USDA, NIAID, and NIH finance genetic experiment generating human avian influenza pathogen from scratch that can infect cows.
A newly published study in npj Veterinary Sciences reveals that federally funded researchers have bioengineered an infectious human H5N1 bird flu pathogen in a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory and intentionally infected dairy cows.
The new bird flu project received backing from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
According to the study:
“Reverse genetics plasmids for wild-type A/Texas/37/2024 (H5N1)… were obtained from Twist Biosciences.”
“Reverse genetics to generate the infectious clone was performed using the 8-plasmid system… in a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory.”
Using plasmid-based biotechnology, researchers say they have built a live infectious clone of a human H5N1 bird flu virus inside a federally funded high-containment laboratory.
The study’s listed researchers from the University of Georgia (contact) are: Flavio Cargnin Faccin, L. Claire Gay, Dikshya Regmi, Sasha Compton, Teresa D. Mejías, Juliana Calil Brondani, Lok R. Joshi, Elizabeth W. Howerth, Daniela S. Rajao, Roberto A. Palomares, and Daniel R. Perez.
Scientists Directly Infect Live Dairy Cows
After constructing the pathogen, researchers deliberately exposed cows through both nasal and direct mammary gland infection:
“Cows were inoculated with 1 × 106 TCID50/ml of A/Texas/37/2024 (H5N1), administered as follows: 4 ml instilled into each nostril… and 2 ml in each of two quarters… using a teat cannula.”
Scientists directly introduced the bioengineered virus into cows’ noses and milk-producing udder tissue.
Infection Triggers Severe Biological Damage
Following deliberate infection:
Milk production collapsed by roughly 75%
Milk became yellow and abnormal
Mammary glands developed severe mastitis and tissue destruction
Viral replication surged in milk and udder tissue
Fever spike reached 106°F
Researchers report:
“Milk production rapidly decreased, and milk samples exhibited a colostrum-like appearance.”
“These findings strongly support significant viral replication within infected quarters.”
Human Bird Flu Crosses Directly Into Cattle
Researchers confirm:
“By using a human H5N1 virus, we demonstrated that cows could be infected with a human H5N1 strain.”
Backed by NIH, NIAID, and USDA funding, scientists successfully bioengineered an infectious human H5N1 bird flu virus and demonstrated that it can cross species barriers and infect large mammalian livestock.
Federal Bird Flu Infrastructure Expands Vaccine Development
Researchers explicitly state:
“Our findings confirm that Jersey cows are susceptible to H5N1 infection and establish them as a valuable experimental model for studying disease pathogenesis and vaccine development.”
Federal agencies now expand dairy cattle as a large-animal model for future H5N1 vaccine development and pathogenesis programs.
Federal Funding Streams
Funding includes:
USDA/NIFA
NIH/NIAID
Federal contracts
Government influenza grants
“We thank Julia Grindle and Kilie Wilson for their assistance with milking the cows during the acclimation period. We thank Jazmin Destiny Lynn, Hannah Walker, Karly Pecua, Morgan George, and Robert Gafnea at the Animal Health and Research Center, University of Georgia, specifically for their assistance during animal studies under Animal Biosafety Level 3 containment. Funding for this work includes grants, contracts, and subawards to D.R.P. including National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grant award numbers 2020-67015-31539 and 2021-67015-33406, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant award number R21AI146448 and R01AI154894, Contract number 75N93021C00014 and Options 15A, 15B and 17A. Additional funds were provided to D.R.P. by the Georgia Research Alliance and the Caswell S Eidson Chair in Poultry Medicine endowment funds.”
Bottom Line
USDA, NIH, and NIAID actively fund scientists to build a bioengineered human H5N1 bird flu pathogen in a BSL-3 laboratory, prove it can cross species barriers into large mammalian livestock, and deliberately infect dairy cows to expand federal bird flu pathogenesis and vaccine development infrastructure.
The study confirms U.S. government-backed scientists are not only constructing and deploying infectious bird flu pathogens in live animals, but also expanding the biological and operational systems needed for future large-scale influenza experimentation, surveillance, and countermeasure development.
Gov’t finances creation of lethal avian influenza Frankenviruses in Nebraska.
A newly released npj Vaccines study confirms that U.S. government–funded researchers constructed hybrid influenza viruses in the lab and used them to trigger complete mortality in animal experiments, while framing the work under vaccine development.
The experiment, titled “Dual-Route H5N1 Vaccination Induces Systemic and Mucosal Immunity in Murine and Bovine Models,” was conducted by University of Nebraska–Lincoln scientists Joshua Wiggins, Adthakorn Madapong, and Eric A. Weaver.
The creation of deadly chimeric pathogens was financed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
The study explicitly states:
“This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (Grant Nos. 2020 -06448 and 2024 -08723 to E.A.W.), and by the National Institutes of Health –NIAID (Grant No. 1R01AI147109 to E.A.W.).”
The researchers say they constructed the hybrid bird flu pathogens using reverse genetics.
That means the scientists assembled the viruses from scratch by inserting their genetic sequences into plasmids and introducing them into cells, which then are said to produce a fully formed infectious virus.
The paper states:
“A BSL-2 compliant reverse genetic (rg) system was used to produce” H5N1 Influenza A virus strains.”
And details how they were assembled:
“Six (PB1, PB2, PA, NP, M, and NS) IAV gene segments from the PR/8/34 H1N1 laboratory strain were cloned individually into the pHW2000 vector. Separately, the neuraminidase (N) gene and hemagglutinin (H) gene without the highly pathogenic multibasic cleavage site from each strain were synthesized and cloned into the same pHW2000 vector.”
This is a genetic recombination system:
Internal genes from a lab strain (PR/8/34)
Surface genes (H5N1) inserted
Entire virus rebuilt from plasmids
That is a chimeric influenza construct—a hybrid assembled in the lab.
Engineered Pathogens Cause Lethal Disease
Even with deliberate modification of a known virulence element:
“hemagglutinin… without the highly pathogenic multibasic cleavage site”
—the viruses remained lethal.
100% Mortality in Mammals
The outcome in animals exposed to these engineered viruses is stated plainly:
Follows California, Illinois, Colorado, and New York City’s entry into same transnational WHO outbreak coordination system.
Governor Bob Ferguson announced this month that Washington State is now part of the World Health Organization Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN), an international syndicate of “public health agencies, national governments, academic centers, laboratories, and response organizations focused on rapidly detecting and responding to public health emergencies,” according to a press release from the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA).
Washington joins California, Illinois, Colorado, and New York City by entering GOARN.
According to WSNA, Washington’s public health leaders will fall in line with the WHO’s:
global outbreak early-warning alerts, meaning real-time surveillance tied into an international detection system
technical collaboration and support during major public health events, meaning coordinated response across jurisdictions
international training, exercises, and best-practice exchanges, meaning standardized response protocols
and coordinated outbreak response support, meaning integrated deployment during declared emergencies.
Congress has already confirmed that the WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic “was an abject failure” and that the WHO’s “newest effort to solve the problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — via a “Pandemic Treaty” — may harm the United States.”
This means Washington’s decision comes despite federal findings that the WHO mismanaged the last pandemic and is advancing new agreements that could expand its influence over future responses.
You can contact Gov. Ferguson’s office here to voice your opposition to Washington’s integration into a WHO-linked outbreak surveillance and response system and demand accountability for aligning state public health infrastructure with failed global coordination mechanisms.
In the governor’s press release, Washington State Secretary of Health Dennis Worsham cited avian influenza (“bird flu”) in justifying the move:
“Disease outbreaks don’t stop at state or national borders, and our ability to protect people in Washington shouldn’t either,” Washington State Secretary of Health Dennis Worsham said. “Joining GOARN ensures we maintain access to critical global outbreak intelligence and stay connected to leading public health experts, even as federal relationships change. We’re not waiting for the next threat — we’re preparing for it. From COVID-19 to rising measles cases and avian influenza, we’ve seen how quickly diseases can spread. Through GOARN, we can detect risks earlier, respond faster and better protect people in our communities — while also contributing Washington’s expertise to global response efforts.”
The development comes as bird flu is being framed internationally as an imminent threat while laboratory manipulation of the virus continues, vaccines are developed in parallel, and global, federal, and state systems are aligned to respond.
This is the same sequence of surveillance, lab work, and countermeasure rollout that preceded the COVID-19 pandemic.
HHS-backed research produced chimeric influenza viruses carrying SARS-CoV-2’s ACE2-binding interface—introducing a higher-affinity human receptor-binding mechanism into an influenza pathogen.
HHS-funded researchers are claiming to have engineered influenza-based chimeric “Frankenstein” viruses that combine influenza’s hemagglutinin (HA) with the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD)—a high-affinity human ACE2-binding interface.
Introducing a fundamentally different and stronger human cell–binding mechanism into an influenza viral system is a modification that fits longstanding U.S. gain-of-function definitions involving altered receptor usage and host range.
A December 2025 bioRxiv preprint confirms the work, supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—was funded under grant P01-AI165075:
“This work was funded by… National Institutes of Health… P01-AI165075”
and involved replacing influenza’s native HA gene with the SARS-CoV-2 RBD while producing virus particles coated with HA in the laboratory, resulting in viral constructs that physically contain both influenza’s entry protein and the SARS-CoV-2 optimized human cell–binding interface.
The study was conducted by Jonathan Munro, Diana Melnyk, Madeeha Afzal, Lisa Schimanski, Alexander A. Cohen, Jennifer R. Keeffe, Pamela J. Bjorkman, William S. James, Alain R. Townsend, and Tiong Kit Tan, with affiliations including the University of Oxford’s Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and Sir William Dunn School of Pathology (here), the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences–Oxford Institute (here), and the California Institute of Technology (here).
The head of HHS is Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while NIH is led by Director Jay Bhattacharya and NIAID is headed by Director Jeffery Taubenberger.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump recently signed legislation into law allocating at least $5.5 billion in taxpayer funding for a future influenza pandemic.
At the same time, the Trump administration has advanced a $500 million “next-generation, gold-standard” combination influenza-COVID vaccine platform—positioning federal agencies to simultaneously fund the development of pandemic-capable influenza-COVID pathogens while building the mass vaccination infrastructure designed to respond to the very outbreak those systems could enable.
Engineered Virus Introduces High-Affinity Human Receptor Binding Into Influenza Backbone
The study explicitly confirms that influenza’s native receptor-binding gene was removed and replaced:
“the native haemagglutinin (HA) sequence is replaced with the coding sequence of… the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the… SARS-CoV-2”
Influenza viruses naturally infect human cells using hemagglutinin, which binds sialic acid receptors with relatively low individual affinity and relies on multivalent interactions across many HA proteins.
By contrast, the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain binds directly to the human ACE2 receptor through a high-affinity protein–protein interaction, enabling efficient attachment to human airway cells.
By inserting the SARS-CoV-2 RBD into an influenza backbone, the researchers introduced a human ACE2-binding interface into a virus that does not naturally use that receptor system.
Chimeric Particles Combine Influenza HA and SARS-CoV-2 RBD
The study explicitly states that the influenza virus was genetically modified by replacing its HA coding sequence with the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain:
“we replaced the native HA coding sequence”
and:
“In this study, we describe the generation of a non-replicating pseudotyped influenza A virus (S-FLU), where the native haemagglutinin (HA) sequence is replaced with the coding sequence of either a membrane-anchored form (TM) or secretory form (Sec) of the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan (S-RBD Wuhan).”
At the same time, the study makes clear that HA function is not eliminated at the particle level, but instead supplied externally:
“Inactivation of the native haemagglutinin (HA) signal sequence means that S-FLU can only replicate in cell lines transfected to express HA that provide the surface protein for budding viral particles.”
The authors also confirm that the resulting engineered virus retains the ability to enter cells:
“Notably, S-FLU exhibits the capacity to infect host cells but is replication-incompetent.”
Study Confirms Infection & Expression of SARS-CoV-2 Binding Domain
The researchers confirmed that the engineered virus successfully infected cells and expressed the inserted RBD:
“both S-RBD-TM and S-RBD-Sec led to expression of RBD in the infected cells”
This demonstrates that the chimeric virus delivers and expresses the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain inside host cells following infection.
Bottom Line
HHS-funded researchers say they have engineered influenza-based viruses that combine influenza’s hemagglutinin (HA) with the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD).
They replaced the HA gene with the RBD.
But they still produced virus particles coated with HA.
The result is a chimera that physically carries both influenza’s entry machinery and a high-affinity human ACE2-binding interface.
The study confirms these viruses infect cells and express the RBD.
That is a direct change in receptor usage, consistent with longstanding U.S. gain-of-function definitions.
The work was funded under NIH grant P01-AI165075.
At the same time, the federal government is allocating at least $5.5 billion for an influenza pandemic and advancing a $500 million influenza-COVID vaccine platform—building both the engineered viral systems and the mass-response infrastructure in parallel.
After state’s vaccine passport era, Hawaii lawmakers want to give Department of Health final authority over medical decisions while blocking lawsuits and discipline against those who enforce them.
Hawaii lawmakers are advancing a bill that gives the state’s Department of Health decisive control over which vaccines and preventive services count as medically valid—and then protects anyone who carries them out from nearly all legal consequences.
House Bill 1898 (S.D. 1) creates immunity from civil lawsuits, criminal liability, and professional discipline for providers who follow DOH recommendations on “clinical preventive services.”
If harm occurs later, the main legal question becomes whether the provider obeyed state guidance.
During the next outbreak or pandemic, when the DOH again requires vaccination to work, attend school, travel, or participate in society, anyone injured by the shot could have no one to hold accountable—because the bill grants legal immunity to every doctor, pharmacist, and facility that simply followed state orders.
Watchdog groups actively monitoring the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data confirm 2.7 million adverse events have been linked to vaccines since 1990 (~204 adverse events per day)—though a Harvard Pilgrim Health Care report found that fewer than 1% of adverse events are ever reported, suggesting the true number could be in the hundreds of millions (~20,360 adverse events per day).
The bill directly undermines several longstanding health-freedom principles:
Bodily Autonomy and Informed Consent: Full insurance coverage and legal protection are available only for DOH-approved interventions. Families who prefer a different schedule or approach must pay out of pocket for alternatives that carry no such protections.
Medical Accountability: The bill states that “[n]o person shall be subject to civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action” for providing services in accordance with DOH recommendations. Professional organizations, hospitals, and licensing boards are barred from disciplining, suspending, or penalizing providers who follow the state line.
Independent Medical Judgment: Doctors who disagree with the DOH’s final decision on immunizations risk professional repercussions, while those who comply are shielded.
Parental Rights in Child Health Decisions: The bill rewrites child health supervision rules so that “prevailing medical standards” now mean whatever the DOH says. Insurance must cover the DOH-chosen immunizations at no cost to the family, leaving parents who want a different schedule to pay full price.
Separation of Medicine and State: Standing orders, mandatory insurance coverage with no cost-sharing, pharmacy administration, and legal immunity combine to create a single state-directed pipeline for preventive care.
Department of Health Given Final Authority
The bill makes the Hawaii Department of Health the tie-breaker when national medical groups disagree.
It states that if recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the American Academy of Pediatrics differ, “the department of health shall determine which recommendations shall apply.”
It also gives the DOH new power to issue standing orders for medications and immunizations, allowing them to be given without an individual doctor’s prescription.
Legal Protection Tied to Following State Guidance
The immunity language is clear:
“No professional organization or association, health care provider, or health care facility shall subject any person to discipline, suspension, loss of license, loss of privileges, loss of membership, or other penalty for providing clinical preventive services in accordance with recommendations made pursuant to section 321-31.”
Insurance Must Cover DOH-Approved Services at No Cost
For policies issued after January 1, 2027, insurers must provide coverage “without any deductible, copayment, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing requirements” for anything the DOH recommends.
Every Hawaii policyholder will likely pay higher premiums to subsidize the DOH’s choices—while families who want a different schedule get zero coverage and pay 100% out of pocket.
Pharmacies Can Administer Vaccines Under DOH Rules
HB1898 expands who can give vaccines by allowing pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and registered pharmacy technicians to administer them when ordered in line with DOH recommendations or standing orders.
What This Means in a Future Outbreak
If the DOH issues new recommendations during the next public-health emergency, those shots or treatments can be rolled out quickly through pharmacies, must be covered by insurance, and anyone administering them is protected from lawsuits or discipline as long as they followed DOH guidance.
Negligence Exception Exists, But Standard Is Compliance
The bill still allows claims for injury “arising from negligence.”
In practice, however, the legal test will center on whether the provider followed the Department of Health’s recommendations.
Bottom Line
HB 1898 gives the Department of Health the power to decide which preventive medical interventions are covered and protected by law.
It forces insurers to pay for the state’s choices with no patient cost-sharing and removes meaningful accountability for providers who follow those choices.
Hawaii families who want options outside the official schedule will face higher costs and fewer willing providers.
When the state controls the definition of medical truth and shields its enforcers from consequences, bodily autonomy and informed consent become conditional on government approval rather than individual rights.
L.D. 2071 requires pharmacists to report each vaccine within 72 hours to a centralized state system, enabling real-time monitoring of vaccination across the population.
Maine lawmakers have passed legislation that fundamentally restructures how influenza vaccines can be deployed across the state—establishing a system capable of rapid, large-scale distribution to the general population without relying on physicians.
The final version of L.D. 2071 gives pharmacists full independent authority to prescribe, dispense, and administer influenza vaccines to individuals as young as 3 years and 6 months old—without a prescription or prior medical approval.
This structure removes physician oversight, concentrates vaccination authority in retail pharmacies, and pairs rapid, population-wide access with centralized state reporting—raising concerns about informed consent, medical autonomy, and the state’s ability to execute a fast, large-scale influenza vaccination campaign if another public health emergency is declared.
As of April 7, 2026, the bill has passed both chambers in identical final form and has been ordered sent to the Governor’s desk for signature.
The bill will take effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns, which is scheduled for April 15, 2026—meaning the new pharmacist authority would become law on July 14, 2026.
The legislation’s advancement comes amid state, federal, and international influenza outbreak orchestration.
Pharmacists Become Frontline Vaccination Authority
Under the amended statute:
“A pharmacist… may prescribe, dispense or administer… all forms of influenza vaccines… to a person 3 years 6 months of age or older without a prescription.”
This language removes the traditional requirement that a physician authorize vaccination—transferring full control over influenza vaccine delivery directly to retail pharmacies.
Pharmacists are no longer limited to administering a doctor’s order.
They can now initiate vaccination themselves.
That shift transforms pharmacies from passive distribution points into independent vaccination hubs capable of operating at scale.
Statewide Retail Network Activated for Mass Deployment
By design, the system leverages the existing pharmacy network as the backbone of vaccine delivery.
Instead of relying on:
clinics
hospital systems
scheduled appointments
The law enables:
walk-in access
immediate administration
decentralized distribution
Pharmacies—already embedded in nearly every community—function as a ready-made infrastructure for rapid statewide rollout.
Influenza Singled Out for Broadest Authority
The legislation treats influenza differently from all other vaccines.
Influenza vaccines:
pharmacist can prescribe, dispense, and administer
applies down to age 3 years 6 months
Other vaccines:
independent pharmacist authority limited to adults 18+
minors require a doctor’s prescription
This makes influenza the only vaccine category granted full pharmacist-controlled access across both adults and young children.
Real-Time State Tracking Built In
The bill also requires that every administered vaccine be reported:
Pharmacists must report vaccine administration to the state immunization information system within 72 hours.
This creates a centralized system capable of:
tracking vaccination rates
monitoring geographic uptake
identifying gaps in coverage
The result is near real-time visibility into how widely vaccines are being administered across the population.
Insurance Language Opens the Door—Without Mandating Coverage
While earlier versions of the bill proposed mandatory no-cost vaccine coverage, the final version stops short of requiring it.
Instead, the amended law clarifies that insurers are authorized to cover vaccines without cost-sharing if they choose, rather than mandating it.
Even without a mandate, the structure aligns financial incentives with expanded access.
What the Structure Reveals
The bill establishes:
Immediate, walk-in vaccination access
No physician gatekeeping
A statewide pharmacy-based delivery network
Rapid reporting into a centralized tracking system
Inclusion of young children in the rollout model
This represents a complete redesign of how influenza vaccines can be deployed at scale.
Bottom Line
Maine legislators have constructed a system that allows influenza vaccines to be distributed quickly, broadly, and with minimal friction across the entire population.
If activated, the infrastructure enables any individual to walk into a pharmacy, receive an influenza vaccine on the spot, and have that dose logged into a statewide tracking system within days—without ever interacting with a physician.
H.R. 7973, with 203 cosponsors, would create a closed-loop federal system to identify pregnant women by race and demographics, boost their vaccination rates, and track them in real time.
A federal bill introduced in Congress would create a system where pregnant women are not only targeted for increased vaccination but also tracked through a federally coordinated surveillance network that activates during pandemics.
H.R. 7973—the “Momnibus Act”—authorizes a staggering $2.46 billion overall, with $715 million of that specifically allocated to build this structure: combining mass vaccination initiatives with a real-time data tracking system designed to monitor health status, outcomes, and demographic characteristics during declared public health emergencies.
The bill constructs a pipeline to identify the population, increase medical intervention, and track the results—continuously, at scale, and under federal coordination.
From a health freedom standpoint, this represents a shift away from individual consent-driven care and toward a system where specific populations are identified, targeted, and monitored during crises.
Introduced by Rep. Lauren Underwood—Backed by Industries Positioned to Benefit
It remains at the earliest stage of the legislative process, with no hearings or votes.
Campaign finance data shows support from healthcare systems, insurance networks, and pharmaceutical-aligned interests—industries that would directly benefit from:
expanded vaccination programs
increased federal funding streams
long-term surveillance infrastructure
The same entities positioned to carry out the bill’s mandates are among those funding its sponsor.
You can contact Rep. Underwood here and the rest of the bill’s 203 cosponsors here to voice your opposition to the expansion of federally directed vaccination targeting, real-time health surveillance during public health emergencies, demographic-based population profiling, centralized control over medical data and response, and the erosion of informed consent and individual medical autonomy.
Federal Government Moves to Identify & Increase Vaccination in Targeted Populations
The bill directs federal agencies to “increase vaccination rates of pregnant and postpartum individuals… and their children.”
Funding is explicitly tied to expanding these efforts, with hundreds of millions authorized specifically for awareness and equity campaigns that prioritize populations with “low rates of vaccination” and “racial and ethnic minority groups.”
The federal government is authorized to identify which groups are not complying with recommended vaccination schedules and focus massive resources on increasing uptake in those populations.
That is a shift from informed consent at the individual level to behavioral targeting at the population level.
$715 Million Surveillance & Vaccine Apparatus Designed for Pandemic Activation
Of the bill’s $2.46 billion total authorizations, $715 million goes directly to the combined maternal vaccine push and surveillance system:
$190 million for CDC maternal surveillance system, expanded mortality/morbidity tracking, national pregnancy risk monitoring, and NIH emergency research.
The remaining hundreds of millions are dedicated to the maternal vaccination awareness and equity campaign (including the updated $73.4 million per year authorization for 2027–2032).
The system will be used for “data collection, surveillance, and research… as a result of public health emergencies and infectious diseases.”
Real-Time Monitoring of Medical Status During Emergencies
The system tracks “diagnostic testing, confirmed cases, hospitalizations, deaths…” with updates required “at least on a monthly basis.”
This creates continuous, rolling surveillance of a defined population during a declared emergency.
In practical terms, once an emergency is declared, the federal system gains ongoing visibility into who is infected, who is hospitalized, and how individuals are progressing.
That is real-time population monitoring tied directly to health status.
Nationwide Data Integration—From Lab to Federal Database
The bill requires “capacity building… to collect and transmit… demographic data” and mandates that laboratories receive “race, ethnicity, pregnancy status… and other demographic data.”
This creates a standardized data pipeline: data originates at testing sites and hospitals, moves through state systems, and is centralized at the federal level.
Mandatory Demographic Profiling of Health Data
All collected data must be categorized by “race, ethnicity, gender, primary language, geography, socioeconomic status.”
Rather than just tracking disease, the bill would allow tracking of mothers who have the disease, where they are, and what demographic group they belong to.
That enables targeted interventions and creates a framework for population-level categorization tied to medical status.
Centralized Data Collection Before Public Release
The bill requires public reporting on the CDC website while stating “all data collected is deidentified.”
The key distinction is timing.
Data is collected in detailed individual form first, then anonymized before public release.
Federal Authority Expands Immediately After Emergency Declaration
Within 30 days of a public health emergency, “the Secretary shall issue guidance.”
This allows federal officials to control how states collect data, categorize individuals, and manage reporting systems.
A Closed-Loop System: Identify, Intervene, Track
The structure of the bill connects three functions into one system:
Identify populations through demographic data
Increase vaccination rates within those populations
Track outcomes during infectious disease events
This creates a feedback loop where data identifies targets, programs drive intervention, surveillance measures compliance and outcomes.
All operating under federal coordination during a public health emergency.
Bottom Line
H.R. 7973 establishes a federally coordinated $715 million system (within a $2.46 billion bill) that:
identifies specific populations of pregnant and postpartum women for increased vaccination
tracks their medical status in real time during pandemics
categorizes individuals by demographic characteristics
integrates data across labs, hospitals, and government systems
centralizes authority during declared emergencies
The bill lays the groundwork for a model where medical decisions are no longer purely individual—but increasingly shaped by population-level targeting, centralized guidance, and continuous monitoring during crises.
Lawmakers move avian influenza response infrastructure into study pipeline while preserving full operational framework.
A Massachusetts bill laying out a full-scale response system for H5N1 avian influenza “bird flu” is advancing through the legislature—constructing quarantine protocols, mass surveillance systems, vaccine deployment planning, and statewide clinical trial infrastructure around a single named virus before any declared widespread outbreak.
The move comes as state, federal, and international actors are orchestrating the systems, infrastructure, and response mechanisms surrounding a future bird flu pandemic.
Instead, it is specifically targeted at H5N1 bird flu, directing the state to build a coordinated response system spanning human, livestock, and wildlife populations under a single-disease framework.
On March 16, 2026, lawmakers moved the bill into a Public Health study order (H5234), advancing the proposal into a formal development phase—preserving the full framework while removing it from an immediate vote.
After sitting untouched for over a year, the bill was suddenly acted on and moved into a study process—signaling it had become important enough to preserve and develop, but not yet ready to pass in its current form.
At the 2026 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Billie Eilish accepted Song of the Year and used her moment at the podium to deliver a familiar political refrain. California, she said, is stolen land. No one is illegal on stolen land. The line drew applause. It always does. Slogans are designed for that effect. They compress moral judgment into a sentence short enough to chant, long enough to sound profound, and vague enough to resist scrutiny.
But slogans are not arguments. And when elevated to the status of moral axioms, they often do more damage than their authors intend. “No one is illegal on stolen land” is one such case. It presupposes a simple picture of California’s past, a picture in which a coherent and unified indigenous society peacefully inhabited a defined territory until an external power arrived and stole it. History does not cooperate with that picture. Nor does a serious respect for indigenous peoples as rational political agents.
Begin with a basic question. What would it mean for California to be stolen land. Theft is not merely the fact of loss. It is the wrongful taking of something from a rightful owner. To establish theft, one must identify an owner, a thing owned, and a taking that violates a recognized norm of acquisition or transfer. Each element matters. Remove any one, and the charge collapses into rhetoric.
California before European contact was not a single political entity. It was home to hundreds of distinct tribal societies, often estimated at 500 or more, speaking different languages, organized under different norms, and occupying overlapping or shifting territories. These societies traded with one another, fought with one another, enslaved captives, absorbed defeated groups, and displaced rivals. Territorial control was real, but it was not static. Land changed hands repeatedly through violence, negotiation, and migration. This was not an aberration. It was normal human history.
One might object that this observation trivializes later injustices. It does not. It clarifies them. Recognizing that indigenous societies exercised power, made war, and negotiated boundaries is not an insult. It is the opposite. It treats them as full political actors rather than as passive symbols in a modern morality play.
By the time Spanish missionaries and soldiers established a sustained presence in California in the late 18th century, indigenous California had already been transformed by forces internal to the continent. Disease, resource pressure, and intertribal conflict had reduced populations and altered political structures. Spain claimed California as a colonial possession, governed it for just over half a century, and integrated it into a broader imperial system. When Mexico gained independence, it inherited Spanish sovereignty. California then passed from Mexico to the US in 1848 through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a treaty negotiated between two recognized states following a declared war, and ratified under the international law of the era.
One can condemn the war. Many did, even at the time. But condemnation does not erase the legal fact of transfer. Mexico ceded California in exchange for $15M and the assumption of $3.25M in debt. That is not theft in any coherent legal sense. It is state succession, a mechanism by which sovereignty has changed hands throughout recorded history.
At this point, critics often shift the argument. The land may have passed legally between colonial powers, they say, but it was never theirs to give. It belonged to the tribes. This objection deserves careful treatment, because it raises the hardest questions.
The US government itself recognized these questions. In the early 1850s, federal negotiators entered into treaties with California tribes, treaties that involved the cession of land in exchange for reservations, goods, livestock, and federal recognition. These agreements were not symbolic gestures. They were attempts, however flawed, to regularize sovereignty through consent rather than extermination. Some treaties were shamefully mishandled, delayed, or ignored by Congress. That failure remains a stain. But the existence of the treaties matters. It shows that tribal leaders were not treated merely as obstacles to be cleared, but as parties capable of bargaining, choosing, and surviving.
To insist that these agreements were meaningless because tribes were too weak to consent is to deny indigenous agency altogether. It implies that native leaders were incapable of understanding tradeoffs, incapable of acting strategically, and incapable of making binding decisions for their people. That view is not morally enlightened. It is condescending.
The moral record of the US in California is mixed, and often dark. Violence, displacement, and broken promises occurred. None of that is in dispute. But moral wrongdoing does not automatically negate sovereignty. If it did, nearly every nation on earth would be illegitimate. Borders everywhere are the product of conquest, negotiation, succession, and compromise. To single out California as uniquely stolen is to apply a standard that no historical society could meet.
Nor is this history frozen in the 19th century. Over the 20th century, federal policy shifted toward recognition, restitution, and self-governance. The Rancheria Act of 1958 transferred land titles to thousands of California Indians, converting federal trust lands into property owned by tribes and individuals. These were not gestures of guilt without substance. They were real assets. Many became the foundation for modern tribal enterprises.
Today, dozens of California tribes operate gaming and hospitality businesses generating billions in annual revenue. These enterprises fund schools, healthcare, housing, and infrastructure. They are expressions of sovereignty, not relics of victimhood. They demonstrate that the relationship between tribes and the US has been dynamic, contested, and evolving, not a single unresolved act of theft.
This brings us back to the slogan. “No one is illegal on stolen land” collapses all of this into a single moral accusation. It erases centuries of indigenous conflict. It ignores treaties, compensation, and legal succession. It treats sovereignty as something that can only be lost, never acquired. And it reduces indigenous peoples to rhetorical props, useful for condemning the present but denied their past complexity.
There is also a deeper incoherence. If California is stolen land in a way that nullifies all subsequent law, then property itself loses meaning. Ownership becomes arbitrary. Borders dissolve. So do contracts. If the original wrong poisons everything that follows, then no later arrangement can ever be legitimate. That conclusion is not radical justice. It is moral nihilism.
The irony is that those who repeat this slogan do not live by it. Billie Eilish, like many wealthy Californians, has sought restraining orders to keep unwanted people off her Malibu property. She asserts exclusive control over land, calls the police to enforce it, and relies on the very legal system whose legitimacy the slogan denies. If no one is illegal on stolen land, on what basis is anyone excluded. What right does she have to draw a boundary and say no farther.
The same question applies to intellectual property. If songs are written on stolen land using stolen resources, what grounds remain for exclusive copyright. Why should anyone be barred from reproducing, selling, or profiting from them. If the past invalidates all present claims, then everything belongs to everyone. Few who chant the slogan are prepared to accept that conclusion.
History is not a morality tale with permanent villains and permanent victims. It is a record of human beings acting under constraint, making choices, committing wrongs, striking bargains, and adapting. California’s history is no exception. Land there has changed hands by spear and treaty, by war and payment, by collapse and consolidation. To call that entire process theft is not clarity. It is theater.
California is not stolen land in any meaningful legal or philosophical sense. Acknowledging past injustices does not require us to deny the legitimacy of the present. And respecting indigenous peoples does not require us to pretend they were something less than fully human political actors. The slogan may be catchy. But it is false. And falsity, even when fashionable, is not justice.
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Every tyranny perpetuates itself by indoctrinating the children. The Globalist destructocrats are following the same playbook. Is it too late for the children you care about? Too late for us?
Spoiler alert: this is a long post tying several threats together. I urge you to take the time to read it and share it as widely as you can. And join the Council of Concerned Citizens (C3) to, quite literally, end the deadly globalist control while the window of opportunity is still open.
“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”
Although widely attributed to the Greek philosopher Aristotle (probably apocryphally), Jesuit founder Ignatius of Loyola, Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier and philosopher mystic Rudolf Steiner, no one knows who first articulated the idea that a child is stamped indelibly by early conditioning, experiences, beliefs, rewards, successes and failures.
No normal human being who has cared for a young child has ever failed to notice the importance of those experiences, nor has any educator, nutritionist, doctor, psychologist, marketer, proselytizer or tyrant. Nor have the globalists.
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We all understand intuitively (probably because it is the truth of our own origins) that early learning/conditioning/programming/training/socialization is, in effect, a capture system of mind, body and spirit. For most of us, of course, that stimulates us to do our best to induce alignment with truth and positive values, both inner and outer, to sustain and support the life that will inevitably follow from the deep inner reality of those early years.
Lest we forget, mind control is a very real and powerfully corrosive tool of the globalist cabal, etching carefully crafted “reality” into the minds, hearts, bodies and souls of the denizens of their envisioned future world. In fact, through mind control and conditioning, we can be induced to believe, repeat and cling to, gibberish, illogic, rage and orchestrated destruction of ourselves and everything that sustains us.
War, for example, would be a pretty good example of that. Try this thought experiment for a moment: say out loud, “All wars are bankers’ wars”.
Now substitute the word “globalists” for “bankers”. Say it again, with the substitution: “All wars are globalists’ wars”. Next, insert the wars that are flaring or being readied, like this:
”All Gaza wars are globalists’ wars”,
“All illegal immigrant vs. ICE wars are globalists’ wars.”
“All bioweapon/gene therapy wars are globalists’ wars”,
“All gender ideology wars on children are globalists’ wars.”,
“All agricultural destruction wars on the food supply are globalists’ wars.”,
“All propagandemic wars on informed consent and personal rights are globalists’ wars.”.
“All weather modification wars on the planet and its inhabitants are globalists’ wars”.”Leave a comment
You get the idea. Nothing is by accident. For example,
EVERY SINGLE COVID “vaccine”, from the US, UK, China, Russia, India, every single one of them contained heavy metals like Chromium (100% of the vials), arsenic (82% of the vials), 12 out of the 15 cytotoxic (cell-poisoning) lanthanides used in electronic devices and optogenetics (!)
Promethium, Pm, is radioactive. If these toxins are found in diverse lots of EVERY Covid jab from around the world, it is because they are intended to be there. By design. After all, bioweapons are not intended to be either safe for the recipients or effective in protecting their health. They are supposed to be safe for the deployers because they are disguised as something else and effective in weakening and killing their victims. The rest is propaganda and deadly deceit.
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Do all regular vaccines contain lanthanides? If they do, we can safely conclude that they are all intended to cause biological chaos, as part of the war on our health and survival. If they do not, and available information would suggest that they do not, it must be assumed that since ALL of the Covid jabs contain them, it is by design.2 Do all vaccines contain heavy metals? In fact, many do contain mercury and most contain aluminum. So, we can safely conclude that they are all intended to cause biological chaos, as part of the war on our health and survival.
All wars are globalists’ wars.
And the globalists are proven themselves over the ages more than eager and willing to dispose of huge numbers of us at their whim, bringing the rest of us to destitution and misery at their pleasure and profit. Nothing has changed.
A note here about ascribing racial, religious or political identities to these monstrous traitors to humanity. They have no nationality, religion or affiliation to any of the things that move and motivate us. Their only affiliation is to their own psychopathic perceived good. They are not Jewish monsters, or Catholic monsters or German monsters or white monsters or Zionist monsters or colonialist monsters or Marxist monsters. They are monsters whose ONLY identify is as centers of power and wealth, whatever it costs us. It is important to recall that, to the globalists, the divisions that matter so much to us, race, nations, religions, economic systems, political systems, ethnic heritage, human rights and needs, matter not at all. We need to see beyond those divisions in order to see them at all, in fact.
There is, after all, a reason that so many people were so readily manipulated into believing irrational nonsense re: COVID, bioweapons dressed up as vaccines, lockdowns, masks as barriers to viruses, and on and on and on, to say nothing of, for instance, massive steel and concrete skyscrapers crashing down in their own footprints when struck by an airplane (WTC 1, 2) or not (WTC 7) with surviving passports and all.
This programming has been going on for a very, very long time. And it is still going on, right now, today, with high-level intensity in our schools, just as well as in our world.
Once again, Connie Shields has written compellingly about the “Look Over There” Davos theater while something very important, and largely unnoticed, was going on. Here is her outstanding substack:
I think there is, however, more to the Davos theatrical production than Mark Carney’s absurd “Power of the Powerless” “Us medium sized guys ain’t gonna get pushed around by those big hegemons no more! No sir! We got us some powerful new rules now and we are, by God, gonna use ‘em!”3 and Donald Trump’s ridiculous cult of personality “I’m big and I’m scary tough and I got some serious superpowers you ain’t even dreamed about, and I’m gonna take what I want because I can and you should be grateful that’s all I’m taking because you and your puny little runt brothers couldn’t stop me if you tried!”4
Here’s what I think is going on, including my predictions for what we will see on the national and international scene in the next several months:
Davos and the entire geopolitical Venezuela/Greenland/Cuba/…. expansion by the US, is carefully scripted. The cartoon character roles have been assigned: Carney, the consummate globalist, Macron, his clearly controlled sidekick, and Trump, desperate to be the beloved populist hero, but secretly serving the globalist agenda (No? have you forgotten Operation Stargate?) Their job at Davos is to pretend to be in a huge squabble over which forces control the world while cementing the actual hegemony of the Globalist cabal.
The US could set up as many bases as it likes in Greenland without seizing it. The Greenland grab is designed not to protect anyone, but to fracture NATO.
The Venezuelan kidnap of a sitting President and essential confiscation of its rich and valuable resources is not about oil, of which the US has plenty. It is designed, along with the coming capture of Cuba and possible seizure of other Caribbean, South and Central American territories, to shatter the trade and military alliances and allegiances that function similarly to the way that NATO and trade agreements do in Europe.
The US is putting out the preparatory propaganda to seize control of Cuba next.
I predict some sort of emergency-based “need” will arise in the next few months ‘forcing” the US to commandeer, seize, annex, capture or otherwise take control of someplace in the Pacific. Okinawa? Taiwan? Tasmania?” New Zeeland? Islands in the South China Sea? the Philippines? Someplace needs to be seized to destroy the same class of alliances: military and economic. Of course, right now all the land in the Pacific actually belongs to other sovereign nations but never mind that. We have moved Back to the Future into the era of the New Monroe Doctrine and the gunboat diplomacy of 21st Century weapons, rather than 19th Century ones.
While all of this is going on, the United Nations will play its part as the old, feeble, inept and laughable dotard whose hold on power has slipped so he needs to be replaced by the young, heroic and dashing figure who emerges out of the chaos of the breakdown of the old order.
In this case, it is likely to be the heroic, larger-than-life, revitalized and reinvigorated US swooshing in with a New [WORLD] Order, the Board of Peace which is not like the UN at all!
It is not corrupt like the UN. No Siree!
It is not impotent like the UN. Not even a little bit! Good ol’ US Can Do at work!
It is not the plaything of the shockingly wealthy individuals and corporations serving the money system like the UN does. You betcha it stands ready to defend truth, justice and the common man!
It is based on our shared values, with wealth shared among those who can hold onto it best. That way the worthiest get the most!
It is based on might, which generates automatic right! That’s the American Way, per the modern version of the Monroe Doctrine, after all! See above!
So, this swashbuckling hero gets to put a fresh new face on the same old, same old globalist tyranny.
And this is pretty dim and grim except…. This power vacuum is a shining opportunity for us, right now.
The disruption so carefully scripted opens up the possibility for a different reorganization to be superimposed on the one the power brokers have in mind. History is full of moments where the intended outcome of a disruption turned out to be quite different.
And that is what this carefully scripted theatrical gong show offers us: As the UN-dominated hegemony is replaced with the next iteration, We, the People, swoop in and lean very, VERY heavily on Congress to do what we, in our massive numbers, force them to do:
Amend the Disengaging Entirely From the United Nations Debacle Act of 2025 (now before both the House and the Senate) to require unwinding all UN Regulatory Capture at every level of governance and
Prohibit the US from participating in any organization or structure with the potential to become a world government.
Once those amendments are in place, Congress must pass the bill and, as it already requires, exist the UN and eject all of its parts from our shores. Executing effective removal of the UN’s Regulatory Capture is the working end of this bill since membership in the organization is no longer significant, now that it has captured our professions, economy, municipalities, regulations, education, transportation and freedom of speech. Clearly, eliminating the Regulatory Capture, and detoxing from the UN parasitic infestation we are being consumed by is essential. That’s why we are asking for as many people as possible to join the Council of Concerned Citizens (C3). Learn more here: Join C3 here:
“…The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied — the WTO, the UN, the COP, the very architecture of collective problem-solving — are under threat. As a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions that they must develop greater strategic autonomy in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains. And this impulse is understandable.
A country that cannot feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.
But let’s be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable.
And there’s another truth: if great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate.
Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty. They’ll buy insurance, increase options in order to rebuild sovereignty — sovereignty that was once grounded in rules but will increasingly be anchored in the ability to withstand pressure…..” Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum – National | Globalnews.ca
“…After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it, but we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now? So now our country and the world face much greater risks than it did ever before, because of missiles, because of nuclear, because of weapons of warfare that I can’t even talk about.
Two weeks ago, they saw weapons that nobody ever heard of. They weren’t able to fire one shot at us. They said, ‘What happened?’ Everything was discombobulated. They said, ‘We’ve got them in our sights. Press the trigger.’ And nothing happened. No anti-aircraft missiles went up. There was one that went up about 30 feet and crashed down, right next to the people that sent it. They said, ‘What the hell is going on those?’ Those defensive systems were made by Russia and by China. So, they’re going to go back to the drawing boards, I guess.
Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory, sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia and China. That’s exactly where it is, right smack in the middle. Wasn’t important, nearly, when we gave it back. You know, when we gave it back, it wasn’t the same as it is now. It’s not important for any other reason. You know, everyone talks about the minerals, there’s so many places… There’s no rare earth. No such thing as rare earth. There’s rare processing, but there’s so much rare earth, then to get to this rare earth, you have to go through hundreds of feet of ice.
That’s not the reason we need it. We need it for strategic national security and international security. This enormous unsecured island is actually part of North America, on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere. That’s our territory. It is therefore a core national security interest of the United States of America, and in fact, it’s been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside threats from entering our hemisphere, and we’ve done it very successfully. We’ve never been stronger than we are now.
That’s why American presidents have sought to purchase Greenland for nearly two centuries. You know, for two centuries they’ve been trying to do it. They should have kept it after World War Two, but they had a different president. That’s all right, people think differently. Much more necessary now than it was at that time.
However, in 2019 Denmark said that they would spend over $200 million to strengthen Greenland’s defences. But as you know, they spent less than 1% of that amount, 1%. No sign of Denmark there. And I say that with great respect for Denmark, whose people I love, whose leaders are very good.
It’s the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it, and make it so that it’s good for Europe, and safe for Europe, and good for us. And that’s the reason I’m seeking immediate negotiations to, once again, discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States – just as we have acquired many other territories throughout our history. As many of the European nations have, they’ve acquired. There’s nothing wrong with it. Many of them. Some went in reverse, actually, if you look. Some had great, vast wealth, great, vast lands, all over the world. They went in reverse. They stuck back where they started. That happens too, but some grow.
But this would not be a threat to NATO. This would greatly enhance the security of the entire alliance, the NATO Alliance. The United States is treated very unfairly by NATO. I want to tell you that. When you think about it, nobody can dispute it. We give so much, and we get so little in return. And I’ve been a critic of NATO for many years, and yet I’ve done more to help NATO than any other president, by far than any other person. You wouldn’t have NATO if I didn’t get involved in my first term….” Davos 2026: Special Address by US President Donald J Trump | World Economic Forum
Government preparation for large-scale mRNA vaccination of livestock.
Chinese government–funded researchers have confirmed that they tested an mRNA bird flu vaccine in lactating dairy cows, injecting milk-producing livestock with an mRNA–lipid nanoparticle formulation and then deliberately exposing the animals to live H5N1 influenza virus inside high-containment laboratories.
The peer-reviewed study published on Monday, in the journal Research, is titled “Protective Efficacy of a Hemagglutinin-Based mRNA Vaccine Against H5N1 Influenza Virus Challenge in Lactating Dairy Cows.”
The experiment signals that governments are actively preparing mRNA platforms for potential large-scale use in livestock populations, extending mRNA deployment beyond humans and into the food supply.
mRNA Vaccine Administered to Food-Producing Animals
According to the study, researchers injected an mRNA vaccine into lactating Holstein dairy cows, meaning animals actively producing milk.
The authors write:
“Six healthy lactating dairy cows were intramuscularly immunized with 500 μg of the mRNA vaccine twice, with a 3-week interval between doses.”
The animals were sourced from an external farm:
“Lactating Holstein cows, 3 to 5 years of age, obtained from a local dairy farm, were used in the challenge experiment.”
The vaccine was an mRNA–lipid nanoparticle (mRNA–LNP) formulation encoding the hemagglutinin protein of an avian influenza virus:
“We developed a monovalent, cattle-codon-optimized mRNA–LNP vaccine encoding the HA protein.”
Deliberate Infection with H5N1 Pathogen
After receiving the mRNA injections, both vaccinated and unvaccinated cows were moved into animal biosafety level 3+ (ABSL-3+) laboratories and deliberately infected with a purportedly live H5N1 influenza virus.
The paper states:
“3 vaccinated and 3 unvaccinated lactating dairy cows were transferred into the animal biosafety level 3+ (ABSL-3+) facility for the challenge study.”
The virus was said to be administered through multiple routes, including direct injection into the mammary glands:
“All cows received a DC/24 virus challenge administered via both the intranasal and intramammary routes.”
The authors further specify:
“3 doses were directly inoculated into separate mammary quarters via the teat.”
All work involving the pathogen was performed inside Chinese state-authorized high-containment laboratories.
The methods section states:
“The procedures involving live HPAI viruses were performed within certified BSL-3 and ABSL-3+ laboratories at the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute (HVRI), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).”
The H5N1 viruses used were not simple field samples but laboratory-generated strains.
The authors cite a prior peer-reviewed study for the virus’s creation and laboratory handling methods, rather than detailing the generation process in this paper.
“The challenge dairy cow H5N1 virus (DC/24)… was generated as previously described.”
Chinese Government Funding
The study was funded entirely by Chinese state and government research programs.
The funding disclosure reads:
“This research was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China… the National Natural Science Foundation of China… the Innovation Program of the CAAS… the natural science foundation of Heilongjiang Province… [and] the Central Public Interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund.”
All authors are affiliated with Chinese government research institutes or state-linked laboratories, including the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and China’s National High Containment Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention.
Bottom Line
The paper confirms that China is now testing mRNA vaccine platforms directly in livestock, including milk-producing animals, using live avian influenza viruses under high-containment laboratory conditions.
The study documents the use of modern mRNA technology not only in humans or laboratory animals, but in food-supply species that interface directly with agriculture, trade, and public health systems.
Despite claiming to have withdrawn from the international organization.
Despite claiming to have formally withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Trump administration has confirmed it is still in active discussions with the agency about participating in next year’s global influenza vaccine strain-selection process—at the same time the U.S. government is funding influenza bird flu gain-of-function research and a $500 million influenza vaccine initiative.
On January 22, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the United States had completed its withdrawal from the WHO, apparently ending all funding, recalling U.S. personnel, and terminating participation in WHO committees, governance bodies, and technical working groups.
During the same briefing, administration officials acknowledged that influenza remains an open channel for engagement.
“HHS left the door open to some continued collaboration, however. Asked if the US would participate in an upcoming WHO-led meeting to decide the composition of next year’s flu vaccines, the administration said conversations about that are still ongoing.”
The statement was made during a call with reporters following the withdrawal announcement.
This places influenza in a separate policy category—one where U.S. withdrawal exists on paper, but coordination with the same international decision system continues.
It raises questions about who is actually setting U.S. influenza policy, and why the one disease tied to global strain forecasting, pandemic modeling, and mass countermeasure production remains exempt from the break.
WHO Exit With Influenza Carve-Out
HHS stated the U.S. has:
Terminated all WHO funding
Recalled all personnel and contractors
Ceased participation in WHO technical working groups and governance bodies
Yet the administration declined to rule out involvement in the WHO’s influenza strain-selection process, which determines the purported viral lineages used in seasonal vaccines worldwide and shapes pharmaceutical manufacturing timelines.
Domestic Influenza Programs Continue to Expand
While negotiating ongoing coordination with the WHO, the federal government is simultaneously expanding influenza and bird flu research and vaccine programs inside the United States.
In 2025, HHS launched a $500 million federal influenza vaccine initiative described as a “gold standard” program designed to accelerate strain updates, enable rapid manufacturing, and support pre-pandemic deployment.
Federal agencies including the NIH, NIAID, USDA, and the Department of Defense continue funding laboratory research on avian and human influenza viruses that deliberately alter viral properties for study, including:
receptor binding changes,
mammalian transmissibility modeling,
chimeric viral backbones,
immune escape features.
These experiments are described in peer-reviewed publications and supported through federal research grants and biodefense contracting mechanisms.
U.S. agencies are also funding H5N1 bird flu vaccine platforms using reverse-genetics systems, chimeric viral constructs, and self-amplifying RNA technologies intended for pandemic countermeasure development.
Integrated Influenza Infrastructure
The WHO coordinates global influenza surveillance and strain forecasting.
The U.S. continues negotiating technical access to that system.
Federal agencies fund laboratory modification of influenza viruses and parallel vaccine platforms.
Pharmaceutical manufacturing and preparedness planning rely on the same surveillance and strain data.
Taken together, these disclosures show that despite the publicized WHO withdrawal, the United States remains functionally embedded in the WHO-centered influenza system—where global strain selection, federally funded virus engineering, and government-backed vaccine platforms converge inside the same international pandemic planning architecture.
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