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Bills in 3 states would declare COVID mRNA shots ‘weapons of mass destruction’

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:41:59 +0000

Bills in 3 states would declare COVID mRNA shots ‘weapons of mass destruction’
Lawmakers in Tennessee, Arizona, and Minnesota have introduced legislation to prohibit the possession and distribution of dangerous mRNA shots, which are linked to thousands of deaths.

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Mar 23, 2026
(LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks from original included below]) — Three U.S. states – Minnesota, Arizona, and Tennessee – have now introduced legislation designating COVID-19 mRNA injections as “Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction.”

Last year, Minnesota was the first to propose a law criminalizing mRNA jabs, followed by Arizona earlier this year and now Tennessee. Idaho, Iowa, Montana, South Carolina and Tennessee had previously sought to restrict the use of mRNA technology.

“As all of these declarations mount, it’s only a matter of time before these injections become outlawed,” predicted Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, epidemiologist and administrator at the McCullough Foundation, in a recent podcast.

Hulscher noted that if the Arizona bill gets enacted into law, “Possessing, distributing, or manufacturing these shots will constitute terrorism-related charges and life imprisonment.”

“And rightfully so,” he added, “given that these shots have killed, injured, and disabled millions upon millions of people across the globe, rivaling hundreds of Hiroshima nuclear attacks.”

Hulscher has previously asserted that the “COVID-19 mRNA Injections violate the Biological Weapons Convention, Nuremberg Code, Helsinki Declaration, and U.S. Constitution.”

The Minnesota bill clearly states, “It is the intent of the legislature to designate mRNA injections and products as weapons of mass destruction.”

Tennessee’s bill, known as the “mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act,” which was introduced last week, prohibits “the manufacture, acquisition, possession, or making accessible to others of mRNA injections and products; requires state and local government officials to use all lawful means necessary to investigate or enforce suspected violations; punishes violations the same as manufacturing, acquiring, possessing, or transferring a weapon of mass destruction, which is a Class B felony.”

mRNA vaccines ‘were never safe nor effective’

mRNA-based injections instruct human cells to produce a genetically engineered version of coronavirus “spike protein” in order to trigger an immune system response.

Developers of the mRNA vaccines failed to foresee that, once inside the body, the repeated development of the spike proteins can’t be controlled. For some recipients of the vaccines, their bodies became a human factory for the production of the spike protein, able to travel via the bloodstream from the injection site to their entire body, including major organs, the brain, liver, spleen, bone marrow, and reproductive organs.

As the immune system does its job attacking the cells it recognizes as “infected” due to the presence of the spike proteins, it attacks those organs and tissues, causing inflammation, myocarditis, and grotesque blood clots.

LifeSiteNews reported last fall that more than 81,000 physicians, scientists, researchers, and concerned citizens, 240 elected government officials, and 17 professional public health and physician organizations have demanded withdrawal of the COVID-19 shots from the market.

The total number of COVID-19 shot deaths reported to VAERS-adjusted deaths exceeds 589,000 in the U.S. and 17 million around the globe.

"Brain Death" is Not Death - Dr. Paul Byrne

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:58:26 +0000

Link to an audio of a podcast with Dr. Byrne. He explains how the term "brain death" is not death.
The podcast is at bottom of the article: Dr. Byrne- why brain death is wrong

Unconscious Patients Who Were Almost Killed for "Parts"

Dr. Paul Byrne is a pediatrician and neonatologist from Toledo, Ohio who early in his career pioneered the development of ventilators and other medical devices tailored to children born pre-term.
He is also a world renowned expert on, and opponent of, “brain death” for determining actual death, and has spoken and testified in numerous venues including several courts of law and the Vatican. So, Dr Paul is the perfect mix of pediatrician and brain death expert to help us understand two recent situations, including his personal intervention for the parents of Jahi–the 13 year-old California girl who had cardiac arrest during a tonsillectomy and was declared brain dead by hospital staff. But her parents challenged their diagnosis, and with assistance from Dr Byrne, were able to have Jahi transferred to a medical facility that would insert a feeding tube to prevent starvation.

Another person
Larry Black was a 22-year-old patient in SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital, admitted after being shot in the head on March 24, 2019. A week later he was taken to surgery to have his organs removed for donation. The problem was that his heart was still beating, and he had not been declared brain dead. Just as the team was getting ready to operate, Dr. Zhony Zohny - Black’s doctor – came running into the room and demanded that the team stop. They did.

Today Black is 28, a musician and the father of three children. He requires physical therapy because he has lingering issues from the gunshot wound. But he is very much alive, and remembers clearly the events leading to his almost-murder.

Advice for you
Remove "organ donor" from your drivers' license and from the national organ donor registry.

Pediatricians call for ‘elimination of nonmedical exemptions’ from childhood vaccines

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:14:13 +0000

Pediatricians call for ‘elimination of nonmedical exemptions’ from childhood vaccines
The vaccine cabal realizes that the public is now aware of the serious and irreversible neurological, developmental,

and immune-related risks associated with childhood hyper-vaccination.

Pediatrician or nurse giving an intramuscular injection of a vaccine to arm of a baby girl during coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak
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Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Jul 31, 2025
(Focal Points) — The Bio‑Pharmaceutical Complex is in panic mode.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued a new policy statement calling for the complete elimination of all nonmedical vaccine exemptions for child care and school attendance. That means no religious exemptions, no philosophical exemptions — only medical exemptions granted under tightly controlled conditions.

Why now? Because the vaccine cabal has realized that the public is now aware of the serious and irreversible neurological, developmental, and immune-related health risks associated with childhood hyper-vaccination of inadequately tested products.

READ: Massachusetts bill would eliminate religious exemptions for childhood vaccines

A new CDC‑funded national survey by Vasudevan et al has exposed a collapse in parental confidence in the childhood vaccine schedule:

Only ~40% of pregnant participants and parents of young children said they would accept all recommended vaccines on schedule.
About 60% planned to delay, refuse, or were undecided about one or more routine childhood vaccines.
One‑third (33%) of parents of young children already refuse some or all vaccines outright.
Nearly half (48%) of first‑time pregnant women are undecided about vaccinating their baby at all.

This is why the vaccine cabal is scrambling to slam the door shut on choice — they know if freedom remains, vaccine uptake will continue to crater. Instead of asking why so many parents are rejecting their products, they are doubling down on coercion and mandates.

The public is awake now. The more they push, the more families will resist.

Reprinted with permission from Focal Points.

For respectful communications only: contact the American Academy of Pediatrics here.

Scientists working on mRNA shots for ‘every imaginable infectious disease,’ researcher claims

Thu, 01 May 2025 14:23:40 +0000

Scientists working on mRNA shots for ‘every imaginable infectious disease,’ researcher claims
The dangers of mRNA shots are so well documented that 11 states have thus far pursued bans on them.

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Apr 30, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — A Nobel Prize-winning researcher who contributed to mRNA technology has said the gene therapy platform is being explored for “every imaginable infectious disease,” raising health concerns due to the dangers of mRNA shots.

Attorney Tom Renz recently warned that “all the childhood vaccines are going to be gene therapies” and that mRNA is now being integrated “into every vaccine out there,” although LifeSiteNews has not heard back from Renz after inquiring into his claim.

However, PennMedicine’s Dr. Drew Weissmann, who was jointly awarded with Dr. Katalin Karikó the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine for contributing to the modified mRNA technology of Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID “vaccines,” has said regarding this technology, “We’re working on every imaginable infectious disease.”

In addition, when presented with this prediction by Renz, Dr. Peter McCullough pointed LifeSiteNews to a pipeline of many mRNA so-called “vaccines” in development by Moderna. McCullough responded, “Yes, Moderna is one of many mRNA companies with an extensive portfolio of vaccines in development.”

The pharmaceutical company, which produced one of the most widely used mRNA COVID injections – and according to Open VAERS, the deadliest – is now working on a variety of mRNA “vaccines” for the flu, RSV, new variants of COVID, HIV, EBV, Lyme disease, Monkeypox, and many other viruses and diseases, including cancer.

PennMedicine has also listed a wide range of diseases for which mRNA injections are being studied or developed, including “all coronaviruses,” avian bird flu, malaria, genetic diseases, heart attacks, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

This is alarming considering the dangerous track record of mRNA injections. The U.S. federal government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which historically has recorded only a small fraction of vaccine injuries, has as of March 28 reported 38,541 deaths from the COVID shots, higher by far than those reported for any other vaccines since 1990. A total of 1,662,426 adverse events from the COVID shots have also been reported to VAERS.

The Pfizer and Moderna COVID shots, which accounted for most injections, are distinguished from traditional vaccines by their mRNA technology, which did not come to market before the COVID outbreak largely due to safety concerns. In fact, as of May 2020, only one of Moderna’s mRNA candidates had passed Phase 1 trials, and StatNews had noted in 2016 that mRNA-based treatments are “highly risky,” and that “(b)ig pharma companies had tried similar work and abandoned it because it’s exceedingly hard to get RNA into cells without triggering nasty side effects.”

“Novartis abandoned the related realm of RNA interference over concerns about toxicity, as did Merck and Roche,” StatNews continued.

The dangers of mRNA shots are so well documented that 11 states have thus far pursued bans on them.

The mRNA COVID shots are theoretically supposed to work by injecting genetic mRNA material in the body that instructs cells to produce an antigen that in turn triggers an immune response. In the case of the COVID shots, this antigen is a spike protein, to which many doctors and researchers are attributing toxic effects of the mRNA shots.

Doctors, including surgeon and cancer drug inventor Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, have explained that these spike proteins are inflammatory and attach to blood vessels with ACE-2 receptors found all throughout the body.

The toxic effects of spike proteins appear to be confirmed by Yale University scientists, who in February published a study linking post-COVID shot illness (“post-vaccination syndrome”) to distinct biomarkers, including elevated levels of circulating spike protein.

One of the concerns regarding mRNA technology is that it appears to produce inflammatory, symptom-inducing antigens indefinitely, at least in the case of the COVID shots. A practicing physician and Substack writer known as The Midwestern Doctor has pointed out that numerous studies show that after a COVID shot, spike protein production in the blood peaks, “and then declines but never reaches zero and appears to continue for months afterward.”

Despite the dangers of mRNA “vaccines,” they are being pushed by some of the most influential men in America, like Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, who has suggested AI could be used to rapidly develop new mRNA-based vaccines personalized for individual patients.

WHO Finalizes Pandemic Treaty

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:32:10 +0000

WHO Finalizes Pandemic Treaty

AE [slightly adapted and reformatted] | Apr 23, 2025

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been scheming to finalize the Pandemic Treaty to ensure global cohesion during the next pandemic. Over 190 member nations have agreed to surrender sovereignty in the name of public health, permitting an unelected organization of individuals to detail how they will respond to the next round of government imposed biological warfare.

WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is not a medical doctor but a Klaus Schwab appointee, declared this as a global victory. Interestingly, Schwab resigned as soon as the treaty was finalized. “The nations of the world made history in Geneva today,” Tedros declared. “In reaching consensus on the Pandemic Agreement, not only did they put in place a generational accord to make the world safer, they have also demonstrated that multilateralism is alive and well, and that in our divided world, nations can still work together to find common ground, and a shared response to shared threats.

Schwab and Tedros WHO

The One Health approach defines this treaty, which vaguely recognizes that all life on this planet is connected and therefore, under their rationale, requires a unified approach to problems. The WHO cooperates with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) to form the “Quadripartite” partnership that aims to promote the One Health agenda. The One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP), controlled by the WHO, provides “the science” to guide all mandates.

This treaty provides a group of unelected officials with immense power. There are new financial terms outlined under the new treaty. Manufacturers producing pandemic-related products now must allocate 10% of production to the WHO at no cost, and they must deduce costs by 10% for the WHO as well. Members already pay annual fees to the WHO, but they will now be required to pool funding into a centralized financial mechanism (CFM).

Governments and international organizations will be expected to pay into the CFM. Developed nations will be forced to pay for others as each member has “common but differentiated responsibilities” based on GDP. However, there are discussions that private entities may also be forced to pay to ensure financial preparedness. The funds will be allocated at the direction of the unelected officials at the Quadripartite.

The WHO ensured that there was no transparency during COVID-19. The organization continually protected China at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, despite the United States being the top donor to the organization. The White House has finally dispelled the COVID narrative perpetuated by “the science” and unelected organizations. They can and will do this again.

As noted by the White House:

Social Distancing: The “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation — which shut down schools and small business across the country — was arbitrary and not based on science. During closed door testimony, Dr. Fauci testified that the guidance “sort of just appeared.”

Mask Mandates: There was no conclusive evidence that masks effectively protected Americans from COVID-19. Public health officials flipped-flopped on the efficacy of masks without providing Americans scientific data — causing a massive uptick in public distrust.

Lockdowns: Prolonged lockdowns caused immeasurable harm to not only the American economy, but also to the mental and physical health of Americans, with a particularly negative effect on younger citizens. Rather than prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable populations, federal and state government policies forced millions of Americans to forgo crucial elements of a healthy and financially sound life.

The World Health Organization: The WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was an abject failure because it caved to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and placed China’s political interests ahead of its international duties. Further, the WHO’s newest effort to solve the problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — via a “Pandemic Treaty” — may harm the United States.

COVID-19 Misinformation: Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions.

When those efforts failed, the Biden Administration resorted to “outright censorship—coercing and colluding with the world’s largest social media companies to censor all COVID-19-related dissent.”

Rumble Video of RFK Jr. discussing Event 201

Not a single person has been held responsible for one of the worst humanitarian crises in history. The now former chair of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, repeatedly stated that the pandemic would provide an opportunity for a Great Reset where one global entity will reign supreme. The WEF partnered with Bill Gates to co-host EVENT 201—a mock trial for the COVID-19 pandemic, one year before it began. The world is a stage, and we are the puppets that they control. The WHO was not directly involved in Event 201; however, Bill Gates is now the WHO’s primary donor, following the US’s departure.

The WHO requires a 12-month waiting period before a country can formally be removed from the alliance under the WHO Constitution. Donald Trump withdrew on January 20, 2025, with WHO membership officially ending on January 23, 2026. The disease cycle has honed in on 2026 as a major event. I am not saying that Disease X, the next pandemic outlined by the WHO, will occur before that timeframe, but the correlations are undeniable.

Sally Fallon Morell: The Oiling of America

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:04:18 +0000

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of extended withdrawal

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:07:03 +0000

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of extended withdrawal

President Donald Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Starts and Stripes/Associated Press | January 27, 2025

NEW YORK — U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and “await further guidance.”

Experts said the sudden stoppage was a surprise and would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox in Africa, as well as brewing global threats. It also comes as health authorities around the world are monitoring bird flu outbreaks among U.S. livestock.

The Associated Press viewed a copy of Nkengasong’s memo, which said the stop-work policy applied to “all CDC staff engaging with WHO through technical working groups, coordinating centers, advisory boards, cooperative agreements or other means — in person or virtual.” It also says CDC staff are not allowed to visit WHO offices.

President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect. Leaving WHO requires the approval of Congress and that the U.S. meets its financial obligations for the current fiscal year. The U.S. also must provide a one-year notice.

His administration also told federal health agencies to stop most communications with the public through at least the end of the month.

“Stopping communications and meetings with WHO is a big problem,” said Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, a University of Southern California public health expert who collaborates with WHO on work against sexually transmitted infections.

“People thought there would be a slow withdrawal. This has really caught everyone with their pants down,” said Klausner, who said he learned of it from someone at CDC.

“Talking to WHO is a two-way street,” he added, noting that the two agencies benefit from each other’s expertise. The collaboration allows the U.S. to learn about new tests, new treatments and emerging outbreaks — information “which can help us protect Americans abroad and at home,” Klausner said.

The CDC details nearly 30 people to WHO and sends many millions of dollars to it through cooperative agreements. The U.S. agency also has some of the world’s leading experts in infectious diseases and public health threats, and the two agencies’ staffers are in daily contact about health dangers and how to stop them.

The collaboration halt isn’t the only global health effect of Trump’s executive orders. Last week, the president froze spending on another critical program, PEPFAR or the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

The anti-HIV program is credited with saving 25 million lives, including those of 5.5 million children, since it was started by Republican President George W. Bush. It was included in a Trump administration freeze on foreign aid spending slated to last at least three months.

PEPFAR provides HIV medication to more than 20 million people “and stopping its funding essential stops their HIV treatment,” International AIDS Society President Beatriz Grinsztejn said in a statement. “If that happens, people are going to die and HIV will resurge.”

A U.S. health official confirmed that the CDC was stopping its work with WHO. The person was not authorized to talk about the memo and spoke on condition of anonymity.

A WHO spokesperson referred questions about the withdrawal to U.S. officials.

Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services didn’t immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. And CDC officials didn’t respond to the AP’s request to speak with Nkengasong about the memo.

Former RFK Jr. running mate warns about mRNA shots, ‘extinction level event’ with AI

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:03:26 +0000

Former RFK Jr. running mate warns about mRNA shots, ‘extinction level event’ with AI
Nicole Shanahan told Megyn Kelly that '(w)hat we need for the mRNA platform right now is a moratorium. It's not ready for human use.'

Nicole Shanahan
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Jan 24, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks from the original article included]) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s former running mate joined in the chorus of voices expressing grave concerns with personalized mRNA shots to combat cancer after the untested treatment was promoted by tech billionaire Larry Ellison at the White House this week.

“What we need for the mRNA platform right now is a moratorium. It’s not ready for human use,” Nicole Shanahan told Megyn Kelly on her podcast this week.

Shanahan and Kelly were discussing remarks made by Ellison, the chief technology officer at software giant Oracle. He was at the White House touting a controversial new project backed by the Trump administration called Project Stargate. The initiative will invest a reported $500 billion into technology and artificial intelligence.

With Trump standing to his side, Ellison had commented that “you can do early cancer detection with a blood test, and using AI to look at the blood test, you can find the cancers that are actually seriously threatening the person. You can make that vaccine, that mRNA vaccine, you can make that robotically, again using AI, in about 48 hours.”

Ellison’s remarks were nearly universally criticized on social media. Several observers, including generally pro-Trump voices, expressed alarm at the proposal, finding it reminiscent of the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed initiative. Two of the three COVID shots authorized for use in the U.S. under Warp Speed were also mRNA-based.

Dr. Robert Malone, who pioneered mRNA technology decades ago, issued a warning about Ellison’s proposal, stating that he has “no understanding of cancer immunology.”

Shanahan further explained to Kelly, who herself was injured by the COVID shot, that “AI is a computer system. Human health is not.” She then stated that mRNA shots deliver “an inconsistent result in individuals,” pointing to the various reactions people have had to the COVID jab.

To Shanahan’s point, coroners and funeral directors have admitted that there has been an unusual uptick in blood clots found in deceased persons in recent years, with some of them saying that the COVID shot is possibly at fault. What’s more, so-called “turbo cancers” have emerged as well, with Dr. Peter McCullough arguing that they may be the result of the jab.

Without specifying what she was referring to, Shanahan further warned that certain ideas raised at the White House press conference could result in societal collapse.

“There’s so many that could have been shared in yesterday’s conference that are really excellent uses of AI,” she said. “I heard a few that were kind of out there and if deployed too quickly could lead to an extinction event.”

That comment caused Kelly to exclaim, “whoa!”

Shanahan’s cryptic remarks are not the first time she has raised the specter of technology harming human beings. During a talk she gave at a Turning Point USA event in December, Shanahan suggested that corporate and governmental forces are using wireless technologies for nefarious ends.

“People called me a conspiracy theorist for pointing out that the electric field we inhabit on Earth is being polluted through the use of unmitigated wireless products,” she said. “Well, here’s the truth – this is a real truth, and I’m from Silicon Valley, so I’m filling you in on a secret – these technologies can be made safe, but Big Tech is in bed with Big Pharma.”

Implying that human beings are unknowingly being poisoned, Shanahan then said that “we are an electrochemical species, and we are indeed short-circuiting at a cellular level — young people falling over on stage, which we are seeing time and time again on social media, video after video, of a newscaster or a young person literally speaking on stage and falling over.”

“This is not normal,” she stated. “There’s something biological happening … we are being polluted both electrically and chemically on a daily basis.”

Worry has set in among some medical freedom activists regarding Trump’s second term and not simply because of Ellison’s remarks Wednesday. Tech oligarch Bill Gates said that during his recent meeting with Trump, the president-elect was “pretty excited” about the idea of fast-tracking a “vaccine” for HIV, akin to the way COVID shot was accelerated during Operation Warp Speed.

At the same time, many are hopeful that with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services he will ensure that dangerous and untested medical treatments will not be approved for human use.

HHS invests nearly $600 million in Moderna’s bird flu vaccine development

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:14:23 +0000

HHS invests nearly $600 million in Moderna’s bird flu vaccine development

Moderna began studying a "pandemic influenza vaccine" for H5 and H7 flu strains in 2023. Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto/AP

CNN | January 17, 2025

The US Department of Health and Human Services will award $590 million to Moderna to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu, the pharmaceutical company announced Friday.

In 2023, Moderna initiated a study on a “pandemic influenza vaccine” to protect against H5 and H7 avian influenza viruses. In July, the company received $176 million from HHS toward its vaccine efforts. Moderna plans to advance research on the mRNA vaccine into a phase 3 trial after receiving positive results in earlier phases, which it plans to present at a scientific conference in the near future.

“Avian flu variants have proven to be particularly unpredictable and dangerous to humans in the past. That is why this response has been a top priority for the Biden-Harris Administration and HHS,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement Friday. “Accelerating the development of new vaccines will allow us to stay ahead and ensure that Americans have the tools they need to stay safe.”

Avian influenza, or bird flu, is a broad term that refers to several types of influenza that normally infect birds. The H5N1 virus has raised concern among health officials because it has sickened dozens of people in the United States over the past several months; the first human death from a severe case of the virus was reported in Louisiana this month.

“The project will provide additional support for late-stage development and licensure of pre-pandemic mRNA-based vaccines. The agreement will also support the expansion of clinical studies for up to five additional subtypes of pandemic influenza,” Moderna said in a statement Friday.

The US does have vaccines against H5 viruses in its Strategic National Stockpile, but they are made with older technology.

Separately, the Biden administration announced this month that it would invest more than $300 million to help monitor bird flu and prepare for potential spread. That money would be put toward programs focused on hospital preparedness, increased testing and surveillance, and awareness around emerging pathogens.

Most of the recent H5N1 transmission has been among animals, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still considers the risk from bird flu to the general public to be low, with no evidence of human-to-human spread. But the Biden administration has emphasized the importance of continued collaboration among stakeholders to “protect human health, animal health, and food safety.”

Canadian government warns country to prepare for new virus far worse than COVID

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:12:38 +0000

Canadian government warns country to prepare for new virus far worse than COVID

Dailymail.Com [adapted] | 14 August 2024

The Canadian government has issued advice warning citizens to prepare for a hypothetical new virus that could lead to food and fuel disruptions.

The Centre for Occupational Health and Safety rolled out a second edition of their Flu and Infectious Disease Outbreaks Business Continuity Plan Handbook.

The guide provides information for employers on what to prepare for in the face of another pandemic.

In the new edition, released in June, they focus on a 'hypothetical virus', that they warn could trigger further disruption that Covid-19.

It states that 'based on trends from past pandemic flu, there may be a higher average number of illness and deaths in age groups different than what we typically see during annual flu seasons.'

The guide also warns employers must be ready for a scenario like an disease outbreak or a pandemic which forces people to stay home.

It says: 'If there is a pandemic, how many people will be off work? It is impossible to determine with certainty.

'Estimates vary because no one will know for sure how ill the new virus will make people, how fast it will spread, or how many people will not go to work, until it happens.'

A future pandemic 'will come in two or three waves about three to nine months separating each outbreak', it adds.

The hypothetical virus could also last in these cycles for as much as two years, the report warns.

It adds that people should brace for disruptions like reduced labor, supply chain issues and shifts in consumer demand.

Among those disruptions include telecommunications, banking, water, gasoline, medicine and food.

It comes after American Dr Anthony Fauci recommended that people start wearing masks again due to a rise in Covid cases.

The number of infections is increasing as part of another summer surge - even though hospitalizations and deaths from the virus remain at historic lows.

The 83-year-old told people with comorbidities and seniors 'you should be wearing a mask' in crowded places.

He also revealed he had contracted Covid about two weeks ago. It was his third Covid infection and he has been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times.

World Health Organization officials warn that if the virus continues to spread, it could lead to new mutations and severe infections that evade vaccine protection and therapeutics.

Deaths have been generally on the rise since May, but began declining the week ending July 20. They currently hover at around 500 per week, compared to more than 25,000 in the fall of 2020.

Dr Fauci's face mask guidelines have long been criticized as people claimed they did not work to prevent the spread of Covid.

Insect farm for livestock feed creation to open in Canadian city later this month

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:22:47 +0000

Insect farm for livestock feed creation to open in Canadian city later this month
On July 18, NRGene Canada, an agricultural technology firm, announced the June 30 opening of its North American Insect Centre in Saskatoon which will focus on using insect protein to create livestock feed out of black soldier flies.

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Jul 10, 2024
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — An insect farm seeking to create “sustainable” livestock feed is set to open in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan this month.

On July 18, NRGene Canada, an agricultural technology firm, announced the June 30 opening of its North American Insect Centre which will focus on using insect protein to create livestock feed out of black soldier flies.

“NRGene Canada, NRGene’s Canadian subsidiary, proudly announces the opening of the North American Insect Center (NAIC),” the company stated in a June 18th press release.

“This research center for collaborative innovation was established together with the Swiss technology group Bühler marking a significant milestone in the advancement of insect protein production in North America,” it continued.

According to a later press release, the insects are ideal for livestock feed since the flies can “convert food and agricultural waste into high-quality protein, oil, and fertilizer at a record speed.”

NRGene further asserts that the “larvae are a rich source of essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals.”

Dr. Masood Rizvi, General Manager of NRGene Canada, celebrated the move saying, “The establishment of the NAIC in Saskatchewan is a testament to our commitment to driving innovation in the insect protein industry.”

“This facility will position Saskatchewan as a global center for insect protein production,” he continued. “By leveraging our advanced research capabilities, we aim to support local and regional economies while setting a new standard for sustainable protein production.”

The company projects the market will reach USD 3.96 billion by 2033, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 31% from now until 2033.

The Saskatoon farm is only the latest insect farm to begin production.

Both crickets and mealworms in recent years have been promoted by global elites as a source of protein that they say could replace beef or pork, and which can also be used in a variety of foods.

While the forthcoming farm in Saskatoon is focused on livestock feed, globalist groups like Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum and its Great Reset plan have long promoted eating bugs to replace beef, pork, and other meats that they say have high “carbon” footprints.

The Trudeau government has implemented many policies that align with the WEF’s so-called “climate change” agenda, including a punishing carbon tax and restrictions on the nation’s oil and gas industries.

As LifeSiteNews previously reported, since 2018, a total of $420,023 has been spent on helping multiple food companies that make human bug food.

Some of the cricket food-making companies include NAAK Inc., a Montreal-based business that has gotten a staggering $171,695 from the government in the last five years.

Another company, Casa Bonita Foods, is planning on making “high protein snacks made with cricket flour.”

The promotion of eating bug protein has the support of Canada’s federal government under Trudeau.

His government has contributed $8.5 million to a London, Ontario cricket farm run by the Aspire Food Group.

The cricket farm can make 13 million kilograms of crickets for “human and pet consumption.”

At the same time, the Trudeau government has begun to attack Canadian farmers by pushing forth an agenda that would force them to reduce the amount of nitrogen-based fertilizer. This could have a large negative impact on the growing of feed for cattle as well as food for human consumption.

The US will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA pandemic flu vaccine

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:46:45 +0000

The US will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA pandemic flu vaccine

FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. On Tuesday, July 2, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to pay Moderna $176 million to develop a mRNA vaccine to treat bird flu in people, as cases in dairy cows continue to mount across the country. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

ASSOCIATED PRESS | July 2, 2024

The U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to accelerate development of a pandemic influenza vaccine that could be used to treat bird flu in people, as concern grows about cases in dairy cows across the country, federal officials announced Tuesday.

Moderna already has a bird flu vaccine in very early-stage testing that uses the same mRNA technology that allowed rapid development and rollout of vaccines to protect against COVID-19. The new funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services include continued development of the vaccine, including a late-stage trial next year if those early study results are positive.

But the project can be quicky redirected to target another form of influenza if a different threat than the H5N1 form of bird flu emerges, HHS officials stressed.

The award was made through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, a program that focuses on medical treatments for potential pandemics.

The H5N1 virus was detected earlier this year in dairy cows and has spread to more than 135 herds in 12 states and infected three people to date, all with mild cases. Federal health officials stress that the risk to the wider population remains low.

Finland To Start Bird Flu Vaccinations For Humans

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:07:33 +0000

Finland To Start Bird Flu Vaccinations For Humans

JUN 28, 2024
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,

Finland plans to offer avian influenza vaccinations as soon as the week of June 30 to some workers with exposure to animals, health authorities said on June 25. That would make it the first country in the world to do so.

The Nordic country has bought vaccines for 10,000 people, each consisting of two injections, as part of a joint European procurement of up to 40 million doses for 15 nations from manufacturer CSL Seqirus.

“The vaccine will be offered to those aged 18 or over who are at increased risk of contracting avian influenza due to their work or other circumstances,” the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare said in a statement.

The H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, has circulated for decades in birds but has recently jumped to other species, including cattle in the United States.

Three humans in the United States have had confirmed infections this year, while Finland has none.

However, Finnish authorities are rolling out the vaccine to try to curb the transmission of the virus.

“The conditions in Finland are very different in that we have fur farms where the animals can end up in contact with wildlife,” Dr. Hanna Nohynek, chief physician at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, said.

The mostly open-air fur farms saw widespread outbreaks of bird flu among mink and foxes, leading to the culling of about 485,000 animals in 2023 to cut down on transmission risk.

Vaccinations are likely to start as early as next week, according to a spokesperson for the institute. People deemed at risk, including workers at the fur farms and lab technicians who handle bird flu samples, are eligible for the shots.

If any human infections are confirmed, people in close contact with the patients would also be offered the vaccine.

US Orders Vaccines

The U.S. government has ordered nearly 5 million doses of the influenza vaccine made by CSL, and manufacturing is slated to be completed by the end of the summer.

However, the U.S. government has no concrete plans yet to start vaccinating farm workers or others.

Dawn O’Connell, the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the U.S. Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), said in May that government officials were “looking closely” at moving forward with vaccinations. Still, the government has made no formal announcements on the front since then.

Robert Johnson, director of ASPR’s medical countermeasures program, was asked during a call with reporters on June 25 about Finland’s choice to start vaccinating some people. He said that ASPR and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in agreement that H5N1 is currently a low public health risk.

“Further sort of deliberations or decisions around vaccine really will require further conversations around the U.S. government,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a CDC official, told reporters.

In a strategy document released on June 25 aimed at a pandemic caused by influenza, U.S. officials said that vaccines “could be deployed before an outbreak begins and provide immune responses to a broad range of influenza viruses [and] could enable the population to have some level of protection against H5Nx viruses prior to a pandemic.”

Officials are backing the testing of multiple experimental vaccines against influenza, including two self-amplifying RNA vaccines targeting H5N1.

Pfizer and Moderna are also in talks with U.S. officials about messenger RNA vaccines against H5N1, after developing two widely used COVID-19 vaccines.

Although three farm workers in the United States have tested positive for H5N1 recently, officials have stressed that the illnesses are believed to have come from cows and that there are no signs as of yet of person-to-person transmission.

Reuters contributed to this report.

WHO warns a NEW strain of bird flu as man in Mexico tests positive before dying from it

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:06:14 +0000

World Health Organization warns a NEW strain of bird flu has jumped to humans with 'potential for high public health impact' - as man in Mexico, 59, tests positive before dying from it

READ MORE: FDA chief says agency is preparing for potential bird flu pandemic

Daily Mail | 5 June 2024

A new strain of bird flu has jumped to humans in an event that has 'potential for high public health impact', the World Health Organization has warned.

Officials say a 59-year-old man in Mexico died after battling a seven-day illness in which he suffered fever, shortness of breath, diarrhea and nausea.

Tests showed the man, who suffered multiple underlying conditions, was infected with a strain of bird flu called H5N2, marking the first time this type has ever been detected in humans.

Officials said any case of new bird flu strains spilling into humans risked an outbreak, but that in this case the risk was 'low' as there was no evidence of onward transmission.

The strain differs from the H5N1 bird flu that is currently tearing through dairy herds in the US and has already sickened three dairy farm workers.

The 59-year-old man from Mexico died after contracting the bird flu strain H5N2, the first time this has been detected in humans (stock image)

It differs from the H5N1 strain currently behind the outbreak among cattle in the US, with 82 herds having tested positive for the virus

The patient, from Mexico City, became unwell on April 17, but initially tried to treat his symptoms at home.

A week later, however, and after symptoms worsened, the patient went to hospital — but died later that same day from 'complications of his condition'.

PCR tests carried out on April 24 revealed he had been infected with a flu virus, and later it was confirmed that the patient had H5N2.

He was also reported to have been bedridden for three weeks before contracting the infection.

It was not clear where the patient caught the virus or whether they had spread it to others. He had no connection to farmland or poultry — which has been the case for the three patients infected with the original strain.

Officials said 17 people at the Mexico City hospital where he was treated and twelve neighbors — including seven who had signs of illness — all tested negative for the virus.

Blood tests are now being carried out to screen for antibodies against H5N2, which would indicate a previous infection.

Officials also noted that several flocks in the area had recently tested positive for H5N2, although it was not clear whether these were linked to the patient.

Dr William 'Bill' Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, said the case was concerning but that it was likely that increasing cases are being detected due to a rise in the number of tests.

'We are looking very hard for bird flu infections, as a consequence of H5N1, around the world,' he told DailyMail.com.

'We are also looking now in a much more sophisticated fashion than we were able to do even five to ten years ago.

'So, I think we will begin to find the odd infection that we hadn't anticipated but that probably was happening in the past but going unrecorded.'

He added that he was 'surprised' the infection had been detected in someone with no contact with poultry, suggesting the individual may have caught the disease from a close contact — although this will need to be confirmed with tests.

H5N2 was first detected in poultry in the 1990s, and has also been detected in other animals including pigs — which are known for infecting humans with their diseases.

This strain is not the type responsible for current widespread outbreaks across the animal population of the US.

It is H5N1, which has been detected in everything from foxes to raccoons, skunks, cows, seals and deer.

Last week, experts raised concerns after a third American tested positive for H5N1, and was found to have novel symptoms including a cough.

This means the virus may be able to spread easily to others via infected particles in the air.

In the other two H5N1 cases, the symptoms mostly affected the patients' eyes — including watery discharge and bleeding.

A total of 82 dairy herds have now tested positive for bird flu, with Idaho reporting the highest number.

24 Republican governors tell Biden they will resist ‘unconstitutional’ WHO pandemic treaty

Sat, 25 May 2024 11:00:04 +0000

24 Republican governors tell Biden they will resist ‘unconstitutional’ WHO pandemic treaty
Republican governors in nearly half the states condemned the WHO’s pandemic treaty and International Health Regulations in a letter to Joe Biden, warning that they violate ‘our Constitution’s core principles’ and threaten America’s ‘national sovereignty.’

May 24, 2024
(LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included]) — Almost half the governors in the U.S., all of them Republicans, have signed a letter to President Joe Biden declaring that they will resist any efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO) to control public policy in America through its proposed “Pandemic Agreement” and amended International Health Regulations (IHRs).

The 24 governors declared their united opposition to the pending treaty and IHRs because the agreements “would undermine national sovereignty, infringe upon states’ rights, and jeopardize constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.” The Biden administration reportedly plans to bypass the legal requirement that the U.S. Senate agree to a treaty with a two-thirds vote.

The GOP state leaders said that the aim of these agreements is to allow the WHO to “restrict the rights of U.S. citizens, including freedoms such as speech, privacy, travel, choice of medical care, and informed consent, thus violating our Constitution’s core principles.”

The governors asserted that the agreements would “seek to elevate the WHO” from a merely advisory – if already massively influential – body, “to a global authority in public health” able to “compe[l] citizens to comply with WHO directives,” potentially including medical intervention mandates. They noted that the WHO would furthermore be able to unilaterally “declare a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ (PHEIC) in member nations, extending beyond pandemics to include a range of perceived emergencies.”

READ: Rep. Chris Smith warns WHO pandemic treaty is the greatest threat to freedom in human history

Echoing the concerns of other public figures around the world, they stressed that this would altogether undermine the sovereignty of WHO member nations. Other dangers of the agreements include “global surveillance infrastructure and requirements for member states to censor speech related to public health,” according to the governors.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, and the others noted that the pandemic treaty and the IHRs would give the WHO “unprecedented and unconstitutional powers over the United States and its people” and “could drastically change the role of governors in response to their charge as the state health officials.”

“As governors, we affirm that public health policy is a matter reserved for the states, not the federal government, and certainly not international bodies like the WHO. We are committed to resisting any attempts to transfer authority to the WHO over public policy affecting our citizens or any efforts by the WHO to assert such authority over them,” the governors concluded.

A growing number of public figures as well as U.S. states and elected officials have raised the alarm about the so-called Pandemic Agreement in recent months.

Earlier this month, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin rallied every Republican in the U.S. Senate to sign an open letter imploring the Biden administration to reject the pending agreements being considered at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in late May.

READ: All 49 GOP senators call on Biden admin to withdraw support for WHO pandemic treaty

On Thursday, April 18, a group of GOP lawmakers and conservative activists similarly warned about the agreement at a press conference on Capitol Hill organized by the Sovereignty Coalition.

“The treaty would put us under the thumb of the UN and communist China and the WHO for whatever they wanted to declare a crisis, whether it’s poverty crisis, or a gun violence crisis or a climate crisis, or a health crisis, and make us listen to the WHO. That is not constitutional,” Rep. Bob Good of Virginia declared.

This year’s meeting of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the WHO, will be held from May 27 to June 1 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The governors who signed the letter to Biden include: Governor Kay Ivey (AL), Governor Mike Dunleavy (AK), Governor Sarah Sanders (AR), Governor Ron DeSantis (FL), Governor Brian Kemp (GA), Governor Brad Little (ID), Governor Eric Holcomb (IN), Governor Kim Reynolds (IA), Governor Jeff Landry (LA), Governor Tate Reeves (MS), Governor Greg Gianforte (MT), Governor Jim Pillen (NE), Governor Joe Lombardo (NV), Governor Chris Sununu (NH), Governor Doug Burgum (ND), Governor Kevin Stitt (OK), Governor Henry McMaster (SC), Governor Kristi Noem (SD), Governor Bill Lee (TN), Governor Greg Abbott (TX), Governor Spencer Cox (UT), Governor Glenn Youngkin (VA), Governor Jim Justice (WV), and Governor Mark Gordon (WY).