The United States, Canada, and Mexico have launched a joint pandemic preparedness initiative that will unite the countries’ public health agencies around a “One Health” approach to addressing future pandemics.
This new initiative may empower the World Health Organization — the architect of the original One Health Initiative — to impose global control measures like vaccine passports and new policies targeting the “infodemic.”
“Because this is an initiative from the WHO, I am deeply concerned,” said Nicolas Hulscher, an epidemiologist and fellow at the McCullough Foundation. “They appear to be seeking domain over plants, animals, and humans — globalized, central control over public health policies in all participating countries.”
The WHO defines One Health as “an integrated, unifying approach to balance and optimize the health of people, animals and the environment.”
Public Health Canada says One Health “considers the relationships between the health of humans, animals, and the environment”, suggesting that future pandemics or public health threats may cross from animals to humans.
Hulscher suggested bird flu could become the source of the next pandemic — and the basis for imposing global control. He said, “The biopharmaceutical complex wishes for H5N1 bird flu to become a human pandemic, as it will give them another opportunity to implement draconian control measures and mandate mRNA injections. Their obsession with zoonotic diseases may be due to their potential for high mortality rates, which increases the probability of high vaccine uptake and adherence to strict countermeasures like lockdowns.”
In the October 2024 launch of the North American Preparedness for Animal and Human Pandemics Initiative, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cited the COVID-19 pandemic as the impetus for the new initiative.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that there are myriad political, legal, regulatory, policy, preparedness, and response challenges that can be best addressed through a stronger, coordinated regional approach across multiple sectors when facing large-scale events,” the HHS said in a statement.
The HHS identified several “priority issues” for the new initiative, including animal diseases with zoonotic potential, infectious diseases with pandemic potential, epidemiological surveillance, medical and public health countermeasures, border health measures, risk communications, and joint exercises and training.
The U.S. agencies involved in the initiative include the HHS, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of State.
The initiative’s One Health approach may also involve “non-government actors,” according to an HHS report.
Hulscher accused these public health agencies of being captured by Big Pharma. He said, “Pandemic preparedness is only a good thing when the agencies involved lack a nefarious agenda. Investigation into safe and effective treatments is critical in combating pandemics. Unfortunately, our public health agencies are compromised by the biopharmaceutical complex and thus seek to prioritize experimental injections over other medical countermeasures, regardless of their safety and efficacy.”
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Michael Nevradakis is based in Athens, Greece, and is a senior reporter for The Defender and a host of “Good Morning CHD.”