My latest opinion piece in the New York Post: Why the biggest threat of bird flu is government disinformation

A new strain of bird flu is spreading rapidly.

It began in Asia in 2020, arrived in Canada in 2021 and reached the US a year later, killing tens of millions of birds and tens of thousands of sea mammals.

So far, bird flu — whose human mortality rate is being touted as 50% — has only been transmitted from animals to people.

But with bird flu DNA detectable in 20% of all milk sold in the United States, if a mutation occurs, human-to-human transmission could be possible. 

Bird flu is hardly the only threat to world health right now.

Monkeypox is back, raging across the Democratic Republic of Congo featuring a strain far deadlier than the one that broke out in 2022. 

While health authorities may be alarmed about these viruses, Americans ought to be alarmed about our health authorities.

Because if public health officials treat these outbreaks like they did the last, the response to any new pandemic could be worse than the virus itself.

The problem begins with our authorities’ penchant for distorting risk.

During the 2009 swine flu pandemic, for instance, health officials predicted as many as 120 million people would die.

Governments stockpiled vaccines. But just as soon as the pandemic began, it ended.

Vaccines expired.

The death count was that of mild seasonal influenza.

By the time Covid struck a decade later, things had only gotten worse.

Media bombarded America with images of devastation.

The doomsy distortions had their desired effect: By March 2020, the University of Southern California Understanding Coronavirus in America tracking survey showed that average Americans believed the risk of death from COVID-19 was 25% – on par with the Ebola virus.

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