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Search results for "New mutations help the H5N1 bird flu virus infect cows more easily"

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Instagram posts stated on June 18, 2024 in an Instagram post:
The Gates Foundation “awarded $9.5 million to UW-Madison to make H5N1 bird flu transmissible to humans.”
By Madison Czopek• June 28, 2024
Instagram posts stated on May 12, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Bird flu in the U.S. is a "scamdemic" timed to coincide with the 2024 presidential elections “by design.”
By Jeff Cercone• May 24, 2024
Facebook posts stated on May 18, 2023 in a Facebook post:
"The NEXT pandemic is here and children are the target, says Bill Gates.”
By Jeff Cercone• May 25, 2023
John Sharp stated on June 18, 2012 in a speech in Austin:
Says scientists predict "sometime in the future, an event that will kill … somewhere between 80 and 90 million people."
By Sue Owen• September 25, 2012
Facebook posts stated on February 28, 2020 in posts on social media:
“Every election year has a disease” ... SARS in 2004; avian flu in 2008; swine flu in 2010; MERS in 2012; Ebola in 2014 and 2018; Zika in 2016 and the coronavirus in 2020.
By Emily Venezky• March 11, 2020
Viral image stated on May 28, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Pfizer sued Barbara O’Neill “because she exposed secrets that will keep everyone safe from the bird flu outbreak.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 31, 2024
Instagram posts stated on December 06, 2024 in an Instagram post:
"Vaccine researcher Peter Hotez says multiple viruses will be unleashed on America the day after Trump takes office."
By Jeff Cercone• December 6, 2024
Facebook posts stated on April 06, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says the Asian, Hong Kong, swine and bird flus each “killed more people than coronavirus.”
By Tom Kertscher• April 14, 2020
Glenn Beck stated on October 15, 2014 in a broadcast of the "Glenn Beck Program":
"Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates."
By Jon Greenberg• October 16, 2014
Facebook posts stated on June 07, 2022 in a Facebook post:
95-item list of food-destroying incidents demonstrates that “you are duped if you think they aren’t planning a food shortage.”
By Madison Czopek• June 15, 2022
Karoline Leavitt stated on January 28, 2025 in White House press briefing:
The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”
By Jeff Cercone• January 30, 2025
Facebook posts stated on December 20, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Maybe they’re just calling the common cold … the omicron variant.”
By Bill McCarthy• December 20, 2021
The Gateway Pundit stated on October 06, 2021 in articles and social media:
Dr. Anthony Fauci and U.S. health officials plotted “for a new avian flu virus to enforce universal flu vaccination.”
By Tom Kertscher• October 14, 2021
Ron DeSantis stated on January 17, 2024 in an event in Hampton, N.H.:
“Every booster you take, you’re more likely to get COVID as a result of it.”
By Louis Jacobson• January 19, 2024
Mary Felzkowski stated on February 15, 2022 in Public statement:
“Over-vaccination causes faster mutation of the (COVID-19) virus, which causes a super virus we may not have the ability to fight off.”
By Madeline Heim• March 1, 2022
Facebook posts stated on April 01, 2022 in in a post:
2004 video shows Anthony Fauci is ignoring science on natural immunity with regard to COVID-19.
By Jeff Cercone• April 8, 2022
Instagram posts stated on October 17, 2022 in an Instagram post:
“Boston University CREATES a new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate.”
By Jeff Cercone• October 20, 2022
Facebook posts stated on November 28, 2021 in a Facebook post:
"Pathogens evolve to become less, not more, virulent over time” because otherwise, “they’d destroy their hosts which they depend on to live.”
By Vivian Lam• December 8, 2021
Facebook posts stated on June 15, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“The unvaccinated have escaped every single strain or 'variant’” of SARS-CoV-2.
By Andy Nguyen• June 22, 2021
Facebook posts stated on May 19, 2021 in a video on Facebook:
COVID-19 vaccines are creating the coronavirus variants.
By Samantha Putterman• May 28, 2021

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