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Taylor Odisho

Expert Who Predicted COVID Crisis Sounds Alarm on 'Drug Resistant' Bird Flu with 'Pandemic Potential' After Teen Tests Positive

The former public health official who rung the alarm on the COVID-19 pandemic is doing same with the recent bird flu outbreak. (Credit: GREG NASH/AFP)

Dr. Rick Bright, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority who filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump administration for ignoring his warnings about the COVID-19 pandemic, is ringing the alarm on a drug resistant bird flu.

"No way to minimize emergence of antiviral drug resistance from human #H5N1 virus w/ pandemic potential. Time to re-assess the IRAT risk tool," Bright published on his X account on Thursday.

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