The Good & Bad News About the WHO's 2024-25 H5N1 Panic-Pandemic

How can H5N1 become a global pandemic? It can’t. It can cause a ‘panic-pandemic’ but not a highly infectious viral pandemic. Here's what you need to know.

October 24, 2025: On October 10, 2024, members of the WHO, FDA, CDC, NIH, ASPR, BARDA, as well as U.S. infectious disease pediatricians, held a 6.5 hour meeting to discuss the current status and further development of vaccines for an emerging 2024-2025 H5N1 global flu pandemic.

The bad news is that the H5N1 pandemic (or other H5 strains) is locked and loaded to be a public health emergency, and vaccines are already being developed and stockpiled. Take a listen to this 2-minute video of Jerry Weir and Dr. Paul Offit from the October 10, 2024, H5N1 pandemic planning meeting.

Furthermore, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the H5N1 flu has a case fatality rate of 52%.

Now Here’s the Good News…

How can H5N1 become a global pandemic? It can’t. It can cause a ‘panic-pandemic’ but not a highly infectious viral pandemic.

Here's what you need to know.