The UK Health Security Agency has commissioned covid-like modelling for bird flu in case human-to-human transmission is discovered in the UK.
A new technical group that’s been set up to create modelling for a potential human bird flu outbreak includes UKHSA chief medical adviser Prof Susan Hopkins and Britains very own lockdown architect Professor Neil Ferguson.
Best known as Professor lockdown, Feruson resigned from his post on the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), after being caught violating his own covid rules.
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He also once warned that up to 200 million people could die worldwide during bird flu pandemic.
The Mail Online reports: Professor Neil Ferguson, tasked with forecasting coronavirus-style scenarios in case the pathogen mutates to spread among humans easier, made the dire prediction in 2005 when fears of an avian influenza crisis were similarly high.
It comes as two cases of the deadly H5N1 strain have been confirmed in Cambodia, following the death of an 11-year-old girl due to the virus. Her father is also infected, while a dozen more people are being tested.
The case has sparked concerns that the virus could be spreading between humans.
The Government has now stepped up its preparation for a UK outbreak, with officials modelling how bird flu may take off among people and probing whether Covid-style lateral flow tests could detect the virus.
Official contingency plans, drawn up 18 years ago, warned of a death toll of up to 710,000 in the UK alone due to flu.
It was published during the heightened concerns about bird flu.
The 710,000 figure is based on half of the population becoming infected, with a fatality rate of around 2.5 per cent.
That doomsday death toll is three times higher than that of Covid pandemic, which stands at around 220,000 since March 2020.
The Avian Influenza Technical Group, part of the UK Health Security Agency, is now working on fresh modelling scenarios on how bird flu could take off in Britain.
Professor Ferguson, an epidemiologist whose chilling projections of the Covid outbreak led the Government to impose the first lockdown, is one of those in the group.
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Ferguson the most infamously notorious agent of disinformation imaginable? Again enabled into a position if trust where he can get it all wrong again maximising profits for big Pharma? Costing taxpayers billions? Why would they choose him.?
because he does what they tell him for $$$
can you say “gain of function” you know that is what they are doing, if they have not already done it.
Limeys are getting dumber everyday.
bird flu is not dangerous nor was covid but the govt response is dangerous to free humans.
Those that died was from incorrect hospital treatment such as intubation
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