Cabrejas
@cabrejazz.bsky.social
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The CDC tracker now says 960+ people exposed to H5 (usually farmworkers) have been tested since March 2024. So 80 people were tested in the last few days, or the tracker wasn't updating for some time. (I'd guess the latter)
Glad to see SOME testing. Unfortunately, the tracker may not be reliable.
Glad to see SOME testing. Unfortunately, the tracker may not be reliable.
According to CDC's tracker, about 870 farmworkers had been tested for bird flu between March 2024 and March 2025. Another 10 were tested in April. Zero since then 🙃
See for yourself @waybackmachine.bsky.social www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/h5-...
See for yourself @waybackmachine.bsky.social www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/h5-...
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The CDC tracker now says 960+ people exposed to H5 (usually farmworkers) have been tested since March 2024. So 80 people were tested in the last few days, or the tracker wasn't updating for some time. (I'd guess the latter)
Glad to see SOME testing. Unfortunately, the tracker may not be reliable.
Glad to see SOME testing. Unfortunately, the tracker may not be reliable.
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"symptoms included a high fever, confusion and trouble breathing"
There have been three severe #H5N1 conf cases in North America
2 died and 3rd was hospitalized 2 months
First #H5N5 human case is severe
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
There have been three severe #H5N1 conf cases in North America
2 died and 3rd was hospitalized 2 months
First #H5N5 human case is severe
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
New form of bird flu hospitalizes Washington state resident
A person in Washington has been infected with a new form of bird flu virus.
www.latimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"symptoms included a high fever, confusion and trouble breathing"
There have been three severe #H5N1 conf cases in North America
2 died and 3rd was hospitalized 2 months
First #H5N5 human case is severe
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
There have been three severe #H5N1 conf cases in North America
2 died and 3rd was hospitalized 2 months
First #H5N5 human case is severe
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
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"The A(H5N5)-Δstalk viruses appear to be neurotropic in mammals, as seen from the histologic lesions and immunostaining in ferret brain tissues"
Note H5N5 human case in Washington had
"confusion"
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Note H5N5 human case in Washington had
"confusion"
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Multiple transatlantic incursions of highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N5) virus into North America and spillover to mammals
Erdelyan et al. reveal that seabirds likely facilitated the spread of A(H5N5) viruses
from Europe to Canada. All viral segments were Eurasian. Hemagglutinin contained substitutions
not present in Cana...
www.cell.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"The A(H5N5)-Δstalk viruses appear to be neurotropic in mammals, as seen from the histologic lesions and immunostaining in ferret brain tissues"
Note H5N5 human case in Washington had
"confusion"
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Note H5N5 human case in Washington had
"confusion"
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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USDA confirms first H5N1 avian flu detection in Nebraska dairy cows
Nebraska's agriculture department said the herd is located in the central part of the state and is under quarantine.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Nebraska's agriculture department said the herd is located in the central part of the state and is under quarantine.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
September 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
USDA confirms first H5N1 avian flu detection in Nebraska dairy cows
Nebraska's agriculture department said the herd is located in the central part of the state and is under quarantine.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Nebraska's agriculture department said the herd is located in the central part of the state and is under quarantine.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
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David Brooks, fascism apologist.
People who choose fascism aren't responsible, the decadent left made them? The Nazis tried that excuse too.
Now as then, it's based on lies. All US media sources were not produced by leftists. That's insane. Fox, Rogan, Daily Wire, etc., not to mention Elon Musk's X.
People who choose fascism aren't responsible, the decadent left made them? The Nazis tried that excuse too.
Now as then, it's based on lies. All US media sources were not produced by leftists. That's insane. Fox, Rogan, Daily Wire, etc., not to mention Elon Musk's X.
August 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
David Brooks, fascism apologist.
People who choose fascism aren't responsible, the decadent left made them? The Nazis tried that excuse too.
Now as then, it's based on lies. All US media sources were not produced by leftists. That's insane. Fox, Rogan, Daily Wire, etc., not to mention Elon Musk's X.
People who choose fascism aren't responsible, the decadent left made them? The Nazis tried that excuse too.
Now as then, it's based on lies. All US media sources were not produced by leftists. That's insane. Fox, Rogan, Daily Wire, etc., not to mention Elon Musk's X.
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Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled.
Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.
Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.
July 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled.
Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.
Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.
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I was feeling so depressed on July 4th that I decided to think about something even worse to take my mind off it: why haven't we heard much about H5N1 lately?
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Where Has All the Bird Flu Gone?
All quiet on the American front for H5N1, but not necessarily the good kind of quiet
open.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I was feeling so depressed on July 4th that I decided to think about something even worse to take my mind off it: why haven't we heard much about H5N1 lately?
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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"Let it rip" is always a bad idea for containing epidemics. It's a REALLY bad idea for containing H5N1 in chickens. Besides the obvious biosafety issues, it has terrible ecological, economic, & food security consequences as well.
Must-read in @science.org today 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Must-read in @science.org today 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The consequences of letting avian influenza run rampant in US poultry
The approach proposed by a high-ranking US government official would be dangerous and unethical
www.science.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Let it rip" is always a bad idea for containing epidemics. It's a REALLY bad idea for containing H5N1 in chickens. Besides the obvious biosafety issues, it has terrible ecological, economic, & food security consequences as well.
Must-read in @science.org today 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Must-read in @science.org today 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We will need to build a political movement that prevents this from ever happening again. We can learn to build faster, but you can't rebuild a country every 2 or 4 years. That's the only answer right now
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We will need to build a political movement that prevents this from ever happening again. We can learn to build faster, but you can't rebuild a country every 2 or 4 years. That's the only answer right now
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This is a terrible decision. Our ability to respond to pandemic influenza viruses is now severely compromised.
BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses.
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
www.statnews.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This is a terrible decision. Our ability to respond to pandemic influenza viruses is now severely compromised.
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From @npr.org: Trump Admin canceled its #birdflu vaccine deal with #Moderna.
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social expressed disappointment but shared it was "unsurprising given the politically-motivated, evidence-free rhetoric that tries to paint mRNA vaccines as being dangerous."
More here ⤵️
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social expressed disappointment but shared it was "unsurprising given the politically-motivated, evidence-free rhetoric that tries to paint mRNA vaccines as being dangerous."
More here ⤵️
Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine
The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.
www.npr.org
May 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
From @npr.org: Trump Admin canceled its #birdflu vaccine deal with #Moderna.
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social expressed disappointment but shared it was "unsurprising given the politically-motivated, evidence-free rhetoric that tries to paint mRNA vaccines as being dangerous."
More here ⤵️
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social expressed disappointment but shared it was "unsurprising given the politically-motivated, evidence-free rhetoric that tries to paint mRNA vaccines as being dangerous."
More here ⤵️
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Check out this news story that @nature.com wrote describing our recent preprint where we tested our H5 mRNA vaccine in calves.
The data look good and we are currently testing the vaccine in lactating cattle...more to come!
The data look good and we are currently testing the vaccine in lactating cattle...more to come!
As bird flu sweeps across US poultry and cattle farms, researchers are racing to find ways to contain the outbreaks before they ignite a human pandemic. Now, a team of scientists has developed a fresh approach: the first mRNA bird-flu vaccine for cattle.
https://go.nature.com/4kbOvTe
https://go.nature.com/4kbOvTe
Bird flu vaccine for cattle aces early test
Vaccines for livestock could reduce the risk of human outbreaks, but hurdles remain.
go.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Check out this news story that @nature.com wrote describing our recent preprint where we tested our H5 mRNA vaccine in calves.
The data look good and we are currently testing the vaccine in lactating cattle...more to come!
The data look good and we are currently testing the vaccine in lactating cattle...more to come!
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"We just don’t know why there haven’t been cases."
— @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
Experts warn that #birdflu infections might be going undetected among farmworkers which seems to be pushed by under-testing, fear from farmworkers, and federal cuts from the current admin.
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— @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
Experts warn that #birdflu infections might be going undetected among farmworkers which seems to be pushed by under-testing, fear from farmworkers, and federal cuts from the current admin.
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The US hasn't seen a human bird flu case in 3 months. Experts are wondering why
Health officials are urging vigilance as reports of bird flu cases in humans appear to have stopped.
apnews.com
May 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"We just don’t know why there haven’t been cases."
— @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
Experts warn that #birdflu infections might be going undetected among farmworkers which seems to be pushed by under-testing, fear from farmworkers, and federal cuts from the current admin.
Read more ⤵️
— @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
Experts warn that #birdflu infections might be going undetected among farmworkers which seems to be pushed by under-testing, fear from farmworkers, and federal cuts from the current admin.
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#USDA reported 2 new #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in Texas today, the first there since last Dec. Anyone know if these are new spillovers? it isn't easy to get that kind of info from USDA anymore.
Cumulative national total: 1065 herds in 17 states.
www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
Cumulative national total: 1065 herds in 17 states.
www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
May 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
#USDA reported 2 new #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in Texas today, the first there since last Dec. Anyone know if these are new spillovers? it isn't easy to get that kind of info from USDA anymore.
Cumulative national total: 1065 herds in 17 states.
www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
Cumulative national total: 1065 herds in 17 states.
www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
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Hero.
A laid-off CDC expert is offering free help to Milwaukee during its lead crisis. “As far as I know, it’s still a free country, and if you want to volunteer your time to help people in need, I don’t think that’s proscribed," he said. HHS isn't so sure.
Amid the Milwaukee lead crisis, a laid-off CDC scientist volunteered his expertise. It wasn’t so simple
After his job was cut, a CDC scientist volunteered to help Milwaukee respond to the lead crisis in its public schools. For now, he's in limbo.
buff.ly
May 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Hero.
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Wastewater testing which is a key tool for tracking viruses like seasonal flu, #birdflu, & #covid may disappear this summer.
In her full interview with @thebulletin.org, @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social discusses why wastewater surveillance remains essential beyond 2020's COVID pandemic.
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In her full interview with @thebulletin.org, @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social discusses why wastewater surveillance remains essential beyond 2020's COVID pandemic.
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Will America be “flying blind” on bird flu? A key wastewater-tracking program may soon end
Wastewater disease surveillance has become central to public health officials’ ability to track the H5N1 bird flu that's now spread from wild birds, to poultry, to cattle, and, worryingly, to other ma...
thebulletin.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Wastewater testing which is a key tool for tracking viruses like seasonal flu, #birdflu, & #covid may disappear this summer.
In her full interview with @thebulletin.org, @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social discusses why wastewater surveillance remains essential beyond 2020's COVID pandemic.
Read more ⤵️
In her full interview with @thebulletin.org, @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social discusses why wastewater surveillance remains essential beyond 2020's COVID pandemic.
Read more ⤵️
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“This is not government reform. This is not efficiency. The federal government has cut lab capacity so much that they have all but stopped testing for measles in the middle of an unprecedented measles outbreak,”
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
More than a dozen states, DC sue Trump administration over ‘dismantling’ of federal health agencies | CNN
Democratic attorneys general across 19 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal hea...
www.cnn.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
“This is not government reform. This is not efficiency. The federal government has cut lab capacity so much that they have all but stopped testing for measles in the middle of an unprecedented measles outbreak,”
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
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Human wastewater contamination is so bad in Alabama homes that 1 in 3 adults in one county had hookworm. Biden funded efforts to improve sanitation there. But the effort is cancelled as "DEI".
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes, calling it 'illegal DEI'
A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for decades was stopped by an executive order.
www.nbcnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Human wastewater contamination is so bad in Alabama homes that 1 in 3 adults in one county had hookworm. Biden funded efforts to improve sanitation there. But the effort is cancelled as "DEI".
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
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This work is critical to us responding to Ebola outbreaks and strengthening medical countermeasures - “RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research”
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This work is critical to us responding to Ebola outbreaks and strengthening medical countermeasures - “RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research”
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The Trump administration is dismantling cancer research.
The National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of top researchers and clinicians tasked with guiding the direction of federally funded cancer research — has been entirely disbanded.
The National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of top researchers and clinicians tasked with guiding the direction of federally funded cancer research — has been entirely disbanded.
April 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The Trump administration is dismantling cancer research.
The National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of top researchers and clinicians tasked with guiding the direction of federally funded cancer research — has been entirely disbanded.
The National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors — a group of top researchers and clinicians tasked with guiding the direction of federally funded cancer research — has been entirely disbanded.
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Source: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Gift Article)
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Source: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
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H5N1 will make more of us sicker than Covid did. More people will die. We won’t be able to respond. There will be profound impacts on agriculture, the economy, & food security. More people will die from that.
There is a reason virologists lose sleep over avian flu.
There is a reason virologists lose sleep over avian flu.
April 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
H5N1 will make more of us sicker than Covid did. More people will die. We won’t be able to respond. There will be profound impacts on agriculture, the economy, & food security. More people will die from that.
There is a reason virologists lose sleep over avian flu.
There is a reason virologists lose sleep over avian flu.
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Indeed I’m fearful. We aren’t testing much any more. We’re firing everyone in govt who can help and stripping funding from academic & industry scientists who can fill the gaps. H5N1 is a real threat & US policy puts us all at risk. Me & colleagues Kay Russo, Kamran Khan, & Keith Poulsen discuss👇🏻
As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked, it could spiral into a possible pandemic. https://cbsn.ws/4ionCJG
As bird flu hits cattle herds in U.S., scientists say these H5N1 factors worry them most
Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible pandemic.
cbsn.ws
April 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Indeed I’m fearful. We aren’t testing much any more. We’re firing everyone in govt who can help and stripping funding from academic & industry scientists who can fill the gaps. H5N1 is a real threat & US policy puts us all at risk. Me & colleagues Kay Russo, Kamran Khan, & Keith Poulsen discuss👇🏻
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We spoke with NIOSH’s Dylan Neu, who had been leading their ventilation assessments before layoffs
Errors they found at hospitals in TX treating measles ranged from wrongly pressurized rooms to still-wrapped filters
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-scr...
Errors they found at hospitals in TX treating measles ranged from wrongly pressurized rooms to still-wrapped filters
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-scr...
April 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
We spoke with NIOSH’s Dylan Neu, who had been leading their ventilation assessments before layoffs
Errors they found at hospitals in TX treating measles ranged from wrongly pressurized rooms to still-wrapped filters
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-scr...
Errors they found at hospitals in TX treating measles ranged from wrongly pressurized rooms to still-wrapped filters
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-scr...