Wow. NEJM just released this letter that provides most extensive detail so far about dairy worker in Texas who was infected with H5N1 bird flu. Eye so RED. Worker was not wearing eye or respiratory protection.

#PublicHealthinAction : 1 dead, 9 hospitalized, total of 14 ill with tuberculous. 170 exposed. Long Beach City, California.
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New: Hospital leaders say the U.S. isn’t ready for an avian flu outbreak.

H5N1 is still considered a low risk to the public, but should it mutate and spread widely among humans, the health system may be set up to repeat Covid-era mistakes.

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“One person died as a result of a tuberculosis outbreak among residents of a single-room occupancy hotel in Long Beach” cbsnews.com/losangeles/new…

.FDA says pasteurization does appear to kill #H5N1 #birdflu in milk, and sour cream and cottage cheese too. Megan Molteni reports. statnews.com/2024/05/01/bir…

BREAKING: Out today, our 2-year STAT investigation into a Mount Sinai research study called Living Brain Project (LBP), which biopsies brain tissue from living patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) to make new disease discoveries statnews.com/2024/05/01/bra… 🧵👇/1

Chinese virologist who was first to share COVID genome sleeps on street after lab shuts nature.com/articles/d4158…

Lots of pointing by Dr. Daszak to the BMBL during today's congressional hearing as he defends lab safety in China. Impression may be left that the US biosafety guidance in BMBL is mandatory or a regulation. cdc.gov/labs/BMBL.html (Hearing ongoing here: oversight.house.gov)

Exclusive: for my latest in VANITY FAIR, I reviewed closed-door testimony that University of North Carolina coronavirologist Ralph Baric gave to Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in January. vanityfair.com/news/story/ral… /1

“Over 140 tornadoes were reported over four days” Four remarkable things about the Plains tornado outbreak washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/0…

Due to #H5N1 , the danger associated with raw milk may have gone to 'a whole new level,' Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 writes. statnews.com/2024/04/29/bir…