Aetiologic
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@outbreakupdates See: Otto & Edgerton, 2025: nature.com/articles/s4158… for discussion on Canada and less-than-timely submission of sequences to GISAID.
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@outbreakupdates The D1.3 genotype was acknowledged several months ago (31 May 2025). See CFIA: tinyurl.com/4hmkzdc4 . Also found there, possibly apocryphal reports from court proceedings suggesting human infections. Still no sequence data that I can find.
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BREAKING - HPAI OUTBREAK
The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza viral strain detected in BC, Canada ostrich farm is a novel reassortment (genotype D1.3).
Not previously seen in Canada, and linked to a human infection in Ohio.
Mortality in 3-6 days.
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Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. statnews.com/2025/08/05/mrn…
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@outbreakupdates RFK Jr is a nut, or worse, but this action follows directly on from Michael Rosenthal and Julie Tate's explosive reporting in the July 20th NYT: nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/…
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@NightShiftMD Last week the eminent evolutionary theorist @CT_Bergstrom used the eloquent phrase "fuckery" to describe Makary's fantastical musings on cooking classes over insulin. Here, I think Professor Bergstrom's fine use of Anglo Saxon has found yet another application.
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At this point, it would be UNETHICAL to subject pregnant women to a RPCT to prove what is already known. The scary thing is that Makary knows that.
Brian Allen@allenanalysis
Margaret Brennan just left FDA Commissioner Makary in shambles. Caught flip-flopping so hard he could’ve been a fish on the floor. He tried peddling anti-vax confusion, but Brennan wasn’t having it, grilled him so bad she ended the interview shaking her head in disbelief. Absolute clown show.
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@OhCasavant I'll let you know. This is the rumour out here in the hinterlands. Mind you, there are lots of rumours out here... about chem trails, cosmic alignments, healing energies, etc. I'll report back.
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@aetiologic Oh! That's interesting. I got my booster today, but I had an invite because I'm CEV. I've heard other people have tried but couldn't book without an invite. So you got in via walk-in?! That would be welcome news if so. Hah - might have to walk back my snark.
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1/ Have been swamped & diverted from advocacy for a bit.
But took time out to fire this off to @Josie_Osborne today.
I'm curious - are we actually RFK Jr MAHA-Lite, with some version of 'only the vulnerable', or will these cowards finally take a stand?
@bcndp @ImmunizeBC
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@OhCasavant I fully expect to be the only person there. I will admit to being a bit uncertain about real evidence of benefits, etc - I am not worried- but w/ profound ?s over the availability of a new CoV2 vaccine adapted for the fall, I think this makes sense now.
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2/ Here are the links to the references in the email above. My read is ANYONE can get a booster if they want, but boosters are especially recommended for certain people with EXTRA risk. (Everyone is at risk from COVID.)
canada.ca/en/public-heal…
#howto" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/he…
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@angie_rasmussen Court process that take 6+months are not helpful to public health. Six months ago a cull made urgent sense. Now - w/ no evidence of sustained transmission - acull seems capricious to me. 6m ago it was different story. CFIA should have appealed with urgency.
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In case you you were wondering what’s going on in Canadian medical freedom/anti-vax news, the embarrassing off-brand J6ers of the True North convoyed out to BC to prevent 400 H5N1-infected ostriches from being culled.
This got me thinking about H5N1 in ostrich hosts 🧵👇🏻
Sisu van Hellberta@sisuvanhell
The #avianflu infected ostrich farm in BC where convoyers have been camping out LOST in court. In a 136 page decision in favor of the CFIA, the judge ruled the cull can go ahead. Bubble bus convoyer Jim Kerr is now begging for support, hoping RFK Jr. or others will intervene.
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@herdyshepherd1 Doubly ironic that this is Schmidt of global ocean health game. I guess ocean acidification just ain't sexy any more.
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If I understand his numbers, you’d need 67 new nuclear energy plants by 2030 just for AI data centres in the U.S. alone
Conventional ideas about protecting the planet or environment are woefully weak and pathetic faced with this - and ‘offsetting’ is nonsensical at this scale
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The idea that we should ‘offset’ this is bonkers
They want to grow energy use on a scale that is barely imaginable
Bourbon Capital@BourbonCap
Former Google $GOOG CEO Schmidt told Congress that Al could eventually use 99% of the world's electricity AI currently uses 3% of global energy — and it's growing faster than we can build new power plants.
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@deonandan @MovatSusie Those of us North of 60 (age, not geography, not TV show) are likely to have deceased parents, and perhaps only apocryphal evidence of prior measles infection. Assuming that we have actionable data from 6 decades ago is imprudent, but imprudent defines public health these days.
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@MovatSusie If you're over a certain age and have never had measles, it is likely your immunity has waned.
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Dear friends, if you're an adult, do consider asking your doctor to test your measles titres to see if you need to get an MMR booster. Ontario is in the midst of an extensive measles outbreak. Let's keep our kids safe(r) by creating a wall of immunity among adults, not just kids.
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@deonandan I've been looking, and have not seen, any representative samples with measles antibody titres for Canada. Am I missing something or do we really not know the distribution of titres across the population? Please tell me that I missed a key paper!
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@robgillezeau Perhaps we could convince Mr Carney that it could be recognized as a right? That would be worth voting for!
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The idea that health care is a right is a central part of Canadian identity, but it's sadly not true in practice for far too many people. For kids with autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions, access to basic health services requires $50,000+ per year at a minimum.
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
In America, health care is big business. In Canada, it’s a right. My government will focus on modernizing public health care so it lives up to its promise to Canadians. That means thousands more doctors, new and renovated hospitals, and giving you access to your own health data.
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@seatsixtyone The old fashioned magnetic tickets were still around in April 2025… but we had the odd experience that tickets paid for in central Paris were not honored at Versailles station. Needed "Versailles" purchased tickets. Same face value.
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So crossing Paris by bus finally gets it’s own section on seat61, thanks to Monday’s ride on bus 91, #how-to-cross-paris-by-bus" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">seat61.com/changing-stati… - comments welcome as always.
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@TadhgHickey That's probably a typo, I think you meant "big house" ...
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I'd like to be the first to congratulate Russell Brand on his invitation to the White House.
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@DGlaucomflecken Gee.. I hear some places own hospitals via their (hopefully progressive) tax system.. crazy eh?
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I know this might sound crazy, but people who have real direct patient care experience should own and operate our healthcare system.
PHA@physicianhosp
Almost anyone can own a hospital ... except a physician.
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@YouAreLobbyLud @tomscott Tom had the singular advantage that he really trusts science. Deep in his bones.
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In the latest series of Jetlag, @tomscott wears a 3M Aura N95 whenever he's on a flight. The smart money's on Tom Scott. My money's on Tom Scott.
co2radical.com.au
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@HNimanFC That herd has not been culled. Things tied up in courts.
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A/Ostrich/BC/FAV-0003-02/2025 | 12/30/14
#H5N1 D1.3 N1 1410
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency uploaded to GISAID
a full set of #H5N1 D1.3 seqs from a
fatally infected Ostrich in
British Columbia Canada
A/Ostrich/BC/FAV-0003-02/2025 | 12/30/24
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@kasza_leslie @crwequine @FionaMattatall The worrying thing is the size of the original "signal" that had generated this response? It had to be large enough to be definitive! How many women already identified with iatrogenic infections?
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@crwequine @FionaMattatall Ah, the loveable NN meltdown.🤣🤣🤣😊😊😊
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This is obscene and awful. And is totally unacceptable practice. Not what responsible gynecologists do, folks. No how, no way. Kudos to @FionaMattatall and all the other fabulous gynecology colleagues out there.
BirdieBittern@BirdieBittern
TPH suggested to patients of Dr. Esther Park that they get tested for HIV, hep B, and hep C if they received endometrial biopsies, IUD insertions or had cervical growths removed at her clinic between Oct. 10, 2020 and Oct. 10, 2024 Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/11083578/…
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