels of virus at one or more time points.”

Even with 100% survival, up to 100% of vaccinated birds in certain groups excreted viral particles from their throats or cloacae—meaning that vaccinated flocks could continue spreading the virus silently.

According to the data, all vaccinated groups shed virus, and some even developed mild symptoms:

“Two vaccinated turkeys in the 9 wk vaccination group exhibited clinical signs … mild unilateral periorbital swelling … mild lethargy from 6 to 7 DPC.”

The USDA’s own summary acknowledges that reducing virus shedding is “a critical aspect of HPAI vaccine efficacy,” but their inactivated vaccine did not eliminate it—meaning even “protected” birds could become long-term reservoirs.

Reverse-Genetics = Dual-Use Research

The USDA team produced the hybrid using a “reverse-genetics system,” the same technology used in dual-use gain-of-function research.

The system reconstructs viruses gene by gene, allowing scientists to mix and match segments from different species.

The resulting construct—combining avian and laboratory lineages—represents a clear functional enhancement over its wild counterparts, achieving:

• Higher replication capacity (PR8 internal genes),
• New antigenic profile (H5N9 combination), and
• Synthetic attenuation (edited cleavage site).

USDA & Energy Department Funding

All authors—Jiho Lee, Chang-Won Lee, Sherif Ibrahim, David Suarez, and Erica Spackman—are government scientists employed by the U.S. National Poultry Research Center, part of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service.

That means the same federal agency responsible for regulating poultry biosecurity is now engineering and testing new bird flu viruses in its own facilities—a conflict of interest for biosafety oversight.

The research was conducted under federal funding agreement “6040-32000-081-00D,” and the authors acknowledged additional support through a U.S. Department of Energy–USDA interagency agreement—confirming dual-agency collaboration in the creation of engineered pathogens.

Creating the Problem to Sell the Solution

While marketed as “vaccine research,” the study’s implications go far beyond poultry health.

The paper explicitly explores DIVA (Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated Animals) systems—tools designed to track infections in vaccinated flocks rather than prevent them.

“The NI-ELLA assay successfully detected antibodies to the challenge virus in vaccinated chickens and showed its potential application for DIVA-VI of vaccinated turkeys.”

In short: instead of eradicating H5N1, the USDA is normalizing its coexistence—vaccinating birds that continue to carry and shed lab-derived influenza strains.

Bottom Line

Under the label of “vaccine development,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture has quietly engineered a novel bird flu chimera that combines genetic material from a lethal turkey virus, a wild duck strain, and a lab-optimized replication platform.

The resulting H5N9 hybrid:

• Does not exist in nature,
• Acquired new laboratory functions, and
• Was tested in live turkeys that continued shedding virus.

What this means is that U.S. government scientists are performing gain-of-function work inside USDA labs — creating, modifying, and testing synthetic avian influenza viruses that have the very properties of concern in dual-use bioweapons research.

In the absence of clear congressional oversight or international accountability, this kind of federally funded pathogen engineering inside domestic labs doesn’t just blur the line between defense and offense—it invites catastrophic biosecurity failure on U.S. soil.

Given that the COVID pandemic killed millions of Americans, there should be a permanent moratorium on all pathogen creation and manipulation—even when it’s done in the name of drug development.

It’s time for a permanent moratorium on all pathogen creation and manipulation—no matter how it’s justified—because Americans should never again be forced to bankroll both the killer cause of a crisis and the government’s profitable “solution” to it.

Kazakhstan, South Korea Engineer Live Bird Flu–Tuberculosis Franken-Virus: Journal ‘Veterinary World’

The discovery coincides with a U.S. policy move placing bird flu and bovine tuberculosis under indefinite emergency status—raising urgent questions of intent and global coordination.

A new study published last month in Veterinary World confirms that scientists from Kazakhstan and South Korea have engineered a live hybrid virus that combines genetic material from avian influenza “bird flu” and Mycobacterium bovis, the bacterium that causes bovine tuberculosis.

Governments all over the world are quietly generating an army of new bird flu pathogens, without a peep from the mainstream media or popular influencers.

The new chimeric influenza–tuberculosis pathogen was created inside Kazakhstan’s government-run Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems, with technical collaboration from Seoul National University in South Korea, and funding provided by Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Education and Science.

According to the authors, they “generated recombinant influenza viruses expressing M. bovis antigens ESAT-6 and TB10.4 using a standard reverse genetic system.”

In plain terms, the team used reverse-genetics, a lab method that assembles new viruses from cloned DNA, to insert tuberculosis genes into the flu genome—creating a synthetic viral-bacterial hybrid.

They further explain: “We produced a vaccine strain expressing the M. bovis mycobacterial proteins ESAT-6 and TB10.4 from the NS1 open reading frame of the avian influenza virus through reverse genetics with virus replication in embryonated chicken eggs.”

In other words, the tuberculosis genes were physically embedded inside the influenza virus’s NS1 gene, then amplified inside live bird embryos to generate infectious viral particles.

The NS1 gene in bird flu controls the virus’s ability to evade the host immune system and replicate efficiently inside infected cells.

The generation of a bird flu-tuberculosis Franken-virus comes as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s FY2026 emergency funding plan quietly placed both highly pathogenic avian influenza and bovine tuberculosis under the same permanent “no-year” emergency funding status—elevating bird flu and tuberculosis research, including gain-of-function and vaccine development, to federally protected, continuous-operation programs even during a full government shutdown.

Taken together, the creation of a live bird flu-tuberculosis chimera overseas and the U.S. government’s decision to grant both pathogens permanent emergency status raise serious national security concerns.

The timing and alignment of these actions suggest more than coincidence—raising pressing questions about whether global agencies and their partners are merely preparing for future outbreaks, or deliberately coordinating the groundwork for one.

Congress, the White House, the Department of Energy, the FBI, and the CIA have confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of lab-engineered pathogen manipulation.

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Insertion of ‘Alien Sequences’

The scientists note that the NS1 gene “was modified to include the antigen sequences.”

That means the flu virus’s genetic code was deliberately edited to carry foreign bacterial fragments.

They add: “The virus was attenuated by modifying the NS1 protein by inserting alien sequences derived from the target protein amino acid region 124.”

Translated, the researchers confirm they altered the flu virus by altering a key protein and inserting “alien” genetic material—a literal cross-species fusion between virus and bacterium.

Microscopic Confirmation of the Hybrid Virus

Under an electron microscope, “the virion morphology of the recombinant viruses corresponded to that of the avian influenza viruses. The virions were spherical and enclosed in a bilayer supercapsid with ~10 nm glycoprotein spikes, which determine the hemagglutinative or neuraminidase activity.”

Simply put, even after being spliced with tuberculosis genes, the new organism was said to still look and behave like an influenza virus—complete with its purported spike-covered shell used for cell infection.

Verified ‘Genetic Chimeric Structure’

Molecular testing showed the genetic combination held together across generations:
“The first cloning stage showed a preserved genetic chimeric structure in the NS1 genome segment, as confirmed by RT-PCR.*”

Meaning: laboratory sequencing confirmed the hybrid DNA remained intact, proving the chimeric virus was genetically stable and self-replicating.

The study’s schematic further details the exact makeup:

“The recombinant segment of the non-structural protein 1 (NS1) gene express[es] the ESAT-6 and TB10.4 antigens of the virulent 0078-Mycobacterium bovis-8/RIBSP strain. The yellow rectangle represents the NS1 regions, while the green rectangles represent the mycobacterial genes.”

In plain language, the figure shows flu genes (yellow) fused with tuberculosis genes (green)—a clear depiction of genetic grafting across species.

Replication & Stability

The team reported the new virus replicated efficiently:

“The recombinant vector expressing the mycobacterial antigens showed a high hemagglutination activity of 1:128 at an infectious activity level of lg 6.75 ± 0.07 EID50/0.2 mL.”

In other words, each dose contained roughly five million infectious particles, confirming robust viral growth.

They also verified the genetic insert stayed stable:

“To evaluate the stability of the inserted gene, five serial passages of the virus were carried out in embryonated chicken eggs at 34 °C.”

This means the hybrid virus could be re-grown repeatedly without losing its tuberculosis genes—evidence of lasting biological stability.

Bottom Line

The Veterinary World study confirms that scientists from Kazakhstan’s Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems and Seoul National University created a genetically engineered, self-replicating organism that merges the genetic material of tuberculosis bacteria with avian influenza virus.

Their own words describe a “recombinant influenza virus” with a “preserved genetic chimeric structure” and “alien sequences” inserted into the NS1 gene—a live, replicating influenza–tuberculosis chimera manufactured inside bird embryos.

The timing of this creation—coinciding with the U.S. government’s decision to grant both bird flu and bovine tuberculosis permanent emergency funding—raises profound national security questions.

It suggests a coordinated international framework in which the same pathogens now being engineered in foreign labs are simultaneously being prioritized and federally protected under U.S. biosecurity policy.

Whether framed as “vaccine research” or “preparedness,” these programs collectively point to a globally synchronized architecture of high-risk pathogen development and continuity planning—one that operates beyond public consent, outside normal oversight, and increasingly blurs the line between defense and deliberate design.

USDA Declares Bird Flu a Permanent Emergency, Ensures Funding Continuity Even During Government Shutdown

Avian influenza officially elevated above nearly every other disease in the country’s federal continuity plan—after USDA rolled out $1 billion bird flu plan earlier this year.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins remarks announcing the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) Commission, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has quietly confirmed that highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1)—the same “bird flu” virus currently at the center of international gain-of-function experiments and vaccine production—will continue to receive emergency funding even during a full government shutdown.

According to the USDA’s FY2026 Lapse of Funding Plan, issued last month, the agency’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will keep drawing from so-called “no-year emergency funding balances” to sustain select animal and plant disease programs indefinitely.

Out of all diseases, bird flu made the list.

And unlike normal appropriations, no-year funds never expire.

“No-year emergency funding balances will support continuation of animal and plant health emergency programs including new world screwworm, highly pathogenic avian influenza, exotic fruit flies, African swine fever, bovine tuberculosis, and rabies,” the plan states on page 23.

The move comes after USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins in February rolled out a $1 billion plan for fighting bird flu.

While governments are creating both the problem and the solution for a future bird flu pandemic (as they did for COVID-19), the USDA is now ensuring that the funding pipeline for those very operations—viral manipulation, surveillance, and pharmaceutical development—remains permanently open, immune to congressional oversight, public objection, or even the collapse of the federal government itself.

USDA’s recent actions confirm that bird flu has been formally elevated to a standing national emergency—an institutionalized, self-perpetuating priority that guarantees the continuation of biosecurity and vaccine programs regardless of political process, fiscal restraint, or the existence of an actual outbreak.

The United Nations and the World Health Organization are also mobilizing their own pandemic command structure around bird flu—with the WHO reactivating its global influenza emergency framework and the U.N. convening 500 international “experts and decision-makers” for the world’s first-ever “Global Dialogue” on bird flu coordination—a synchronized effort that mirrors the pre-COVID buildup of global pandemic infrastructure.

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A Stunning Admission: Bird Flu Funding Can’t Be Stopped

In plain terms, this funding admission means that even if Congress collapses, the White House freezes, and all other federal operations are shuttered—the U.S. government will still keep funding bird flu programs.

Not monkeypox, Ebola, Marburg, or Chikungunya—but bird flu.

That level of protection is extraordinary.

Bird flu has been singled out for continuous, uninterruptible funding, on par with national defense and nuclear security operations.

No other infectious disease—human or animal—is afforded this kind of permanent continuity status in the USDA’s emergency budget architecture.

This isn’t normal policy language.

It’s an institutional declaration that bird flu is being treated as a standing national emergency, whether or not an actual outbreak exists.

What does the government know that we don’t?

And why does the United States continue to perform dangerous gain-of-function experiments on bird flu viruses when Congress, the White House, the Department of Energy, the FBI, and the CIA have confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of lab-engineered pathogen manipulation?

Why does NIAID Director Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger hold a patent on the carcinogenic BPL technology at the center of the Trump administration’s $500 million bird flu vaccine program if he’s simultaneously funding experiments that generate never-before-seen, hybrid “Frankenstein” bird flu pathogens?

Just before the COVID pandemic, former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci was funding similar dangerous coronavirus experiments while the government was simultaneously developing a COVID vaccine.

Taken together, these problem-solution orchestration patterns raise national security, conflict of interest, and informed consent concerns.

A Signal of Pre-Planned Pandemic Operations

This USDA no-year emergency bird flu funding revelation comes as federal and international partners are already pouring billions into bird flu vaccine stockpiling, cancer-linked bird flu jabs, and bird flu gain-of-function lab experiments.

The USDA’s emergency funding clause guarantees that none of these operations—research, surveillance, vaccine testing, or field trials—will ever be interrupted, even if the rest of the government runs out of money.

This continuity effectively locks in a permanent and unprecedented bird flu response infrastructure, insulating bird flu activities from public debate, budget oversight, or congressional defunding efforts.

In other words, the government has pre-authorized bird flu as the one disease that can bypass the normal political process.

Prioritizing Bird Flu Over All Else

The USDA’s plan lists only six diseases eligible for automatic emergency funding: H5N1 bird flu, African swine fever, rabies, bovine tuberculosis, exotic fruit flies, and New World screwworm.

Yet only one of these—H5N1—is currently the focus of global vaccine production, laboratory gain-of-function work, and pandemic-level preparedness programs.

This choice is not accidental.

It shows that H5N1 has been politically and financially elevated above all other animal diseases as the presumed next pandemic threat.

It also means federal agencies are ensuring that avian flu vaccine and biosecurity operations will proceed uninterrupted, regardless of whether Congress approves a budget or the public objects.

Implications: A Built-In Bird Flu Apparatus

The USDA’s FY2026 Lapse of Funding Plan document proves that the U.S. government has already built the infrastructure to respond to an H5N1 “emergency” long before any such emergency exists.

It guarantees:

• Constant funding for H5N1 surveillance, lab work, and vaccine production.
• Operational continuity across USDA, BARDA, and CEPI-linked vaccine programs.
• No congressional check or pause on H5N1-related activities—even under government collapse.

When paired with the ongoing gain-of-function experiments enhancing H5N1’s ability to infect mammals, this shows the federal government isn’t merely preparing for a bird flu outbreak—it’s institutionalizing it as a permanent national focus.

Bottom Line

The USDA’s FY2026 emergency funding plan quietly exposes how H5N1 bird flu has been hardwired into the U.S. government’s permanent emergency infrastructure.

While nearly every other program would go dark in a shutdown, bird flu remains protected—its funding guaranteed, its operations untouchable, its continuity automatic.

This is not routine budgeting.

It’s a declaration of institutional permanence for a virus that has not yet caused a human pandemic—an extraordinary move that places bird flu response programs on the same level as national defense and nuclear security.

By pre-authorizing H5N1 funding to flow indefinitely, the federal government has created a self-sustaining pandemic apparatus—one that cannot be defunded, debated, or democratically constrained.

Taken together, the USDA’s emergency funding clause, NIAID’s gain-of-function work, and the global vaccine push reveal a chilling reality: H5N1 isn’t just being prepared for—it’s being positioned.

The government has pre-selected bird flu as the next pandemic—and built a financial machine to keep that plan running forever.

Is the next bird flu pandemic no longer a question of if, but when?

WHO Quietly Reactivates Global Influenza Pandemic Apparatus for Bird Flu: ‘Journal of Infectious Diseases’

WHO received $8 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic—is that why it’s expanding bird flu pandemic response infrastructure instead of demanding bird flu gain-of-function be halted?

A Wednesday publication in the Journal of Infectious Diseases confirms the World Health Organization (WHO) is quietly expanding its global pandemic infrastructure—this time around the threat of an H5N1 “bird flu” pandemic.

Not chikungunya. Not Ebola. Not Nipah. Not monkeypox.

Bird flu: the very virus countries are dangerously enhancing in labs even as they develop the vaccines and drugs to contain it (see recommended reading below this article).

In other words, while governments are creating both the problem and the solution to a bird flu pandemic, the WHO is building the command structure that will manage the global response when that crisis arrives.

The WHO’s bird flu paper surfaces as the United Nations, the most consequential international institution in existence, convenes 500 experts for a “global dialogue” on the same threat, signaling that global institutions are quietly aligning their pandemic machinery around bird flu.

The new report was written by officials in the World Health Organization’s Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Management.

It describes a permanent coordination system linking governments, pharmaceutical companies, and humanitarian agencies through two mechanisms: the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework and a new Interim Medical Countermeasures Network (i-MCM-net).

Together, they allow WHO to “coordinate availability, equitable access to, and timely allocation of medical countermeasures at the global level: strengthen coordination efforts and provide strategic orientation to ensure a coherent response to pandemic threats, with a focus on the global level.”

Key Question: Why is the WHO more focused on creating bird flu pandemic response infrastructure than on demanding governments halt all gain-of-function and reverse genetics experiments on bird flu—or all pathogens, for that matter?

One reason might be that the World Health Organization received a total of approximately $8 billion in funding during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The massive inflow of cash was unprecedented in the organization’s history and timeframe, as it greatly exceeded the approved biennial program budget of $5.84 billion.

COVID-19 made the WHO richer than ever.

What would a bird flu pandemic bring in?

And is that potential pandemic profit more important to the WHO than stopping what causes pandemics in the first place?

Congress, the White House, the Department of Energy, the FBI, and the CIA have confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of lab-engineered pathogen manipulation.

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Built Around the Bird Flu Threat

WHO traces the origin of these systems to the early-2000s H5N1 outbreaks:

“During 2005, changes were observed in the epidemiology of H5N1 disease in animals, and human cases continued to occur with high mortality (33% to > 50% case fatality),” the new Journal of Infectious Diseases publication reads. “The virus evolved and expanded its geographical range and became endemic in poultry in parts of Asia, increasing the size of the population at risk.”

The paper explains that these events prompted creation of an international antiviral stockpile “for strategic use during an evolving outbreak.”

“Considering the impact of a pandemic caused by the highly pathogenic virus, WHO was asked to explore the establishment of an international stockpile of antivirals for strategic use during an evolving outbreak in an attempt to contain it at the source or at least delay spread.”

Two decades later, WHO again points to the potential of an H5N1 pandemic to justify maintaining that infrastructure indefinitely.

New Supply Agreements & Industry Partners

In May 2024 WHO signed a donation agreement with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., securing up to five million courses of Tamiflu over two years.

“These antiviral treatment courses would be critical in the early stages of the response to an influenza pandemic,” writes the WHO.

The supplement lists additional sponsors—Roche, Gilead, Shionogi, Cidara, Eradivir, Leyden Laboratories, and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations—showing direct corporate integration in the WHO’s antiviral and vaccine network.

How the Systems Intersect

WHO’s i-MCM-net is designed to manage global distribution of antivirals and vaccines once they are licensed or “emergency use” authorized.

(We do not need an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for any bird flu vaccines or pharmaceuticals because we already have safe and effective FDA-approved medicines for the disease: Xofluza and Ivermectin).

The international agency already tested the network by allocating 2.4 million monkeypox vaccine doses in 2024 and states it will serve as the operational model for future influenza events.

In effect, laboratory research, pharmaceutical development, and international logistics are now operating in parallel lanes that converge under WHO coordination whenever an influenza pandemic threat is declared.

The Scale of Coordination

The WHO paper also notes that the organization is activating the i-MCM-net before the forthcoming Pandemic Agreement enters into force:

“Pending entry into force of the WHO Pandemic Agreement, WHO is working with Member States and relevant partners to ensure the interim Medical Countermeasures Network (i-MCM net) is operational to respond to public health events requiring a coordinated international response.”

That means the infrastructure for global response is already functioning in anticipation of a coming H5N1 or other influenza emergency.

Bottom Line

Across science, industry, and policy, H5N1 bird flu has become the organizing focus of a worldwide pandemic-response regime.

While laboratories across the U.S., Europe, and Asia continue conducting gain-of-function and reverse-genetics experiments that enhance bird-flu viruses, governments and pharmaceutical companies are simultaneously developing the vaccines and antivirals to counter those same engineered strains.

At the center of it all, the World Health Organization is orchestrating the global command structure—the supply chains, stockpiles, and distribution systems that will deploy those medical products once the next pandemic is declared.

COVID-19 showed that pandemic response can generate unprecedented funding and influence for global health institutions.

The WHO’s current expansion suggests it is preparing to replicate that model—this time around H5N1.

Whether viewed as preparedness or unchecked consolidation of power, the coordination now underway is one of the most extensive and consequential mobilizations around a single virus threat since COVID-19—and it is happening in plain sight.

And no one’s talking about it.

But we are.

NIAID, DARPA, Bill Gates Intentionally Infect 80 Americans With Lab-Made Pandemic Influenza Virus: HHS Study

Majority of infected individuals became contagious to others, raising national security and informed consent concerns.

A federally run experiment funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation deliberately infected 80 American adults with a lab-grown pandemic influenza virus at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Data from 74 of those infected were analyzed, and 53 of them (72% of analyzed participants, or at least 66% of all infected participants) were confirmed to be shedding the pathogen, meaning they were actively contagious and could infect others.

We do not know whether six participants who were excluded from the study after being deliberately infected were shedding the virus or not.

Regardless, 53 of the individuals became contagious to others.

The human-infection experiment—officially published in Science Translational Medicine (Aug. 2025) under the title “Nasal and systemic immune responses correlate with viral shedding after influenza challenge in people with complex preexisting immunity”—was conducted entirely under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The original HHS manuscript can be found here or downloaded below.

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Lab-Made Pandemic Virus Used to Infect Humans

According to the paper, participants were “challenged with 10⁷ half-maximal tissue culture infectious dose (TCID₅₀) of a 2009 pandemic H1N1 strain, A/Bethesda/MM2/H1N1.”

That purported virus was not naturally circulating.

It was a lab-engineered clone of the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus, manufactured by NIH scientists in Bethesda and maintained as a standardized “human challenge” stock.

The virus name itself—A/Bethesda/MM2/H1N1—identifies it as an NIH-made strain.

The “Bethesda” designation marks its laboratory origin at NIH’s Maryland facility, and “MM2” denotes the second master-mix batch of the cloned challenge stock.

80 Individuals Deliberately Infected Under HHS Oversight

The study describes the deliberate exposure of 80 adults to this laboratory-made pandemic influenza strain in 2019.

“The challenge study (clinicaltrials.gov NCT01971255) was performed at the NIH Clinical Center between April and October 2019,” the study reads.

Interestingly, that means the 80 human participants were intentionally infected with the NIH-made H1N1 influenza virus roughly five to six months before COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China (December 2019).

So, while the study was published in Science Translational Medicine in August 2025, the actual human infections occurred in mid-2019.

Half of those deliberately infected had been vaccinated roughly two months earlier with a commercial quadrivalent influenza vaccine; the other half had not.

“All 80 participants were brought into the NIH Clinical Center as mixed cohorts and challenged with 10⁷ TCID₅₀ of influenza A/Bethesda/MM2/H1N1 virus … and assessed daily for a minimum of 9 days.”

Although only 74 participants were ultimately included in the analysis (after six were excluded), every one of them was intentionally inoculated with a live, replication-competent pandemic virus.

The experiment was run on U.S. federal property by U.S. government scientists.

It was approved by the NIAID Institutional Review Board (IRB No. 19-I-0058), making it an officially sanctioned HHS human-infection study.

The human infection experiment was carried out under a multi-million U.S. taxpayer dollar project titled “Universal Influenza Vaccine Development” (project number 1ZIAAI001372), led by Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger.

Dr. Taubenberger—listed as an author on the study—is the current NIAID Director, taking over Anthony Fauci’s spot.

Taubenberger holds a patent for the carcinogenic BPL technology at the center of the Trump administration’s new ‘Generation Gold Standard’ influenza bird flu pandemic vaccine platform.

His agency is also directing U.S. tax dollars to fund the creation of never-before-seen “Frankenstein” bird flu viruses.

Confirmed 72% of Analyzed Participants—& at Least 66% of All Infected—Became Infectious

A total of 80 volunteers were deliberately infected with the NIH-made influenza virus, but data from only 74 participants were included in the final published analysis.

Among those 74 analyzed participants, 53 were confirmed to actively shed virus, meaning they were contagious.

Because the six excluded individuals were not evaluated for viral shedding, the true number of infectious participants could be higher, but only 53 are confirmed in the published dataset.

That equates to 72% of the analyzed group and at least 66% of everyone infected becoming contagious, some for several days.

Shedding was tracked by daily nasal swabs using the BioFire Respiratory Pathogen Panel and qRT-PCR testing for the influenza M gene.

Participants were considered “shedding” when viral RNA was detected in nasal-wash samples.

“[P]articipants shedding virus for two or more days showed higher early viral loads and exhibited stronger induction of antiviral responses compared with participants who shed virus for one day.”

The highest viral loads appeared in multiday shedders on days 1–3 post-infection, coinciding with the most severe flu-like symptoms, as measured by NIH’s FluPro symptom scoring system.

Vaccination Failed to Prevent Infection or Shedding

Vaccination did not prevent infection.

The paper admits that “vaccinated shedders” displayed increased T-cell activity and inflammatory markers, including CD8A, PD-L1, IFN-γ, IL-6, and TNF-β, compared to unvaccinated shedders—indicating that vaccination did not stop infection but instead triggered a hyper-inflammatory immune response.

Females were three times more likely to clear the infection after only one day of shedding, while males were more likely to shed virus for multiple days.

Funding: NIAID, DARPA, and Gates Foundation

The study lists its financial backers as:

• NIAID Intramural Research Program (grants AI000986-12 and AI001157-07)
• DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), contract HR0011831160
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, grant OPP1178956

That combination of government and private funders represents the same triad—HHS, the Pentagon, and the Gates Foundation—responsible for many dual-use biological and “pandemic preparedness” programs that blur the line between public health and bio-defense research.

Containment & Biosafety Measures Not Disclosed

Remarkably, the 2025 Science Translational Medicine paper and HHS manuscript provide no description whatsoever of biosafety precautions—no mention of negative-pressure rooms, isolation conditions, or post-infection quarantine protocols to prevent secondary transmission.

Readers of the study are unable to verify how the government prevented infected subjects from spreading the lab-made virus to others, raising national security concerns.

It further raises grave informed-consent concerns, as individuals who interacted with these infected volunteers beyond the study setting were never informed that they might be exposed to an NIH-made pandemic influenza virus.

Given that 72 percent of participants were confirmed viral shedders, this omission raises serious biosafety and public-transmission concerns.

Conducted Entirely Under HHS Authority

The trial was hosted, funded, staffed, and overseen by HHS agencies from start to finish:

• Conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland
• Run by the NIAID Laboratory of Infectious Diseases
• Reviewed by an HHS Institutional Review Board
• Carried out under HHS Good Clinical Practice guidelines

In short, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services infected 74 American adults with a lab-grown pandemic influenza virus to study viral shedding and immune-system responses—while omitting basic transparency about containment.

The nation’s top health agency is infecting Americans with pandemic-grade pathogens.

Bottom Line

The federally directed experiment—funded by NIAID, DARPA, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—was a live human-infection challenge using a lab-engineered influenza strain created by NIH scientists in Bethesda.

Eighty adults were deliberately infected with the laboratory-made pandemic H1N1 virus; data from 74 were analyzed, and 53 of them (72 % of those analyzed, or at least 66 % of everyone infected) were confirmed to be shedding the pathogen—actively contagious and capable of transmitting it to others.

The six excluded participants were also infected, but the government provided no data indicating whether they shed virus, leaving the full extent of contagiousness unknown.

No description was provided for biosafety controls, isolation conditions, or post-infection release criteria, meaning the public record offers no verification of how HHS prevented the spread of its own lab-created virus beyond the NIH facility.

This omission raises not only national-security concerns but also informed-consent violations, since people who may have interacted with participants outside the study were never notified of possible exposure to an NIH-made pathogen.

Although the paper frames the experiment as advancing “next-generation vaccine development,” its findings instead showed that vaccination failed to prevent infection or viral shedding and appeared to trigger immune hyperactivation in vaccinated participants.

The newly published HHS study therefore stands as a rare, fully documented example of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services deliberately infecting American citizens with a laboratory-grown pandemic-grade virus—underwritten by HHS, DARPA, and the Gates Foundation, with no transparent account of how the resulting contagion was contained.

Enough is enough with this shit already.

U.K.-China Gain-of-Function Creates Airborne Bird Flu Viruses Capable of Infecting Humans and Other Mammals: ‘Journal of Virology’

National security in jeopardy as government-funded Chinese–U.K. team engineered bird flu viruses with a new mutation that let them infect human cells and spread through the air between mammals.

A September publication in the Journal of Virology confirms that Chinese and U.K. researchers have jointly created, enhanced, and tested new avian influenza “bird flu” viruses in the lab that acquired the ability to infect and spread among mammals through the air.

Congress, the White House, the Department of Energy, the FBI, and the CIA have confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of lab-engineered pathogen manipulation.

Such experimentation raises national security and biosafety concerns.

Countries all over the world are performing risky experiments on bird flu viruses while developing drugs for the disease, simultaneously creating both the problem and the solution, raising questions about conflicts of interest and motives.

The new study—led by Dr. Juan Pu and Dr. Jinhua Liu of China Agricultural University—used a plasmid-based reverse-genetics system to construct synthetic viruses based on H9N2, H7N9, and H3N8 avian-influenza backbones.

The team intentionally introduced a new mutation called PB2-E627V, a single amino acid change that does not occur naturally in these strains, which allows bird flu viruses to cross into humans.

“Recombinant viruses were generated using a plasmid-based reverse genetics system in the genetic background of 17/H9N2, 17/H7N9, and 22/H3N8,” the authors wrote.

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What the Mutation Did

The PB2-627V mutation bridged the species barrier between birds and humans by allowing the virus to exploit host proteins in both.

“PB2-627V combines the viral properties of avian-like PB2-627E and human-like PB2-627K, facilitating AIVs to efficiently infect and replicate in chickens and mice by utilizing both avian- and human-origin ANP32A proteins.”

In other words, the modified viruses replicated like avian strains in birds and like human flu viruses in mammals—a dual-host adaptation that overcomes the natural molecular restriction that normally prevents bird flu from establishing infection in humans.

Aerosol Transmission in Mammals

Perhaps most disturbing, the researchers infected ferrets—the most widely accepted mammalian model for human influenza—and documented respiratory-droplet (aerosol) transmission.

“PB2-627V promotes efficient transmission between ferrets through respiratory droplets.”

This means the engineered H9N2 strain became airborne and contagious between mammals, an outcome that squarely fits the U.S. government’s definition of “enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogen” (ePPP) research under the HHS P3CO framework, which covers any experiment that enhances the transmissibility or virulence of a pathogen so that it is likely capable of widespread and uncontrollable transmission in human populations.

Replication in Chickens, Mice, & Humans

The study showed that the lab-created viruses replicated efficiently in chicken lungs, increased viral loads in human-cell cultures, and caused more severe pathology in mice than wild-type strains.

The viruses were also serially passaged through five generations of live chickens, proving that PB2-627V remains genetically stable and transmissible in poultr.

This means the mutation could sustain itself in farm flocks and later spill over to people.

“PB2-627V showed a high potential for sustained prevalence in chickens,” the authors concluded.

Funded by Chinese & British Governments

The paper lists funding only from China and the United Kingdom:

“This work was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFD1800202 and 2022YFF0802400 [J.P.] and 2024YFE0106000 [J.L.]), National Natural Science Foundation of China (32192450 [J.L.] and 32102661 [Z.J.]), and UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/D/20002173 and UK Medical Research Council MR/Y015045/1”

Collaborating institutions included the Roslin Institute (University of Edinburgh), the University of Nottingham, and the University of Hong Kong, alongside China Agricultural University in Beijing.

In plain terms: the Chinese and British governments jointly funded and executed gain-of-function experiments that engineered avian flu viruses to infect mammals through the air.

Biosecurity & Ethical Concerns

The authors admit that contamination occurred in sequencing samples, though they claim those data were “excluded from the final results.”

“Due to potential contamination identified in sequencing samples from the second and third parallel experiments during subsequent analysis, all data from these experiments were excluded from the final results,” the study reads.

That means while performing next-generation sequencing (NGS) on viral samples, the researchers detected contamination in some of their experimental batches—specifically, in the second and third parallel experiments.

Such an admission in a study manipulating airborne bird flu viruses underlines serious biosafety questions about laboratory conditions and oversight.

There is no mention of independent biosecurity review, P3CO-style oversight, or international ethics board approval for the gain-of-function component of the work.

International Risk

The paper acknowledges that the PB2-627V mutation is already spreading naturally across multiple subtypes—including H5N1, H5N6, H7N9, H3N8, and H10N3—and has been found in humans, foxes, minks, tigers, and wild birds.

The authors warn:

“Given the global prominence of AIVs, it will be prudent to monitor influenza viruses for the PB2-627V mutation as a potential marker for zoonotic spread.”

That is an understatement.

What they have demonstrated is that lab-modified avian-flu viruses can now infect mammals and transmit through the air—a benchmark for pandemic-capable pathogens.

Bottom Line

The Journal of Virology paper by Guo et al. (2025) provides direct evidence that:

• China and the United Kingdom jointly conducted gain-of-function experiments on avian flu viruses.
• The resulting strains crossed the species barrier and became airborne between mammals.
• These experiments meet the U.S. government’s definition of enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogen (ePPP) research.

In short: Western and Chinese scientists have again created lab-made bird-flu viruses capable of infecting mammals through the air—exactly the kind of experiment international biosecurity laws were supposed to prevent.