DocJames
@frankjamesmd.bsky.social
Physician who teaches, does research and provides healthcare to those in greatest need.
Unfortunately 1 out of 3 CDC staff have been fired already and many leadership folks have left, many important research programs have been defunded by the idiot college students working for Elon and mr trump. We are in such deep water. [end of thread]
December 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Unfortunately 1 out of 3 CDC staff have been fired already and many leadership folks have left, many important research programs have been defunded by the idiot college students working for Elon and mr trump. We are in such deep water. [end of thread]
Below the dotted red line is where we are at now. Typically it peaks in the first week of January (logically just after everyone returns from the Christmas holidays). [thread]
December 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Below the dotted red line is where we are at now. Typically it peaks in the first week of January (logically just after everyone returns from the Christmas holidays). [thread]
It is going to be a bad FLU year and it is already a bad avian Influenza year. Reassortment is the short cut it will take when a dairy worker with seasonal flu goes to work and milks a cow with AVIAN FLU. I am moving to an island without ferry service if that happens.[thread]
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It is going to be a bad FLU year and it is already a bad avian Influenza year. Reassortment is the short cut it will take when a dairy worker with seasonal flu goes to work and milks a cow with AVIAN FLU. I am moving to an island without ferry service if that happens.[thread]
Instead of accumulating single point mutations, avian virus could also swap entire gene segments with a circulating human flu virus if a person is co-infected with both simultaneously. This could instantly create a hybrid virus (virulence of avian, transmissibility of seasonal flu) =pandemic threat.
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Instead of accumulating single point mutations, avian virus could also swap entire gene segments with a circulating human flu virus if a person is co-infected with both simultaneously. This could instantly create a hybrid virus (virulence of avian, transmissibility of seasonal flu) =pandemic threat.
It is time to start thinking about wearing masks when in enclosed public spaces. It is time to stay home if you are sick. Time to test and take care of your family especially the very young and older folks. [graphic from SCIENCE]
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It is time to start thinking about wearing masks when in enclosed public spaces. It is time to stay home if you are sick. Time to test and take care of your family especially the very young and older folks. [graphic from SCIENCE]
So buckle up folks! Get the vaccine ( 20% of the time it does help with H3N2 and almost all the time with H1N1 and type B FLU). [thread]
December 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
So buckle up folks! Get the vaccine ( 20% of the time it does help with H3N2 and almost all the time with H1N1 and type B FLU). [thread]
On the human side: FLU case are increasing and although there is an excellent fit between the vaccine and the H1N1 type A and the type B FLU this year. The H3N2 FLU type A that is spreading in the US is not a good fit with this years vaccine. The dominant strain so far this year is H3N2. [thread]
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
On the human side: FLU case are increasing and although there is an excellent fit between the vaccine and the H1N1 type A and the type B FLU this year. The H3N2 FLU type A that is spreading in the US is not a good fit with this years vaccine. The dominant strain so far this year is H3N2. [thread]
According to WDFW, there have been nearly 20 cases of bird flu detected so far this year in Washington: Thurston, Whatcom, Snohomish, Spokane, Benton, Walla Walla, Adams, Whitman, Mason and Stevens. With reports of multiple dead birds on Lake Tapps in Peirce County near Tacoma as well.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
According to WDFW, there have been nearly 20 cases of bird flu detected so far this year in Washington: Thurston, Whatcom, Snohomish, Spokane, Benton, Walla Walla, Adams, Whitman, Mason and Stevens. With reports of multiple dead birds on Lake Tapps in Peirce County near Tacoma as well.
Merry Christmas.... but first some bad news...Yes, I am more worried than ever about Avian FLU. Washington State Department of Agriculture has confirmed new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza HPAI Jefferson, San Juan, and Clark, bringing the total number of affected counties to 10. [thread]
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Merry Christmas.... but first some bad news...Yes, I am more worried than ever about Avian FLU. Washington State Department of Agriculture has confirmed new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza HPAI Jefferson, San Juan, and Clark, bringing the total number of affected counties to 10. [thread]
Flu season is coming, masking of infected people it the most effective masking.
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Flu season is coming, masking of infected people it the most effective masking.
FIFA awards the first Peace Prize for football to a man who's bone spurs were so bad he could not defend his country....
December 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
FIFA awards the first Peace Prize for football to a man who's bone spurs were so bad he could not defend his country....
So JR and friends went against settled science and all the date to change recommendations that will lead to increasing preventable child deaths today, Friday. I think the CDC as an organization lost all credibility today. Entirely do to the actions of two men JR and Trump. Please organize and vote.
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
So JR and friends went against settled science and all the date to change recommendations that will lead to increasing preventable child deaths today, Friday. I think the CDC as an organization lost all credibility today. Entirely do to the actions of two men JR and Trump. Please organize and vote.
Hepatitis B shots
Why the universal birth dose exists:
Babies are especially vulnerable—9 in 10 infants who catch it become chronically infected 12–18% of U.S. pregnant women are never tested for hepatitis B. Only 35% of women who test positive get recommended follow-up care.
Why the universal birth dose exists:
Babies are especially vulnerable—9 in 10 infants who catch it become chronically infected 12–18% of U.S. pregnant women are never tested for hepatitis B. Only 35% of women who test positive get recommended follow-up care.
December 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hepatitis B shots
Why the universal birth dose exists:
Babies are especially vulnerable—9 in 10 infants who catch it become chronically infected 12–18% of U.S. pregnant women are never tested for hepatitis B. Only 35% of women who test positive get recommended follow-up care.
Why the universal birth dose exists:
Babies are especially vulnerable—9 in 10 infants who catch it become chronically infected 12–18% of U.S. pregnant women are never tested for hepatitis B. Only 35% of women who test positive get recommended follow-up care.