ENVIRONMENT Minister Murray Watt has announced that the Federal Government will vaccinate wild birds because federal biosecurity officers using the dodgy and discredited PCR would have us believe there’s some sort of avian flu crisis.
But Mr Watt has been forced to admit the obvious, that a broad vaccination of wild birds is neither practical nor feasible because the vaccine requires two doses, “making it too difficult to catch wild birds twice”.
However, the government will vaccinate wild birds where possible, though the main priority is protecting vulnerable native species held in captivity. Poultry will be exempt, possibly because vaccinated poultry is banned in some markets.
The vaccine is the traditional “dead virus” or inactivated H5 bird flu vaccine manufactured by the veterinary pharmaceutical company Zoetis. It is not the mRNA variety.
Bird flu or avian influenza was first discovered in 1878 in northern Italy by researcher Edoardo Perroncito, who initially described it as a severe, contagious poultry disease causing high mortality known as “fowl plague”.
However it has never been a major issue until modern-day governments seized upon it as an excuse for mass culls of poultry livestock and the imposition of biosecurity regimes. Interestingly, the first major cull for avian influenza was in Hong Kong in 1997 when the Chinese Communist Party took over administration of the city.
In March of that year the H5N1 virus was first isolated during localized outbreaks on chicken farms in Hong Kong. In May a three-year-old boy was allegedly infected and died.
When a number of human infections appeared again in December, the new Hong Kong administrators declared a city-wide poultry cull and eliminated the entire flock. The administrators had also imposed a highly restrictive new national security law in June.
The obvious question here is, did the new CCP-appointed administration use the biosecurity scare to take away freedoms and food security from the Hong Kong population?