This week's Pandemics In BC blog post:
General: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2026/07/11/2026-07-10-general/
BC: no BC-specific post this week, see the General post
#covid19bc #covid19 #covid #measles #rsv #influenza
Lieber ein richtiges Klapprad
@lerk@social.tchncs.de
Findet #Klapprad, #Straßenbahn und #Schlafwagen gut. Interessiert an #Verkehrswende und nachhaltigem Leben. Nie ein Auto gehabt. Nie bei Twitter oder Facebook gewesen. Seit 2017 auf verschiedenen Accounts im Fediverse. Das Avatarbild zeigt eine mit einem Sonnenschirm bekleidete Person auf dem #Fahrrad. Das Headerbild zeigt Menschen auf dem Fahrrad im #Berlin der 1920er Jahre. Wer mich siezt, wird geblockt.
social.tchncs.de
77 % der Jägerʔinnen jagen #Tiere zu Tode "weil sie gerne in der freien #Natur sind", so deren dümmste aller denkbaren Ausreden.
Ich kannte mal ein älteres Ehepaar, die sind oft mitten in der Nacht in den #Wald oder auf Felder gegangen um bei Sonnenaufgang #Vögel zu beobachten. Ohne Waffe, sogar ohne Fotoapparat, nur mit dem Fernglas. Den beiden ging es wirklich um die Natur, nicht um #Follower-Zahlen.
"Schießen, töten, posten: Wie gefährlich ist der neue Jagd-Hype?"
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9hZXgvbzIzMzE3NDg
#Jagd #Tierschutz #SocialMedia #Influenza #Tierquälerei #ARD #SWR #teamRecherche
Bich Nguyen
@bich@apobangpo.space
Migrated from @bicmay@med-mastodon.com | She/her | FM physician interested in helping patients get all the health care they need and none they don't | Boosts ≠ endorsements | Opinions are mine, not of any organization I'm affiliated with Posts autodelete after 2 weeks Header: Sunlight pouring through clouds above landscape of mountains and volcanic crater Profile: Man with black hair wearing black top, left dangling earring, and bracelets looking at camera.
apobangpo.space
"The cause of death for an Air Force trainee who died last month at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio was influenza, according to Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat.
Keon Talik McDaniel, 25, died June 16, according to his obituary.
Influenza swept the air force base in June, one month after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu shots voluntary, rather than mandatory, for American troops."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vaccines/air-force-trainee-san-antonio-texas-died-flu
#PublicHealth #flu #influenza #vaccines #immunizations #USpol
datum (n=1)
@datum@zeroes.ca
Sentient anecdotal evidence, presenting in good faith. Goal is to post citations and analysis, hoping the right intel can reach the right people at the right time to help. Focusing on SARS-CoV-2 here. Other issues are also huge and pressing, but there's value in concentrating info streams. Corrections most welcome. Greatly appreciate the zeroes.ca community's caremongering and signal-to-noise ratio. No tolerance for bad online actors of any stripe. Trying to survive in unceded territory. #nobots
zeroes.ca
Bowman and colleagues have been following the disease since its emergence on dairy farms, reporting early this year on detection of the virus in retail milk supplies – at that time, 36.3% of samples tested were positive for H5N1 particles
36%! and
once a cow's infected, they produce high-viral-titer milk for a week-plus
So that raw milk, hmm? Hmm. THey found:
Bottle-feeding calves high-viral-titer milk collected from infected cows led to minimal virus detection and inflammatory signs in the calves, suggesting transmission through feeding doesn't spread enough material to establish an infection
but "doesn't spread enough" will eventually take hold in some (likely mostly immune suppressed) people, and eventually one of the many mutations or recombinations (common in influenza) will be a viral genome with human-human fitness.
Tests for transmission among cows through milk machinery or through feeding of calves, and between birds and cattle through shared indoor air, didn't show results of disease spread
isn't very reassuring in the context of
viral particle inoculations into individual cow teats, where mammary glands are located.
Results showed that the smallest dose of 10 particles resulted in productive infection but fewer clinical signs compared to higher doses, as well as shedding of milk containing high concentrations of viral particles
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260615/Just-ten-viral-particles-can-infect-cows-with-bird-flu.aspx
h/t you know who you are
#H5N1 #influenza #birdFlu #milk
Ontario Outbreak Information HAS MOVED
@onoutbreaks@mstdn.ca
This account has moved to its own dedicated instance - @outbreak
mstdn.ca
Outbreak: #Influenza A (not subtyped)
Facility: Perley Health
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Ottawa 2 West (O2W)
Location: #Ottawa #Ontario
Facility Tracking Hash: #OPHU0047
Date: 2026-02-07
Public Health Unit: Ottawa Public Health
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObOPHU
Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.
Ontario Outbreak Information HAS MOVED
@onoutbreaks@mstdn.ca
This account has moved to its own dedicated instance - @outbreak
mstdn.ca
Replying to
@onoutbreaks@mstdn.ca
Outbreak: #Influenza A (not subtyped)
Facility: Perley Health
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Ottawa 2 East (O2E)
Location: #Ottawa #Ontario
Facility Tracking Hash: #OPHU0047
Date: 2026-02-13
Public Health Unit: Ottawa Public Health
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObOPHU
Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.
Wolfgang Hagen
@docjosiahboone__dup_45560@wien.rocks
:: Internist mit Interesse an COVID-19. Kein Virologe :: Obsession: John Coltrane & Rapid Wien :: WienLiebe :: Stadtradler :: #COVID19 #COVID19at #LongCovid #Medizin #MedizinBrennt #SKRapid #WienLiebe #Fahrrad #KlimaWende
wien.rocks
Nächster Schritt der MAGA Impfgegner.
Moderna entwickelte einen neuen mRNA #Impfstoff gegen #Influenza. Nachdem sie alle Vorgaben der FDA erfüllten und ziemlich viel Geld für Entwicklung und Studien investierten, erklärte die von Trumpisten geführte FDA nun, dass sie den neuen Impfstoff nicht prüfen werden.
In der Phase 1 Studie führte der mRNA Impfstoff zu einer besseren Immunantwort und war gut verträglich.
Die Entscheidung wird natürlich dazu führen, dass die Firmen die Impfstoffforschung runterfahren. Ziel erreicht.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/fda-moderna-flu-vaccine
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