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When they tell you what they have planned, you better pay attention.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says evidence that a person is actually sick is not required for a "laboratory-confirmed" human influenza infection with "the potential to cause a pandemic" to trigger mandatory international reporting.
"Evidence of illness is not required for this report," WHO states in its latest Influenza at the Human-Animal Interface assessment, which covered July 8 through August 7, 2026.
WHO says countries must "immediately notify WHO of any laboratory-confirmed case of a recent human infection caused by an influenza A virus with the potential to cause a pandemic."
Then, immediately afterward:
"Evidence of illness is not required for this report."
The statement raises an obvious question: If evidence of illness is not required to set off a chain of events that could trigger authoritarian international pandemic response, what evidence is required?
WHO points to a "laboratory-confirmed" finding.
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I know we aren't a part of the WHO any longer, but if they do something insane again (like try to lock down the world), we'll still be impacted by it.
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