In 2005, Dr. Fauci revived NIAID’s script from the 1976 debacle. This time the villain was an avian flu, H5N1. Like an agitated Chicken Little, Dr. Fauci had been warning the world about the imminent bird flu pandemic since 2001. That year, in a paper, “Infectious Diseases: Considerations for the 21st Century,” Dr. Fauci balefully forecast a bird-to-human transmission of an influenza scourge that would decimate global populations, beginning with Hong Kong.26 He predicted unprecedented carnage from this “new strain of influenza A virus entering a population that is relatively naïve for the
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