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No Correction from AP on Unfounded News of Human Death from Bird Flu

The Associated Press is capable of very quickly issuing “fact checks” when it suits them especially when they are supportive of Joe Biden in some way. However, 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.

The WHO said it wasn’t clear how the man became infected, although H5N2 has been reported in poultry in Mexico.

However, when you read a few paragraphs down, you see more information that…

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