Quote:August 25, 2025 / Joseph P. Farrell

Last week you may recall that I blogged about what may be an regional outbreak of rabbit papilloma virus in Colorado:

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH BUGS BUNNY IN COLORADO?

As often happens in such cases, this blog generated a modest wave of articles from the Gizars about similar strange outbreaks of similar animal symptoms of tumors, warts, and so on. For example, E.E. shared this article about a similar phenomenon happening to deer in several American states being photographed with bulges that look like tumors, which, the article assures us (somewhat less than convincingly in my opinion) are nothing but "cutaneous fibromas", or simply put, "deer warts" (and if you're in the habit of just reading my blog and not clicking the link, you'll want to click this link, and just look at the pictures of these infected animals):  [Warning: horror pics ahead]

Mutant deer with horrifying flesh bubbles spotted in multiple US states as fears of an outbreak grip the nation

The article is interesting because it not only includes those horrendous-looking pictures of infected rabbits and squirrels in addition to deer, but also because in doing so it also confirms the wider context of the papilloma rabbit outbreak, and blames it all on the spread of ticks and mosquitoes biting animals with contaminated blood, and then infecting other animals with it:

Quote:This year, Americans have also been encountering mutated rabbits and squirrels which have been spreading their own species-specific viruses throughout the US. These animals have dealt with similar sores and growths on their bodies as well.

The condition spreading through deer this summer is part of the same broad family of viruses that can affect humans, known as papillomaviruses, which target the skin and mucous membranes.

In humans, papillomaviruses cause conditions like common warts, plantar warts, and genital warts, and some strains are linked to cancers such as cervical or throat cancer.

While both deer and human papillomaviruses lead to growths by infecting skin cells, the deer version is species-specific, meaning it's adapted only to infect deer and cannot jump to humans or other animals due to differences in how the virus attaches itself and enters cells in different species.

Like last week's blog about the rabbit papilloma outbreak, the current article ends by noting that these growths are apparently not painful and fall off after a few months:

Quote:However, the condition is rarely fatal. The deer's immune system fights off the virus, and the warts shrink and disappear on their own after a few months.

And as always, and even though there is "nothing to see here so move along," we can also blame it all on climate change, and also on the presence of social media and more and more people noticing the phemonenon and taking pictures:

Quote:While climate changes in recent years are helping the virus to spread, Dr Awan noted that there's one other factor contributing to the increase in deer wart sightings: social media.

'People are starting to talk about it more, they're starting to document it more on social media, and hence, there's been a lot more discussion about this,' the doctor explained.

I can readily admit that such things are brought on by tick bites and mosquito bites, but what I'm not prepared to admit is that these outbreaks are normal, and that we can "move along, nothing to see here." As I mentioned in my previous blog about the rabbit papillomas, I've seen a lot of wildlife in my life, including innumerable rabbits, jackrabbits(being from South Dakota), and all sorts of deer, and have done so from Massachusetts to Oregon and Washington and Arkansas and Georgia. I've been all over the country, and have seen countless squirrels, rabbits, and deer, and in my 68 years, have never encountered any animal displaying these afflictions. Ever. And in all that time, I have seen plenty of rabbits and squirrels and deer with all sorts of ticks gorging themselves on their hosts. And again, have never seen any of these animals afflicted with papillomas such as are pictured in the article above.  During that same long time period, there have been long hot dry spells, long hot wet spells, cool summers, and so on, and increases in ticks and mosquitos, no climate change, and so on.

That fact raises my suspicion meter into the red zone: why is there such an apparent sudden rise in such cases? I'm simply not buying, not for one moment, that this is purely or merely "natural" nor the result of "climate change" or a sudden increase of infected ticks and mosquitos. I'll say it plainly, and for the record: something else is going on. Just exactly what that "something else" may be I do not know, but for the moment, my four favorite off-the-end-of-the-speculation-twig hypotheses are: (1) it may have something to do with aerial spraying; (2) it may have - odd as it sounds - something to do with the Covid potion injections, in that we may be watching a mutated effect that jumped species from ticks or mosquitoes biting humans who took the injections, and then biting these animals; or (3) perhaps some experiment somewhere on rabbits, and/or squirrels, and/or deer either escaped the laboratory, or was deliberately released; and finally, (4) some combination of the previous three.

O.K. There. I've said it. Now you can call me crazy.

See you on the flip side...