{"id":6018,"date":"2024-04-29T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T08:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2024-08-04T19:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T19:47:36","slug":"doctors-predict-epidemic-of-prion-brain-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/?p=6018","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Predict Epidemic of Prion Brain Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Analysis by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercola.com\/forms\/background.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Joseph Mercola<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Farticles.mercola.com%2Fsites%2Farticles%2Farchive%2F2024%2F04%2F29%2Fprion-brain-diseases.aspx%3Fui%3De9bc15645e33ce840f3a66be902fd766e7cc9162f9b5a99e98725540f42a943b%26sd%3D20210224%26cid_source%3Ddnl%26cid_medium%3Demail%26cid_content%3Dart1ReadMore%26cid%3D20240429_HL2%26foDate%3Dfalse%26mid%3DDM1560657%26rid%3D7926564\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Doctors%20Predict%20Epidemic%20of%20Prion%20Brain%20Diseases&amp;body=According%20to%20mounting%20data%2C%20one%20of%20the%20more%20serious%20side%20effects%20of%20the%20COVID%20mRNA%20jabs%20appears%20to%20be%20dementia.%20Even%20worse%2C%20this%20previously%20untransmissible%20disease%20may%20now%20be%20contagious%20-%20are%20we%20about%20to%20see%20an%20avalanche%20of%20neurological%20diseases%2C%20including%20Alzheimer%27s%3F%0A%0AACCESS%20NOW%3A%20https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2024\/04\/29\/prion-brain-diseases.aspx%3Fcid_medium=etaf%26cid_source=etaf%26cid=share%0A%0AABOUT%20DR.%20MERCOLA%3A%20Dr.%20Joseph%20Mercola%20is%20the%20founder%20of%20Mercola.com.%20An%20osteopathic%20physician%2C%20best-selling%20author%20and%20recipient%20of%20multiple%20awards%20in%20the%20field%20of%20natural%20health%2C%20his%20primary%20vision%20is%20to%20change%20the%20modern%20health%20paradigm%20by%20providing%20people%20with%20a%20valuable%20resource%20to%20help%20them%20take%20control%20of%20their%20health.%20His%20latest%20book%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Truth%20About%20COVID-19%E2%80%9D%20was%20an%20instant%20best-seller%20and%20the%20%231%20book%20sold%20on%20Amazon.%0A%0A\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2024\/04\/29\/prion-brain-diseases.aspx?ui=e9bc15645e33ce840f3a66be902fd766e7cc9162f9b5a99e98725540f42a943b&amp;sd=20210224&amp;cid_source=dnl&amp;cid_medium=email&amp;cid_content=art1ReadMore&amp;cid=20240429_HL2&amp;foDate=false&amp;mid=DM1560657&amp;rid=7926564#\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>April 29, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$bcr$btnPrev','')\">Previous<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$bcr$btnPrevFloat','')\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$bcr$btnPrevFloat','')\">Omega-3 \u2014 A Simple Way to Lower Your Risk of Disease<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$bcr$btnNextFloat','')\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$bcr$btnNextFloat','')\">The Ins and Outs of Organic Food Labeling<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mercola.com\/ImageServer\/Public\/2024\/April\/Nonlead\/prion-brain-diseases-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"prion brain diseases\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"expanderHead\">STORY AT-A-GLANCE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mounting research suggests a serious side effect of the COVID mRNA jabs could be dementia, and the prions that cause it may be contagious<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frameshifting, as we now know occurs in the COVID shots, can induce prion production and lead to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sid Belzberg&#8217;s prions.rip website, which collected data on neurological side effects post-jab, found a notably high incidence of diagnosed CJD cases, suggesting an alarming trend<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A series of articles highlight biases in clinical trials and observational studies, suggesting COVID-19 vaccines&#8217; safety and effectiveness have been massively overstated<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Global COVID Vaccine Safety Project study \u2014 funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u2014 reveals significant side effects, including myocarditis, pericarditis, and blood clots, underscoring the need for reevaluation of COVID vaccine risks and benefits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>According to mounting data, one of the more serious side effects of the COVID mRNA jabs appears to be dementia, and worse yet, this previously untransmissible disease may now be \u201ccontagious,\u201d transmissible by way of prions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/takecontrol.substack.com\/p\/stephanie-seneff-covid-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2021 interview with Stephanie Seneff<\/a>, Ph.D., she explained why she suspected the COVID shots may eventually result in an avalanche of neurological prion-based diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s. She also published a paper detailing those mechanisms in the May 10, 2021, issue of the International Journal of Vaccine Theory. As she explained in that paper:<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cA paper published by J. Bart Classen (2021) proposed that the spike protein in the mRNA vaccines could cause prion-like diseases, in part through its ability to bind to many known proteins and induce their misfolding into potential prions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Idrees and Kumar (2021) have proposed that the spike protein\u2019s S1 component is prone to act as a functional amyloid and form toxic aggregates &#8230; and can ultimately lead to neurodegeneration.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In summary, the take-home from Seneff\u2019s paper is that the COVID shots, offered to hundreds of millions of people, are instruction sets for your body to make a toxic protein that will eventually wind up concentrated in your spleen, from where prion-like protein instructions will be sent out, leading to neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Are Prions?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The term &#8220;prion&#8221; derives from &#8220;proteinaceous infectious particle.&#8221; Prions are known to cause a variety of neurodegenerative diseases in animals and humans, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or &#8220;mad cow disease&#8221;) in cattle, and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These diseases are collectively referred to as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). They\u2019re characterized by long incubation periods, brain damage, the formation of holes in the brain giving it a sponge-like appearance, and failure to induce an inflammatory response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infectious prions propagate by transmitting their misfolded protein state to normal variants of the same protein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, prions are infectious agents composed entirely of a protein material that can fold in multiple, structurally distinct ways, at least one of which is transmissible to other prion proteins, leading to a disease that is similar to viral infections but without nucleic acids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike bacteria, viruses, and fungi, which contain nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) that instruct their replication, prions propagate by transmitting their misfolded protein state to normal variants of the same protein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the prion disease model, the infectious properties of prions are due to the ability of the abnormal protein to convert the normal version of the protein into the misfolded form, thereby setting off a chain reaction that progressively damages the nervous system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prions are remarkably resistant to conventional methods of sterilization and can survive extreme conditions that would normally destroy nucleic acids or other pathogens, which is part of why prion diseases are so difficult to treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Evidence mRNA Shots Can Trigger Dementia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, there\u2019s even more evidence to support Seneff\u2019s theory. In August 2022, tech entrepreneur Sid Belzberg wrote<sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;about prions.rip, a website he\u2019d set up to collect data on the neurological side effects of the jabs. (This site is no longer live.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within a few months, the site had received about 15,000 hits and gathered 60 reports from people who got the jab and suffered neurological deficits shortly thereafter, including six cases of diagnosed CJD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cNormally this disease affects 1 in a 1,000,000 people,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Belzberg wrote.<sup>3<\/sup>&nbsp;<em>\u201cTo get 6 cases you would need 6,000,000 hits to the site assuming everyone reports. The chances of getting 1 case in 15,000 hits is 1 in 66. To see 6 cases in 1 group of 15,000 is 1\/66^6 or 1 in 82,000,000,000, or 20 times more likely to win a Powerball lottery! &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>To reiterate, CJD is an exceptionally rare disease that is now a known and established severe adverse reaction (SAE) from the DEATHVAX&#x2122;. Injecting this slow kill bioweapon can cause ailments that are about as likely to develop in the real word as getting struck by lightning twice. The proof is now irrefutable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mercola.com\/assets\/images\/mercola\/pdf\/pdf-download-desktop.png\" width=\"222\" height=\"118\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Save This Article for Later &#8211; Get the PDF Now<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/media.mercola.com\/ImageServer\/Public\/2024\/April\/PDF\/prion-brain-diseases-pdf.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frameshifting Can Result in Prion Production<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=eDxkyX1rF_0%3Fsi%3Dwz3AYPDjHr_RifM3%26wmode%3Dtransparent%26rel%3D0\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In mid-December 2023, researchers reported<sup>4,<\/sup><sup>5,<\/sup><sup>6<\/sup>&nbsp;that the replacing of uracil with synthetic methylpseudouridine in the COVID shots \u2014 a process known as codon optimization \u2014 can cause frameshifting, a glitch in the decoding, thereby triggering the production of off-target aberrant proteins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The antibodies that develop as a result may, in turn, trigger off-target immune reactions. According to the authors, off-target cellular immune responses occur in 25% to 30% of people who have received the COVID shot. But that\u2019s not all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to British neuroscientist Dr. Kevin McCairn, this frameshifting phenomenon has also been linked to harmful prion production \u2014 and that frame shifted prions, specifically, are infectious and can be transmitted from one person to another. As reported in the Journal of Theoretical Biology in 2013:<sup>7<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cA quantitatively consistent explanation for the titres of infectivity found in a variety of prion-containing preparations is provided on the basis that the etiological agents of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy comprise a very small population fraction of prion protein (PrP) variants, which contain frameshifted elements in their N-terminal octapeptide-repeat regions &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Frameshifting accounts quantitatively for the etiology of prion disease. One per million frameshifted prions may be enough to cause disease. The HIV TAR-like element in the PRNP mRNA is likely an effector of frameshifting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>McCairn explained this mechanism in a February 19, 2023, interview with Health Alliance Australia (video above). In it, he noted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cMis-folded proteins caused by prions can impact every level organ and tissue system in the body &#8230; [They] bioaccumulate and are resistant to degradation, thereby building up &#8230;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Prions may in fact be the primary molecule that is being \u201cshed\u201d by COVID jab recipients, and if those prions are due to frameshifting, that could be very bad news indeed, considering their implication in dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another doctor who believes we\u2019ll be facing an \u201cepidemic of prion disease\u201d is Dr. David Cartland. In late February 2024, he posted<sup>8<\/sup>&nbsp;13 scientific papers linking the COVID jabs, prion diseases and CJD, noting that was just a \u201csmall selection\u201d of what\u2019s available in the medical literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prions Implicated in Long COVID as Well<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to genomics expert Kevin McKernan, Ph.D., prions are also involved in long COVID (or as McKernan calls it, \u201clong vax\u201d).<sup>9<\/sup>&nbsp;In one 2024 study,<sup>10<\/sup>&nbsp;96.7% of long COVID sufferers had received the jab. In an interview with the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), McKernan stated:<sup>11<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cIf you frameshift over the stop codons, you\u2019re going to be making proteins that are spike-mito proteins. When I talk to a lot of the long vax patients I hear of all these things that remind me of my time in the mitochondrial disease sequencing space &#8230;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>McKernan claims he tried to publish a paper on this in 2021 with Dr. Peter McCullough, but the editor of the journal \u201cstepped in and torpedoed the paper.\u201d<sup>12<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">World\u2019s Largest Side Effect Analysis Has Been Published<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In related news, the largest study<sup>13<\/sup>&nbsp;to date on the side effects of the COVID jabs was published in the journal Vaccine in February 12, 2024, and it confirms what I and many other alternative news sources have been saying all along, namely that the mRNA jabs are the most dangerous medical products to ever hit the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study \u2014 performed by the Global COVID Vaccine Safety (GCoVS) Project and funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Ontario and the Canadian Health Research Institute \u2014 evaluated the risk of &#8220;adverse events of special interest&#8221; (AESI) following COVID-19 \u201cvaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data from 10 sites in eight countries (Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand and Scotland) were included, encompassing more than 99 million jabbed individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the thousands of side effects Pfizer listed in its confidential report of post-authorization adverse events submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,<sup>14<\/sup>&nbsp;the GCoVS focused on 13 AESIs that fall into three primary categories: Neurological, hematologic (blood-related) and cardiovascular conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They calculated the AESI risk for each of the 13 AESIs based on the number of observed versus expected (OE) incidents occurring up to 42 days after injection. The \u201cexpected\u201d number of side effects were based on vaccine adverse event data from 2015 to 2019. These rates were then compared to the adverse event rates observed in those who got one or more of the COVID jabs, either Pfizer&#8217;s BNT162b2, Moderna&#8217;s mRNA-1273, or AstraZeneca&#8217;s ChAdOx1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Largest Study to Date Confirms COVID Jab Dangers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The analysis<sup>15<\/sup>&nbsp;revealed several concerning side effects, including increased risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, blood clots in the brain, and various neurological conditions. Here\u2019s a quick summary of the findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022Myocarditis and pericarditis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u25e6Pfizer vaccine \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;OE ratios for myocarditis were 2.78 and 2.86 after the first and second shots, with the risk remaining doubled after the third and fourth shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u25e6Moderna vaccine \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;OE ratios for myocarditis were 3.48 and 6.10 after the first and second shots. Doses 1 and 4 also showed OE ratios of 1.74 and 2.64 for pericarditis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u25e6AstraZeneca vaccine \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;OE ratio for pericarditis was 6.91 after the third shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022Blood clots in the brain (cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, CVST):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25e6An OE of 3.23 for CVST was observed after the first AstraZeneca shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25e6A significant increase in CVST risk was also noted after the second Pfizer dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022Neurological conditions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u25e6Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;An OE ratio of 2.49 was observed following the AstraZeneca jab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u25e6Transverse myelitis \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;Risk nearly doubled with the AstraZeneca shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u25e6Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;OE ratios of 3.78 (Moderna) and 2.23 (AstraZeneca) were noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These findings really underscore the potential for serious side effects from the COVID shots, including conditions that may lead to other consequences in the longer term, such as stroke, heart attack, paralysis and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Effectiveness and Safety Was Wildly Exaggerated in Trials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering those findings, it\u2019s no surprise to find that effectiveness and safety were exaggerated in clinical trials and observational studies. In a guest post on Dr. Robert Malone\u2019s Substack, Raphael Lataster, Ph.D., writes:<sup>16<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cAn unofficial series of four crucially important medical journal articles, two by me, appearing in major academic publisher Wiley\u2019s Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice reveals that claims made about COVID-19 vaccines\u2019 effectiveness and safety were exaggerated in the clinical trials and observational studies, which significantly impacts risk-benefit analyses.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Also discussed are the concerning topics of myocarditis, with evidence indicating that this one adverse effect alone means that the risks outweigh the benefits in the young and healthy; and perceived negative effectiveness, which indicates that the vaccines increase the chance of COVID-19 infection\/hospitalization\/death, to say nothing about other adverse effects.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary of Papers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The four papers in question include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.\u201cSources of Bias in Observational Studies of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness\u201d published in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice in March 2023, co-authored by BMJ editor Peter Doshi, Ph.D., statistician Kaiser Fung and biostatistician Mark Jones, which concluded that \u201ccase-counting window bias\u201d had a significant effect on effectiveness estimates.<sup>17<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As explained by Lataster, this \u201cconcerns the 7 days, 14 days, or even 21 days after the jab where we are meant to overlook jab-related issues, such as COVID infections, for some odd reason as \u2018the vaccine has not had sufficient time to stimulate the immune system.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This may strike you as quite bizarre since all of the \u2018fully vaccinated\u2019 must go through the process of being \u2018partially vaccinated,\u2019 sometimes even more than once. To make matters worse, the unvaccinated do not get such a \u2018grace period,\u2019 meaning that there is also a clear bias at play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an example using data from Pfizer\u2019s clinical trial, the authors show that thanks to this bias, a vaccine with effectiveness of 0%, which is confirmed in the hypothetical clinical trial, could be seen in observational studies as having effectiveness of 48%.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.\u201cReply to Fung et. al. on COVID-19 Vaccine Case-Counting Window Biases Overstating Vaccine Effectiveness,\u201d authored by Lataster, which discussed how the counting window bias not only affected effectiveness estimates in observational studies but also safety estimates, suggesting a need for reassessment of vaccine safety.<sup>18<\/sup>&nbsp;The article also addresses \u201cthe mysterious rise in non-COVID excess deaths post-pandemic.\u201d<sup>19<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.\u201cHow the Case Counting Window Affected Vaccine Efficacy Calculations in Randomized Trials of COVID-19 Vaccines,\u201d again co-authored by Doshi and Fung, which detailed how case-counting window issues also overestimated effectiveness in Pfizer and Moderna clinical trials.<sup>20<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4.A second article by Lataster, in which he highlighted and summarized the evidence showing that clinical trials were affected by adverse effect counting window issues that led to exaggerated safety estimates.<sup>21<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTogether, these four articles make clear that claims made about COVID-19 vaccines; effectiveness and safety were exaggerated in the clinical trials and observational studies, whilst also finding time to discuss myocarditis and perceived negative effectiveness, meaning that new analyses are very much needed,\u201d Lataster writes.<sup>22<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources for Those Injured by the COVID Jab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on data from across the world, it\u2019s beyond clear that the COVID shots are the most dangerous drugs ever deployed. If you already got one or more COVID jabs and are now reconsidering, you\u2019d be wise to avoid all vaccines from here on, as you need to end the assault on your body. Even if you haven\u2019t experienced any obvious side effects, your health may still be impacted long-term, so don\u2019t take any more shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re suffering from side effects, your first order of business is to eliminate the spike protein \u2014 and\/or any aberrant off-target protein \u2014 that your body is producing. Two remedies shown to bind to and facilitate the removal of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein are hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. I don\u2019t know if these drugs will work on off-target proteins and nanolipid accumulation as well, but it probably wouldn\u2019t hurt to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) has developed a post-vaccine treatment protocol called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19criticalcare.com\/protocol\/i-recover-post-vaccine-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I-RECOVER<\/a>. Since the protocol is continuously updated as more data become available, your best bet is to download the latest version straight from the FLCCC website at covid19criticalcare.com.<sup>23<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For additional suggestions, check out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/takecontrol.substack.com\/p\/spike-protein-detox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Council for Health\u2019s spike protein detox guide<\/a>,<sup>24<\/sup>&nbsp;which focuses on natural substances like herbs, supplements and teas. Sauna therapy can also help eliminate toxic and misfolded proteins by stimulating autophagy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"chd-defender-article__breadcrumb chd-defender-article__breadcrumb-date\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(110, 110, 110); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.6;\">October 17, 2023<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"chd-defender-article__breadcrumb chd-defender-article__breadcrumb-sep\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.375; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-style: italic;\">U.K. researchers used the gene-editing technology CRISPR to alter chicken DNA to create birds resistant to deadly bird flu viruses like H5N1. But the study was a failure, according to one critic, because the technology also helped the virus replicate more efficiently in human cells.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"chd-defender-article__authors\" style=\"margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;\"><span class=\"chd-defender-article__authors-by\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);\">by<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"chd-defender-article__authors-name\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 163); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/mike-capuzzo\/\">Mike Capuzzo<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"chd-defender-article__date\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(28, 28, 28); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Editor\u2019s note:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">This article originally appeared in The Defender on Oct. 17, 2023. We are republishing it today as part of The Defender\u2019s ongoing coverage of bird flu.<\/em><\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Scientists who used the\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/crispr-gene-editing-safety-risk\/\">gene-editing technology CRISPR<\/a>\u00a0to create chickens resistant to avian influenza also showed how quickly a dangerous bird flu could mutate from laboratory chickens to humans, critics of a\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-41476-3\">new study<\/a>\u00a0in the journal Nature Communications told\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/\">The Defender<\/a>.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The authors of the study, led by researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, altered the genetic code of 10 chickens to make them resistant to a bird-flu virus and then exposed them to the virus.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">They also included 10 chickens in the study that were not genetically altered. All 10 chickens not genetically altered got sick when they were exposed to the virus. Only one of the genetically altered chickens got sick with the bird flu.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Altering a species\u2019 DNA \u201cpromises a new way to make permanent changes in the disease resistance of an animal,\u201d University of Edinburgh embryologist\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/profile\/mike-mcgrew\">Mike McGrew, Ph.D.<\/a>, an author of the study, said at an Oct. 5\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/10\/science\/bird-flu-chickens-crispr.html\">news briefing<\/a>\u00a0announcing the\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/gene-editing-chicken-resistant-bird-flu\">peer-reviewed research<\/a>.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cThis can be passed down through all the gene-edited animals, to all the offspring.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">According to the study, \u201cChickens genetically resistant to avian influenza could prevent future outbreaks. \u2026 Breeding for resistance and resilience to disease has significant potential in farmed poultry,\u201d freeing farmers from routinely having to\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/big-pharma\/\">vaccinate<\/a>\u00a0birds.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">But Jonathan Latham, executive director of the\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/bioscienceresource.org\/\">Bioscience Resource Project<\/a>, who has a master\u2019s degree in crop genetics and a Ph.D. in virology, told The Defender,<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cThe experiments were ultimately a failure of \u2018the operation was a success but the patient died\u2019 variety.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">When the 10 genetically altered chickens were exposed to a much higher dose of bird flu \u2014 more in line with what the chickens could be exposed to in nature or a factory farm setting \u2014 five of the 10 chickens developed the flu.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Virus samples collected from the infected, genetically altered birds showed the virus had made several mutations that seemed to allow it to bind to the ANP32A protein to replicate in the chickens, the study reported.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The virus also mutated a workaround to bind to two other related proteins for replication.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Worse yet, according to Latham, mutations also helped the virus replicate more efficiently in human cells.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">While viral mutations in human cells in vitro may not occur when the virus reaches a human being, the result was not encouraging, Latham said, adding that more efficient infection in human beings would be \u201clikely.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cThe overarching concern about\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/sick-chickens-influenza-outbreak\/\">avian flu<\/a>\u00a0is not that chickens will die,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is that large commercial flocks allow flu types acquired from wild birds to evolve in them, and those flu types then go on to infect and actually kill their human owners, farmworkers and potentially cause a pandemic.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">CDC: Risk to humans \u2018small\u2019<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Avian flu, or bird flu, is caused by viruses adapted to birds. A particularly lethal version of bird flu known as H5N1 has spread since 1996, with rapid global transmission in recent years, killing millions of wild and farm birds,\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/18\/health\/avian-flu-h5n1-foxes.html\">infecting wild mammals<\/a>\u00a0like mink and bear,\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/explain\/2023\/bird-flu-cambodia-death\">causing isolated human deaths<\/a>, and wreaking economic havoc in the U.S. poultry industry and among American egg consumers.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The World Health Organization (WHO) said\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/12-07-2023-ongoing-avian-influenza-outbreaks-in-animals-pose-risk-to-humans\">H5N1 outbreaks<\/a>\u00a0\u201chave caused devastation in animal populations, including poultry, wild birds, and some mammals, and harmed farmers\u2019 livelihoods and the\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/big-food\/\">food trade<\/a>\u201d and \u201cpose ongoing risks to humans.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">By 2022, deadly H5N1 outbreaks in poultry and wild birds had occurred in\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/12-07-2023-ongoing-avian-influenza-outbreaks-in-animals-pose-risk-to-humans\">67 countries in five continents<\/a>, with more than 131 million domestic poultry lost due to death or culling in affected farms and villages. Another 14 outbreaks were reported this year, mostly in the Americas.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">By March, the\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/bird-flu-vaccine-chickens.html\">largest bird flu outbreak in U.S. history<\/a>\u00a0had struck the American poultry industry, leading to the deaths of millions of chickens, higher egg prices, supply shortages and the Biden administration considering mass vaccination of poultry.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The virus infected wild birds and more than 58 million farmed chickens in 47 states, jumped to mammals like raccoons and bears, and could mutate and spread to humans, raising the \u201c<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/bird-flu-vaccine-chickens.html\">frightening specter of a human pandemic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Though H5N1 in humans can cause severe disease with a high mortality rate,\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/12-07-2023-ongoing-avian-influenza-outbreaks-in-animals-pose-risk-to-humans\">the WHO said<\/a>, only eight cases worldwide were reported from December 2021 to June 2023, with infection mostly linked to close contact with infected birds or contaminated environments.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/inhumans.htm\">risk to humans<\/a>\u00a0was small and the chances of a global pandemic were low.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">In the past, bird flus have been responsible for some of the world\u2019s deadliest pandemics, according to the CDC. In 1957, a new bird flu emerged in East Asia, triggering the\u00a0\u201c<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/timeline\/avian-timeline-1880-1959.htm\">Asian flu<\/a>\u201d\u00a0pandemic that killed an estimated 1.1 million people worldwide and 116,000 in the U.S. In 1968, a novel bird flu emerged from Hong Kong and caused the\u00a0\u201c<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/timeline\/avian-timeline-1960-1999.htm\">Hong Kong flu<\/a>\u201d\u00a0pandemic, with an\u00a0estimated 1 million deaths worldwide and about 100,000 in the U.S.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The \u201cSpanish\u201d i<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/avianflu\/timeline\/avian-timeline-1880-1959.htm\">nfluenza H1N1 pandemic of 1918-1919<\/a>\u00a0killed an estimated 50-100 million people worldwide, a\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/09\/health\/coronavirus-is-very-different-from-the-spanish-flu-of-1918-heres-how.html\">widely accepted figure<\/a>\u00a0the CDC supports, though\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7314216\/\">recent scholarship<\/a>\u00a0suggests the death toll, while major, was under 25 million. The \u201cSpanish flu\u201d virus was not isolated during 1918-1919, the CDC said, \u201cbut when the technology was available the genetic sequence was later determined to be an avian-like H1N1 virus.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"chd-shortcode-wrap\" style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; z-index: 0;\"><a class=\"chd-shortcode__link\" data-gtm=\"1\" data-section-count=\"\" data-section-name=\"Take Action Banner 2\" data-section-position=\"\" data-section-text=\"\" data-section-type=\"Banner\" data-element-count=\"1\" data-element-cta=\"Order Now\" data-element-name=\"Banner 1\" data-element-position=\"1\" data-element-text=\"\u201cThe Wuhan Cover-Up\u201d by Robert F. 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The researchers used a milder dose than the deadly H5N1 virus spreading around the world.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">When the researchers gave the gene-edited chickens, only one of which was infected with the first dose of the flu virus, the second, stronger dose of the virus \u2014 1,000 times higher \u2014 five of the 10 were infected. But they had low viral loads and didn\u2019t infect the other genetically altered chickens, researchers said.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The researchers also said that when they created chicken cells that lacked the ANP32A protein and the two other proteins that the virus mutated to attack, the virus was unable to replicate.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">This result suggested to the researchers that their next step should be to create chickens genetically altered in all three genes of the protein family.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">But Latham said knocking out all three genes would be impossible, as the study itself indicates.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cThis combination of knockouts is expected to be deleterious to the animals\u2019 health, but illustrates a proof of principle that multiple edits in host genes could be combined to confer sterile resistance.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cIf they eliminated all three genes, the chicken would be dead,\u201d Latham said.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The researchers didn\u2019t check to see if contaminating DNA from the CRISPR machinery remained in the chicken, a known risk of gene editing, he said.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Latham saw the study as unfortunately typical of science journals, edited down primarily to publish, with \u201cthings left out, artfully presented, flaws hidden.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/vetmed.umn.edu\/bio\/college-of-veterinary-medicine\/carol-cardona\">Carol Cardona, DVM, Ph.D.<\/a>, a professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences and an avian disease specialist, told\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/10\/science\/bird-flu-chickens-crispr.html\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0the study showed the difficulty of engineering animals against rapidly replicating and evolving influenza.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as an easy button for influenza,\u201d she said.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Jaydee Hanson, policy director for the\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforfoodsafety.org\/staff\">Center for Food Safety<\/a>\u00a0in Washington, D.C., told The Defender his organization was more concerned with vaccinating U.S. poultry against salmonella, which has mutated into deadlier forms and,\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/salmonella\/index.html#:~:text=CDC%20estimates%20Salmonella%20bacteria%20cause,the%20United%20States%20every%20year.\">according to the CDC<\/a>, causes 1.35 million infections a year, with 26,500 hospitalizations and 420 deaths.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t (vaccinate chickens) for things that can kill people, but we do it for bird flu that kills birds,\u201d Hanson said, \u201cbecause that impacts the mega-chicken producers\u2019 bottom line.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cGenetic engineering for salmonella won\u2019t work either,\u201d Hanson said. \u201cThere are too many variables.\u201d<\/p><\/div><div class=\"chd-defender-article__footer\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><div class=\"chd-defender-article__footer-authors\" style=\"margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><div class=\"chd-defender-article__footer-author\" style=\"margin: 0px; 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font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(28, 28, 28);\">Mike Capuzzo is a reporter for The Defender. 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