Is Trump About To Face Another Major Health Pandemic?

Experts believe the Trump administration will inherit a bird flu outbreak as he’s set to be inaugurated.

Currently, 800 dairy herds and 60 human cases have been confirmed in the United States.

Currently, there has been no human-to-human transmission of the virus, but experts worry the virus may mutate and result in a major pandemic.

Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, stated that under the Biden administration, “It is absolutely clear that none of the lessons that can be drawn from the response to COVID-19 were drawn or applied to the H5N1 presence in first wildlife, and then in some livestock species, and then in multiple livestock species in the United States.”

🚨 JUST IN: The CDC has just announced the first Bird Flu case showing mutations, and are now warning we could “see another pandemic.”

Convenient timing! Just over 20 DAYS before President Trump takes office again.

NOPE! WE’RE NOT DOING THIS AGAIN. pic.twitter.com/GSUnAZjUv9

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 28, 2024

Check out what The Washington Examiner reported:

President-elect Donald Trump is likely to struggle with the outbreak of bird flu, or H5N1, among livestock and wildlife in the United States, which experts are concerned could become a threat to humans should the spread of the virus not be contained.

The newly circulating bird flu virus has ravaged the wild bird population, but public health experts and government health officials became increasingly alarmed about it starting in April when the first case of the illness was reported in dairy cattle.

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Since then, more than 800 dairy herds across the U.S. have been infected, and 60 human cases have been confirmed, all derived from direct contact with infected cows or poultry.

So far, there have been no cases of human-to-human transmission of bird flu, but scientists warn it is possible the virus could mutate to become more infectious to humans if it is allowed to continue to spread among livestock.

Almost five years ago, the first Trump administration strained to contain the initial outbreak of COVID-19, which arrived in January 2020 and took approximately 1.2 American lives in the first two years.

President Joe Biden and his Cabinet also struggled to control COVID-19, leading some medical experts to fear the same policy mistakes could be repeated should bird flu become a threat to humans.

Richard Ebright, professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told the Washington Examiner that there is “no evidence whatsoever” that federal agencies have learned their lesson since 2020.

“Under the current administration, it is absolutely clear that none of the lessons that can be drawn from the response to COVID-19 were drawn or applied to the H5N1 presence in first wildlife, and then in some livestock species, and then in multiple livestock species in the United States,” Ebright said. “So, the same errors that were made in early 2020 are being made by the same agency.”

Ebright: "Under the current administration…no…lessons that can be drawn from the response to COVID…were drawn or applied to the H5N1 presence first in wildlife, and then in some livestock species, and then in multiple livestock species in the US" https://t.co/aRhXVLCDzp

— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) December 30, 2024