It is becoming quite clear that the World Health Organization (WHO) is longing to return to the days when its band of bureaucrats wielded enormous powers due to fears about the COVID pandemic and the elite media peddled misinformation produced by “experts” to a captive audience.

Legal Insurrection has followed the severe bird flu pandemic since reports of its initial outbreaks on American poultry farms, including its spread to mammals.  We noted that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is now being reported in cattle in six states, and a Texas man had a case.

But we have also stressed that the disease has been mild in cows, and the Texas man essentially had a bad case of “pink eye.”

Yet it seems the global health bureaucracy’s new motto is “never let a good virus go to waste.” WHO is now expressing “enormous concern” about the spread of the new bird flu.

On April 18, Dr. Jeremy Farrar — WHO’s chief scientist — said the current outbreak, which began in 2020 and reached the United States in 2022, is a “significant public health concern” as infections are spreading among mammals, stressing that there is an “extremely high” mortality rate in humans...