“McAfee, founder of Fresno’s Raw Farm & the Raw Milk Institute, said his phone has been ringing off the hook w/‘customers asking for H5N1 milk because they want immunity from it.’”

This isn’t how you get immunity to H5N1. It might be how you die from it.

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Mayor Muriel Bowser lost majority job performance approval for the first time in her nine years in office, according to a Post-Schar School poll.

The slide in approval is sharpest among men and White people washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

NEW Businessweek feature investigation: Corporate America Never Really Quit Forced Labor.

Inmates do billions of dollars of work, touching almost every corner of US life. A trafficking lawsuit claims many are kept in prison because the business is just too good:

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Interesting homepage placement for my article

You get the worms by ingesting eggs shed in the feces of an infected person

Among the not-so-fun facts I learned reporting on the wonderful world of parasitic brain worms wapo.st/3UQw7Vp

psa: do not try to scarf down your lunch while on deadline writing about brain worms

I’m incredibly grateful to be nominated for a NABJ Salute to Excellence award for my story about a group of D.C. area mothers who honored their sons — each killed by gunfire — through a stage play.

These mothers’ strength made this story possible. 🙏🏽
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Democrats hope the move to reschedule marijuana will help them in November. The proposed change could set up a contrast between Biden and Trump, who has shown little interest in federal marijuana policy Michael Scherer David Ovalle Tyler Pager Fenit Nirappil washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

NEW: Latest tests from FDA show milk, other dairy products-cottage cheese + sour cream-confirm that pasteurization inactivates H5N1 bird flu. USDA also sampling ground beef at stores in states where dairy cows have tested +. Rachel Roubein and me. washingtonpost.com/health/2024/05…

In case you missed it on a Friday afternoon, the Biden administration is again delaying action on a proposed menthol cigarette ban

News — Biden admin is delaying menthol cigarette ban again amid political pressure.

Becerra to give statement this afternoon.

Sources stress — menthol ban is DELAYED, not DEAD yet. (Though every day of delay has real consequences.)

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California once led in government transparency. It descended into secrecy and opacity calmatters.org/commentary/202…

Three women contracted HIV after receiving vampire facials at an unlicensed spa with unsanitary practices.

A new CDC report details how disease detectives unraveled the case washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…

NEW: As bird flu spreads in cows, U.S. response has echoes of early covid. Testing of cows too limited. Results + studies not shared fast enough. Genetic analysis of H5N1 suggests outbreak started months before it was noticed. w ⁦Rachel Roubein⁩ washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…

The USDA ordered dairy cows tested for bird flu (H5N1) in order to cross state lines.

Evidence is mounting that the virus is far more widespread than feared. Risk to humans is low, but the way to neutralize public health threats is to do so early wapo.st/49LSKic

Dairy cows must be tested for bird flu when moving across state lines under a new federal order.

This comes as evidence mounts that the virus is more widespread in dairy herds than expected and producers resist voluntary testing. No paywall: wapo.st/49LSKic