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Uh-oh. CDC Director Susan Monarez "being ousted weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple administration officials familiar with the matter."

A memorial to David Rose: his photo in uniform surrounded by flowers and hand-written messages of support.

Miraculously, he didn’t hit a single CDC employee! But he did kill David Rose, the police officer who responded, who leaves behind two children and a pregnant wife.

I can't help but imagine the vast attention this case would have received if the race of the shooter and the victim were reversed.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵

An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

Tariffs like these raise prices and don't work.

But if you skipped class the day we all learned that – here's a refresher:

Reminder that if we do not detect and report illness, then the illness grows as an opportunity for snake oil sales.
Disabling science
Enabling anti-science

And on Thursday, Mr. Kennedy said on NewsNation that he planned to create a vaccine injury agency within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said the effort was a priority for him and would help bring “gold-standard science” to the federal government.

Mexico, #Measles outbreak update:

95 confirmed measles cases in Chihuahua state

Source:
Ministry of Health of Chihuahua State
chihuahua.gob.mx/index.php/pr...

@crof.bsky.social
@jusdayda.bsky.social
@health.bnonews.com
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HHS taps anti-vaccine activist to look at debunked links between autism and vaccines, sources say David Geier has repeatedly claimed that vaccines cause autism. Working alongside his father, he has published a number of studies on the subject that have since been retracted.

One more time for the people in the back.

David Geier is not a researcher. David Geier is not a Doctor ( though he has claimed to be one). David Geier has zero credentials to lead any type of study. His dad is a discredit researcher whose medical license has been suspended.

USDA is trying to see what percent of the cloned chickens survive the infection. 1-10% of the flock may survive and 0.1-5% may lay infertile eggs which can go to market.

Thank you @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Excellent article by Helen and Stat News on the same day Helen broke the story of the first confirmed reinfection in a dairy herd (Minnesota) first infected in July 2024, now confirmed reinfected on 21march2025
Unclear if it’s a new variant
USDA confirmed the reinfection but will not publicly report

BREAKING NEWS
MINNESOTA DAIRY HERD REINFECTED AVIAN FLU H5N1

Minnesota today disclosed a 21march2025 positive Dairy Cow H5 infection on same farm that was infected July 2025

Unclear if individual cows are reinfected or new cows
Unclear if B or D variant

content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNB...

It’s a USDA confirmed reinfection therefore it was up to Minnesota whether to report publicly or not as USDA will not post the herd to its page.

The milk will be genotyped to determine
D1.3 (Indiana - Ohio)
or D1.1 (Nevada - Arizona) l
or B3.13 (Minnesota)
or new variant
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BREAKING NEWS
MINNESOTA DAIRY HERD REINFECTED AVIAN FLU H5N1

Minnesota today disclosed a 21march2025 positive Dairy Cow H5 infection on same farm that was infected July 2025

Unclear if individual cows are reinfected or new cows
Unclear if B or D variant

content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNB...

Justice Department is poised to drop suit over alleged cancer-causing pollution The Justice Department is preparing to drop a landmark lawsuit alleging that emissions from a Louisiana petrochemical plant poses a danger to nearby communities. March 3, 2025 at 10:10 p.m. EST

Wow DJ's cancer was likely caused by a chemical he was exposed to?

Trump admin this week:

Avian Flu in Dairy Cows H5
California added one herd and cleared many on 20feb
-991 total dairy herds
-419 infected/quarantined
-329 cleared quarantine
-748 ever infected (~75% in 180+ days)
Nevada added two herds and is at 50% in 80+ days
Colorado was 60% in 110 days

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Especially when unthinkable jumps happen twice in a lifetime…
Then three times…
(Nevada AND Arizona D1.1 independently?)

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Timing and molecular characterisation of the transmission to cattle of H5N1 influenza A virus genotype D1.1, clade 2.3.4.4b Jonathan E. Pekar, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Thomas P. Peacock, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, UK, GU24 0NF; Department of Infectious Disease, Imper...

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virological.org/t/timing-and...

Nevada jump from Birds to Cows
(Not the Arizona Jump)
D1.1
Oct-Jan with early December 2024 likely..

Will we see similar analysis of Arizona?
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Bongino and Kash will delete anything exculpatory. Neither has a moral compass which prohibits lying.

Biden should have released the Epstein lists and any “data” regardless what those files contain.

Before you can predict the future you need to understand the past.

These new CMI charts encapsulate the difficulty projecting death rates based on recent data.

3A illustrates a worldview where there's been no improvement in mortality since 2011.

In 3B, mortality is improving by 0.5% per annum.

We need to start testing for H7 in US wastewater… sooner rather than later…
@wastewaterscan.bsky.social

Australia: Victoria Reports 4th Outbreak of HPAI H7N8 Outbreaks of H7 avian flu in 2024 #18,338 On February 8th - just 5 days after Australia declared their 2024 multi-state outbreak of avian ...

Mike Coston: afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/02/aust...

Good news from Wyoming on H5N1 case that had been hospitalized in neighboring Colorado:

- bird flu case now discharged from hospital
- patient and her flock both infected by D1.1

tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...

First photo released for this years scariest horror film

Graduate student admissions paused and cut back as universities react to Trump orders on research In response to Trump science policies, universities are accepting fewer graduate students than normal and freezing positions, STAT has learned.

Cuts to research funding and the anti-science tenor of government policies are already prompting universities to cut back on post-graduate admissions. www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t...

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors.

www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

FDA’s Food Safety Chief Resigns The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.

SO MUCH FOR HEALTHY FOOD.

The food division regulates some additives, like artificial colorings and dyes. It also plays a role in investigating outbreaks of food borne illness.The F.D.A. also funds and participates in inspections of food and infant formula.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

How did seasonal migration by birds in Colorado, Nevada and California affect the local dairy industry?
Birds = lines
Dairy = dots
Red is Colorado
Green is California
Can you spot any alignment of any kind
.............between dots and lines

Iowa-Ohio-Pennsylvania are in Drought