What is interesting is that the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, research clinicians that I talked to ALL had lingering effects of Covid or “Long Covid” without connecting their new illnesses with Covid. 3/13

“Flu viruses, unlike SARS-CoV-2, also tend to be more severe for young children than adults. Should H5N1 start spreading in earnest among humans, closing schools “is probably one of the single most effective interventions that you could do,””

At least a dozen people have been sickened with E. coli food poisoning linked to organic walnuts sold in bulk in 19 states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. The nuts were sold in natural food and co-op stores such as Whole Foods and Market of Choice. trib.al/Gz0NeMt

Taking a break from here, but wanted to share this...
Trained a technician for 8 months in microscopy to analyze some brain slides for me. Tech left the lab after their first box of #COVID brain slices and left me this card on my lab bench space. Now imagine the life of

I like this idea.

Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers [influencers] will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

Funeral this morning.
Send funny things please. (Bonus points for cats)

#COVIDisAirborne and solvable HEPA/ventilate n95 NYFarmer NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy Rick Bright Thank you! These links are helpful! I know I had also seen a list somewhere that included other non bird animals for NY that tested positive (I think I read there was a fox?). Do you know where I could find that data too?

🚨 LARGE BIRD FLU OUTBREAK IN FARMERS

NYFarmer #COVIDisAirborne and solvable HEPA/ventilate n95 Gosh when do large animal vets even get a chance to read anything!

Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has some good stuff but not enough out there - they can do testing.

J Scott Weese is a vet, great follow, his blog is outstanding, calm/rational.

Following the PPE recs will hopefully keep ppl safe.

This guy is quickly becoming my favorite.

USDA says it is testing beef for H5N1 bird flu virus abc17news.com/cnn-health/202…

Can anyone help with info for a vet (and her dairy farmer sister) looking for h5n1 info?

Interesting #H5N1 preprint on wastewater just dropped.

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Three take-homes:

1. Can H5 be detected in wastewater? Yes, one company (Verily) now has an assay. It's 100% specific. Huge first step.

#COVIDisAirborne and solvable HEPA/ventilate n95 NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy That’s why I am getting on call tomorrow. Problem is shortage of rural vets. So much harder for vets to make a living in rural areas. Plus extreme distrust of urban activists like NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy who are very open about harming regional dairy and beef farmers

A thread summarizing a dairy farmer’s perspective

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The FDA just banned labs like mine to create a test for a bird flu. More regs that are anti-consumer but don’t worry there’s an exclusion for academic medical centers like they’re always are. So everybody can wait in line at their local university for an overpriced & slow test.