The World Health Organization announced its fears regarding the spread of the H5N1 bird flu pandemic and warned against contact with farms, as well as dead and dying birds in fields and farms. The danger lies not only in transmission from birds to humans but also from human to human. There have been death cases reported in Cambodia, indicating that a father was infected with bird flu, and its incubation period ranges from two to five days. Symptoms include high fever, fatigue, diarrhea, muscle pain, and sore throat, with its severity leading to pneumonia and death.
In this context, Professor Raef Redha, President of the Lebanese Medical Social Gathering and Representative of the International Middle Eastern Medical Association, expressed surprise at the re-emergence of diseases that had become extinct. He cautioned that this resurgence could partially be linked to biowarfare that has been repeatedly warned against. Redha suggested that some countries storing these viruses might release them to produce vaccines, as well as to increase the number of reported deaths and distract the world with diseases. He also expressed concern that this could be tied to the recent balloon incident between America and China, stating, "What we warned about earlier is that their laboratories are ready to manufacture and modify the viruses that have resurfaced mysteriously."
