Officials say the risk to the general population remains low.

The Gateway Pundit has reported on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fear-mongering about a new potential pandemic of avian flu as if the public hasn't been subjected to enough panic and virus hoaxes in recent years.

In a move reminiscent of his overreaching COVID-19 policies, California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in California this month in response to the first human case of bird flu, which was in Louisiana.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Dr. Leana Wen, the Communist doctor who demanded Americans lose all their rights during the Covid pandemic, appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday to discuss the Bird Flu outbreak. She called for the Biden Regime to get millions of doses of vaccines to the American people as soon as possible, claiming that Trump may "hold up vaccine authorization" and "withhold testing." She added, "We should've learned our lesson from COVID" to justify even stricter measures.

Maricopa County is the fourth largest county in the United States, according to 2024 census data. This news of a potential outbreak discovered in wastewater comes at a suspicious time as President Trump is about to take office next month, and leftists are pushing fear porn and calling for lockdowns and potential mandates, as we saw with COVID.

If we learned anything from COVID, it's that you can't always trust the "science."

The Maricopa County Department of Public Health issued the following news release:

As part of routine wastewater surveillance in Maricopa County, Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) is reporting the detection of an influenza subtype associated with avian flu in local wastewater. No human cases of avian flu have been detected in Maricopa County, and the risk to the general population remains low.

 Wastewater monitoring is a tool used to detect genetic material from microbes, like influenza A and its subtypes, in untreated wastewater, helping inform public health and partners on changing disease activity. The influenza A(H5) subtype, which can include H5N1 that is associated with avian influenza (also known as bird flu), was detected by all three cities within Maricopa County that conduct wastewater monitoring—Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe—but it is not currently possible to confirm a precise source location of the viral detection.