21:56 05.30.2020(updated 22:06 30.05.2020) Short url
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A new virus that will be “100 times worse” when it arrives has been predicted by an American scientist who points to zoonoses that will bring new pandemics to humanity, while emphasizing chickens as the main culprit of the new virus.
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American scientist Michael Greger highlights the fact that zoonoses, the diseases whose agents are naturally transmitted from animals to humans, are the keys to all woes in terms of viruses and that the coronavirus is not the last on such a scale that will strike humanity. In his latest book “How to Survive a Pandemic”, the doctor explains that a new apocalyptic virus will soon knock on the door of humanity if nothing changes.
According to him, this apocalyptic virus will be “100 times worse” when it arrives. Michael Greger announced that the new carrier of the H5N1 virus is a hen whose meat is widely consumed. The human body is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the virus due to non-sterile manufacturing conditions and the chemicals that make poultry grow.
“With pandemics that explosively spread a virus from human to human, there is never any question of whether, but when,” he wrote.
The scientist also recalled that the carriers of Covid-19 were bats, while this virus was transferred to humans through the meat of pangolins, which is considered a specialty in Asian countries.
“A new incubator for the virus”
According to infectious disease specialist Michael Osterholm, the H5N1 virus resembles its “cousin the 1918 virus” and could lead to the repetition of the Spanish flu epidemic of the last century. He said that “all chickens born are a new incubator for the virus”.
The scientist said that in 1997 there was a new strain of flu known as H5N1. The first infected person is said to have been a three-year-old boy from Hong Kong, who suffered from throat and abdominal pain, and died of acute respiratory failure. Fortunately, the spread was contained and only 18 people were infected, three of whom died.
The author of the book pointed out that it was important to start raising hens not in huge factories, but on small farms and with fewer birds in more hygienic conditions, to avoid a new epidemic.
As a reminder, tuberculosis and measles come from sheep and goats, smallpox from camels, whooping cough from pigs, typhoid fever from chickens and the cold virus from cattle and horses.
These zoonoses are transmitted to humans through the meat of an infected animal. These viruses, for the most part, are not dangerous today, but can mutate and begin to weaken the human immune system, which can lead to death.
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