Amid fears of bird flu spreading to other species, social media posts and articles claim the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded University of Wisconsin research to make the virus transmissible to humans, some implying an intentional effort to create a new pandemic.
Amid fears of bird flu spreading to other species, social media posts and articles claim the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded University of Wisconsin research to make the virus transmissible to humans, some implying an intentional effort to create a new pandemic. This is false; a 2009 grant to study the virus fueled controversy but did not create a variant capable of human infection, according to the researchers and an independent expert.
But the claims of an intentional effort to spread bird flu are baseless.
"This could help with the development of an early warning system in which scientists would be able to monitor wildly circulating avian influenza for concerning mutations. Doing so would help scientists prepare for avian influenza viruses with pandemic potential through the development of therapeutics and vaccines and other public health interventions aimed at viruses with concerning mutations.
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