When a major story AP published about a bird flu death turned out to be, well, fake news, nary a peep of correction from them as of this writing.
I am referring to the AP story written by Lauran Neergsard on Wednesday which blasted out this headline: "Man in Mexico died of a bird flu strain that hadn't been confirmed before in a human, WHO says."
A man's death in Mexico was caused by a strain of bird flu called H5N2 that has never before been found in a human, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
"Chronic kidney failure, diabetes, and high blood pressure." That's quite a list of "Underlying ailments." And if you thought that perhaps AP should have held off on its alarmist headline, you would be right because a couple of days later on Friday, Reuters reported that "Mexico says bird flu patient died of chronic disease, not virus."
A man who contracted bird flu in Mexico died due to chronic diseases and not the virus, Mexico's health ministry said on Friday.
Mexico's health ministry on Friday stressed that the 59-year-old man's death was due to chronic conditions that led to septic shock, and was not attributed to the virus.
Yet still no update nor correction of the fake news bird flu story by AP. Many people can see the record of WHO on the COVID pandemic and be skeptical of their search for new pandemics.
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