(End of the American Dream)—If we are seeing this much fear now, how bad will it be if H5N1 starts spreading from human to human on a widespread basis?  Since the bird flu pandemic began in early 2022, over 148 million birds have been ordered to be euthanized in the United States alone.  But killing all those birds didn’t stop the disease.

Today, the bird flu pandemic is worse than ever.  In recent months, H5N1 has really been spreading among our cattle herds, and the Los Angeles Times has reported on the “piles of dead cattle” in California.  Needless to say, that is very bad news for our food supply.  On top of everything else, now cats are being put down after getting infected.  According to Reuters, two house cats in the state of Oregon were just killed “after testing positive for bird flu”…

Two house cats in Oregon were euthanized after testing positive for bird flu linked to their consumption of pet food made from raw chicken, state agriculture officials said on Friday.

The virus has infected millions of poultry since the nation’s worst-ever outbreak began in 2022, along with thousands of dairy cattle and almost 70 people since April. The CDC has said the risk to the general public is low.

Both cats that tested positive ate the same brand of pet food, Wild Coast Raw, before becoming ill, Oregon’s agriculture department said. Testing confirmed the presence of bird flu in the cats and food samples, according to the department.

These cats could have potentially recovered.

Apparently a decision was made to euthanize them in order to help prevent the spread of the disease.

But if H5N1 mutates into a form that can spread easily among humans, there isn’t going to be much that we can do about it.

Earlier today, we learned that a woman in the state of Wyoming that has tested positive has had to be hospitalized…

A woman in Wyoming was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu, according to health officials who say she was likely infected by handling sickened birds in a backyard flock.

According to a statement from Wyoming’s public health department, the woman is “an older adult” and has “other health conditions,” which may have made her more susceptible to the disease. She is being treated in another state.

This marks the first human case of bird flu in Wyoming and the 70th human case in the United States since 2024.

I don’t see any reason to panic at this stage. But once health authorities start telling us that person to person contact can spread H5N1, panic will spread like wildfire.

Meanwhile, chickens and turkeys continue to drop dead at a staggering rate, and it is being reported that some egg farmers feel “that the fight against the avian flu is unwinnable”…

Egg farmers are starting to worry that the fight against the avian flu is unwinnable.

Producers across the country are bleeding millions of dollars to invest in biosecurity efforts to rebuild their rapidly dying flocks — all while protecting humans from catching the deadly disease, according to a report.

“I call this virus a terrorist. And we are in a battle and losing, at the moment,” Greg Herbruck, the CEO of Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch in Michigan, told the San Antonio Express-News.

Earlier this month, I wrote about the new strain of H5N1 that is just ripping through flocks from coast to coast.

As a result, some major retailers are now rationing eggs, and the price of a dozen eggs has soared into the stratosphere…

While Americans have gotten used to sticker shock over the past couple of years under President Biden as prices for food, gas and other everyday items surged, many shoppers had to look twice when they bought a couple of eggs lately.

The average price for a dozen Grade A large eggs climbed to $4.95 last month according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from just $2.52 twelve months earlier.

According to the latest CPI report, overall egg prices rose by more than 50 percent over the past year.

Needless to say, this is not the only health scare that we are facing right now.

An outbreak of Ebola is causing a great deal of alarm in central Africa, and on Sunday some media sources were reporting that there were two potential cases of Ebola in New York City…

Two suspected Ebola patients were transported from a New York City urgent care facility to a hospital for treatment after they exhibited symptoms of the deadly and incurable disease.

The patients were transported from a City MD on East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue around 11:16 a.m. ET on Sunday, the New York City Fire Department told DailyMail.com.

Images showed first responders wearing face coverings and gloves as they moved the patients into ambulances on the rainy Upper East Side street.

Thankfully, it appears that this may have been a false alarm.

At this point, authorities are telling us that the two patients probably just have the flu. Hopefully that is true.

Switching gears, I wanted to mention the magnitude 5.0 earthquake that just hit the state of Texas…

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded in West Texas late Friday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and could be felt by residents more than 150 miles away in El Paso.

The earthquake struck near the border of Culberson and Reeves counties at 11:23 p.m. CST with an epicenter about 33 miles northwest of Toyah, Texas. Three smaller aftershocks also occurred within minutes of the first quake. There have been no immediate reported deaths or injuries associated with the quakes. And economic losses are expected to be minimal.

It is being reported that this was the sixth most powerful earthquake in the entire recorded history of the state…

Friday’s earthquake is tied for the sixth strongest in Texas history, according to the website Earthquake Track. Texas has also experienced two magnitude 5.1 earthquakes in the past six months, both tying for the fifth strongest in state history.

On the west coast, yet another very alarming earthquake swarm hit southern California on Saturday…

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.5, the third above 3.0 in Southern California in the last several hours, struck the Inland Empire on Saturday afternoon.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake struck at 2:16 p.m. with an epicenter 11 miles south of Idyllwild, near Hemet.

The quake marked the third in the region on Saturday, after two hit the Malibu area in the early hours of Saturday. A 3.8 magnitude was recorded just before midnight while a 3.5 rattled the area at about 6:30 a.m.

We have seen several earthquake swarms strike the state of California so far this year, and this has prompted Newsweek to publish an article entitled “Could California Face ‘Big One’ Earthquake Soon?”…

Seismologists are closely monitoring California’s fault lines as concerns grow about the possibility that the “Big One” could happen soon.

The “Big One” refers to a massive earthquake that could occur along the San Andreas Fault, one of the state’s most significant and active fault lines. Scientists predict that this earthquake could reach a magnitude of 7.8 or higher, causing widespread destruction across Southern California or the San Francisco Bay Area depending on the rupture location.

To answer Newsweek’s question, the answer is yes.

California could definitely be hit by the “Big One” soon.

I have been warning people about this in my books and in my articles over and over again.

It is just a matter of time before an absolutely enormous earthquake permanently alters the geography of the California coastline.

When it finally happens, nobody will be able to say that they were not warned.

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(The Economic Collapse Blog)—We just received some very serious news.  The extremely deadly D1.1 strain of the H5N1 bird flu which has been ripping through the nation’s poultry population in recent weeks has now gotten into the cattle population in the state of Nevada.

This is the very first time that cattle in the U.S. have ever tested positive for this strain.  What this means is that we are facing a very serious threat to our food supply.  As I detailed earlier this week, the U.S. is dealing with the worst egg shortage that it has ever experienced, and it is likely to get even worse as this new strain spreads.

Meanwhile, the size of the U.S. cattle herd could be reduced even further by this new strain, and it is already at the lowest level that we have seen since 1961…

As of January, the total number of cattle and calves was 86.7 million, down by 1% from last year, reported Market Intel. The beef herd has shrunk 40% since 1975 to the smallest size since 1961.

Beef cows that have calved hit a record low at 27.9 million, revealed the U.S. Department of Agriculture, while replacement heifers also decreased, indicating continued contraction in the cattle cycle.

In 1961, 182 million people were living in the United States.

Today, 334 million people live in the United States.

So now we have the same amount of beef that we did in 1961, but we have nearly twice as many people to feed. A beef shortage is here.

Needless to say, the price of beef is going to go higher as supplies of beef just keep getting tighter and tighter.

I don’t know why the mainstream media is not making a bigger deal about this.  I know that they are absolutely fixated on the drama that is unfolding in Washington D.C. right now, but this new strain of the H5N1 bird flu is an extremely huge story…

Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer variant of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with severe infections in humans, according to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

Scientists say these infections with a different type of virus mark an inflection point in the nation’s efforts to contain the virus: It may be here to stay.

The strain is not the same one that has been circulating in other dairy herds throughout the United States, a virus called B3.13. The newer version, D1.1, has previously been detected only in birds and in people who had contact with infected birds.

This is the very first time that D1.1 has been detected in any of our dairy herds.

Up until just recently, the milder B3.13 strain of H5N1 was the dominant strain in birds all over the nation.

But over the past few months there has been a dramatic change.  The D1.1 strain has become dominant, and it has been ripping through bird populations from coast to coast…

That bird flu strain, called D1.1 by scientists, was also linked to a fatal human case in Louisiana last year after exposure to sick birds. The D1.1 strain has emerged in recent months to dominate infections in wild birds and poultry flocks across North America.

Since the pandemic began in early 2022, “around 957 dairy herds and more than 153 million poultry have been affected” by the bird flu…

According to the CDC, around 957 dairy herds and more than 153 million poultry have been affected by types of bird flu in the United States.

The devastation that this pandemic has caused has been immense, but nearly all of the carnage that we have witnessed so far has been caused by the relatively mild B3.13 strain.

Now the D1.1 strain is spreading like wildfire, and this has pushed egg prices to dizzying heights…

Egg prices continue to move higher due to limited inventory due to an avian flu outbreak.

The volume of trailer load loose egg sales decreased 16% at the end of January.

Prices for white large shell eggs hit $8.97 per dozen.

Delivered prices on the California-compliant wholesale loose egg market increased $0.37 to $8.72 per dozen in the last week of January, according to the Department of Agriculture.

Of course there are many supermarkets where the shelves are completely empty and there are no eggs to be purchased at any price.

Unsurprisingly, eggs have now become a target for thieves because they have become so valuable. In fact, someone just stole 100,000 eggs from a trailer in Pennsylvania, and police have still not been able to determine who did it…

The heist of 100,000 eggs from the back of a trailer in Pennsylvania has become a whodunit that police have yet to crack.

Four days after the theft that law enforcement say could be tied to the sky-high cost of eggs, no leads have come in, Trooper First Class Megan Frazer, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania State Police, said Wednesday.

There is something else that I would like for you to consider.

What is going to happen if the new D1.1 strain of the bird flu starts spreading widely among humans?

Already, it has killed a 65-year-old victim in Louisiana, and it almost killed a 13-year-old girl in Canada…

In November, an otherwise healthy 13-year-old girl from British Columbia, Canada, was infected with D1.1 bird flu from an unknown source.

She had not been exposed to any birds or cattle, and her only risk factor was obesity.

She went into respiratory failure and had to be placed on life support, though she eventually recovered.

And a 65-year-old patient in Louisiana died last month after being hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms from D1.1.

The B3.13 strain only caused mild illness in humans.

But the D1.1 strain is a killer.

One expert is warning that if this strain “were to mutate and gain the ability to efficiently spread from person to person”, we could be facing a new “global pandemic”…

Professor Bobbi Pritt of the Mayo Clinic issued similar warnings to the Daily Express US last month.

“If the virus were to mutate and gain the ability to efficiently spread from person to person, then this could result in a large outbreak or even a global pandemic,” she said.

I realize that this is not welcome news for many of you.

But the truth is that we were warned that pestilences would be one of the major themes of this period.

It has been less than a month since President Trump was inaugurated, and now it appears that he will have a major health scare to contend with.

My advice is to be prepared to deal with another unprecedented global health panic, because this crisis could spiral out of control at any time.

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