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H5N1, a crisis not yet, February 23, 2025?
You be, that of a higher judge!
With prices escalating, while you take the escalator and/or
The elevator to be met by an
An avian FLU, a bird FLU! It is zoonotic
… Animal to humans, humans to animals
human -to-humans?

What disrupts lives an unknown, a force of
A meteorite, an unsinkable ship like the Titanic
Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunami caused by
Earthquakes and underwater landslides,
Plate tectonics by seduction, rogue waves,

Storm surges, volcanoe eruptions …
A microbe approaching without sounds
Gone un-noticed
You got zero chance
As no warnings your ways

World’s pandemics:
Arises of zoonotic in nature
Animals -to- humans transmission …
Animals to human’s transmission
14th century plague, Europe in 1346- to 1353

As Black Death came with bubonic plague
As bacterium Yersenia pestis came crushing in
As spread thru rat fleas … 50 million people
Taken too early to their graves
All in all, dying without hopes

Whom may you ask, they sought help?
Perhaps saint Grace!
Whom never heard their cries
Was anyone named Grace?
As babes, mothers and all souls
… All unheard, as no medical soldiers came

20th century …
Spanish FLU in 1918
As pneumonic plague crept in, as H1N1
A virus contains genes from a bird
This pandemic Mid Sept to December
Yes, bird FLU virus
Influenza type 1
As 50-100 million lives gone
Real numbers, don’t lie!
Perhaps not, this time!

How you compared to Ebola
To SARS-COV-2?
Ebola genus ebolaviruses
Family filo-viri-dae
Single stranded negative sensed-RNA

80-90% mortality rate!
Treatments: … Inmazeb & Ebanga
Transmitted skin and bodily fluids
… and infected corpses

How about MPox? There’s vaccine
That’s hope caused by the monkeypox virus
Symptoms rash, can be confused chicken pox
With flu-like, running nose, body aches, chills
With family as Variola, smallpox, Two types: clade I and II

How spread?
Infected monkeys, rodents, person-to-person
How about SARS?
We know about …
SARS-CoV-2 or Covid-19

An aerosol-RNA-based
Zoonotic origin, bats in Wuhan, China
Know 2024 has killed many
66, 305 million, worldwide …
As February 9, 2025

What have we learned?
If anything at all!
That, an outbreak are inevitable?
Yes, that an outbreak are inevitable!
It comes like thief in the night with no signs

… We ignored
Enters speedy
Like that of a train,
Jetliner, torpedo or all on its own
Like an unknown

How you built preparedness?
How you save lives? We know, what we know!
Let’s not ignore facts, statistics not death maps
Or death traps by not being prepared
When you prepared, you not scared!

History tells us facts … this way
To curb out more facts
…in