This article was originally published by Cassie B. at Natural News. 

As many parts of the world begin to return to a new post-pandemic normal, we’re starting to see signs of those who profited from Covid trying to position other illnesses as the next big disease to fear. Although monkeypox may be getting all of the headlines right now, some believe it is actually bird flu that could take Covid’s crown.

Also known as avian influenza or H5N1, research into bird flu has long been funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates, and that should be the first clue that something bad could be brewing. It’s not just the money they and others have been throwing at H5N1, however, that is concerning – it’s the fact that they’ve been funding research developing a pathogen of bird flu that is capable of infecting humans in a controversial gain of function experiments.

In an interview with CenterPoint in March, former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield made the startling claim: “I believe the great pandemic still in the future, and that’s going to be a bird flu pandemic for man. It’s going to have significant mortality in the 10 to 50 % range. It’s going to be trouble.”

Given that natural bird flu is not harmful to humans, this comment certainly raised some alarm bells. In early April, a highly pathogenic bird flu strain devastated American chicken and turkey flocks, resulting in the slaughtering of millions of animals, but it has been something that cannot be transmitted from person to person in the past.

So why have the U.S. and other nations been stockpiling H5N1 vaccines, with one jab by Audenz being marketed for 2022? And how does this tie into the fact that the first-ever positive case of H5N1 in a person was identified at the end of last month in the U.S.?

Is a new pandemic on the horizon?

All signs point to human bird flu being created in a lab, and the fact that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates have both had a hand in funding gain of function research with this very goal in mind does not bode well for any of us. Some of this research, in fact, has been carried out in Ukraine Biolabs with funding from the Pentagon.

The two have both funded work by Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka identifying mutations in different bird flu viruses that could have pandemic potential. Fauci has been funding his work since 1990. In one experiment, the researcher mixed the bird flu virus with the Spanish flu virus to create a deadly respiratory virus capable of human transmission. He has also created an airborne hybrid of bird flu and swine flu that can completely evade the human immune system and leave people completely defenseless against it.

Fauci has also been funding the work of a team of Dutch researchers, under the guidance of virologist Ron Fouchier, who are creating an airborne version of avian flu using genetic engineering and the serial infection of ferrets.

In other words, researchers have been hard at work manipulating bird flu to find ways to make it airborne and capable of causing infections across species. This type of work was so concerning that the American government temporarily banned it in 2014, although that ban was lifted in 2017. The ban wasn’t enough to deter researchers anyway, as Fauci continued funding gain of function research on different coronaviruses during that time in China.

Could we be facing a future where a weaponized bird flu capable of wiping out half the planet’s population could be released to infect the masses and scare everyone into getting dangerous and profitable vaccines?