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After receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from Martine Rothblatt at SynBioBeta today, Paul Stamets proceeded to give a chilling talk on the H5N1 pandemic in the making:

“We could be on the verge of a massive new pandemic. Politics is interfering with the science; there is a 10% chance this is the next pandemic in my opinion.

1 in 5 milk samples have the signs of the virus. Pasteurization temperatures are insufficient to eliminate the virus. Some is getting through, and we are in danger of selecting for thermo-tolerant strains.

COVID killed less than 0.1% of patients. H5H1 kills nearly 100% of birds, and over 50% of humans who contracted it since 2022. Farmers don’t trust the Feds and fear being shut down. We could have Patient 0’s all over the country. It is airborne between birds and may very easily spread to other animals.”

2 responses to “The latent danger of H5N1”

  1. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Stamets on stage

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  2. gsikich1 Avatar
    gsikich1

    I wrote my book, "Protecting Your Business in a Pandemic" when H5N1 threatened in 2008 – 2010 timeframe. WHO declared a pandemic (Swine Flu) if you recall and was criticized for an early declaration. H5N1 never made the transition to widespread human to human contagion (thank goodness). However, mutations keep occurring and now the threat is becoming more apparent. Will we see the great pandemic (Spanish Flu) or a lesser, yet still lethal pandemic that outstrips COVID?

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