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#H5N1isAirborne - it will be a miracle if the USDA and CDC don't 1918 us. Don't forget, the first wave was mild. Until it wasn't. #PZC.
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Nov 20 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Zombie Deers. Chronic Wasting Disease. Misfolded PRIONS in the brain - like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

✅ In 35 states.
✅ Incredibly stable in the environment.
✅ Highly contagious.

They are not sure how it's transmitted.

It's airborne. Can Rudolph infect Santa?
/1 Normally, I do long threads, but busy, today.

So, here is the source for the basics on CWD:

web.archive.org/web/2024111813…

Here's the study showing prions in saliva, which means it will be throughout the LRT and URT.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

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Nov 18 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Fascinating educational article about vaccines and the immune system.

And this was an interesting bit -
Bacterial and viral infections predispose to other infections.

Get the flu? You are at greater risk for pneumococcal pneumonia.
/1 Bacterial and viral infections, on the other hand, often predispose children and adults to severe, invasive infections with other pathogens. For example, patients with pneumococcal pneumonia are more likely to have had a recent influenza infection than matched controls.62 Similarly, varicella infection increases susceptibility to group A-hemolytic streptococcal infections such as necrotizing fasciitis, toxic shock syndrome, and bacteremia.63 Those 👇 post influenza infection effects look familiar.

Where have I seen those types of symptoms before?

COV_D. Which we are getting every year, unlike the flu which is every 5-6 years.

Anywho.....

wellesu.com/10.1086/313772The theoretical bases for susceptibility to bacterial pneumonia following influenza infection are plentiful and include decreases in the function of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, macrophages, lymphocytes, and monocytes; increases in the adherence of bacteria to the respiratory epithelium; and decreased mucociliary clearance [14–19]. In studies of pneumococcal pneumonia in mice and squirrel monkeys, greater severity of disease and mortality resulted from infections due to pneumococcus and influenza virus together than from infections of either organism alone [20–21]. These animal studies sup...
Nov 16 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
I have my head so far up the governmental cow's butt on this one, I think I am uniquely qualified to answer on the difference between Biden and Trump on H5N1.

Ready for a🧵? Biden's USDA is still denying airborne, and is still not telling the Spanish-speaking dairy workers that it is airborne. Or to wear an N95.

Biden's CDC is running Spanish ads on the radio and Facebook. Offering testing. Workers still not trusting the CDC.
Nov 15 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
You go to the doctor to get better, not sicker.

There is a group called the HICPAC that tells the CDC what they should do regarding whether or not the guy with bright pink eyes in the bed next to you is wearing an N95 or not.

Whether your doctor comes back from Bermuda with Covid - and either wears an N95 when he sees you or not.

Whether the hospital gives you attitude about your N95 - or joins you in wearing an N95.

They are going to vote today to say that Surgical Masks are Respiratory Protective Equipment - which is a lie. Per NIOSH/ OSHA.
Nov 14 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
The Canada BC teenager is in a hospital that barely uses surgical masks, under Bonnie Henry who screwed up SARS1, then C0V1D.

She thinks aerosols only come in cans.

⚠️ Trigger ⚠️

I am going to lay out the worst case for you. Going to get dark. First, the subclade, or variant, that this poor kid has is D1.1.

It is not the dairy cow subclade - that is B3.13.

Good breakdown of what a clade is here:
cdc.gov/flu/about/viru…

D1 is lighting up the Pacific flyway.

33 outbreaks in 2.5 weeks.

x.com/0bFuSc8/status… Pacific flyway is basicallywedt of the western tip of Texas, Wyoming etc.
Nov 13 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Numerous people are pointing out that C0V1D brings with it "pink eye" - conjunctivitis.

It also brings with it some interesting comparisons to H5N1.

Some thoughts on both. If you are trying to minimize your exposure to airborne diseases, you will want to read this.

🧵 Mystery thread star. Next tweet for their name. It was Dr Li Wenliang, an opthalmologist, who first publicly warned us all, may he rest in peace.

He was seeing ophthalmological problems, and that led him to alert us all.

bbc.com/news/world-asi…Picture of Dr Li in a hospital with Covid.
Nov 12 • 31 tweets • 11 min read
So, while I was reading up for the below thread, I came up across an interesting bit about H5N1 and eyes.

How ARE those 👇 eyes getting infected? Rubbing their eyes with dirty, dirty hands?

Thread. Dairy worker with bird flu never developed respiratory symptoms, only pinkeye The authors of a new report detailing the man's case suspect that he was infected by rubbing his eyes with a contaminated hand. The CDC just did a serologically study that calls into question those dirty, dirty hands - if you even only half-carefully read it.

3 of the 8 showing antibodies had used eye protection. A little difficult to stick your fingers in your eyes with eye protection on. Among 115 persons, eight (7%; 95% CI = 3.6%–13.1%) had serologic evidence of recent infection with A(H5) virus; all reported milking cows or cleaning the milking parlor. Among persons with serologic evidence of infection, four recalled being ill around the time cows were ill; symptoms began before or within a few days of A(H5) virus detections among cows.
Cleaning the milking parlor was the only task significantly associated with a positive test result (p<0.001). None of the workers with serologic evidence of infection used respiratory protection; three used recommended eye protection. Among the eight workers with evidence of infection, only one reported close contact with cows known to be infected,§§§§ compared with 68 (64%) workers with negative test results. However, all worked on farms with herds that were reported to public health officials as being HPAI A(H5)–infected.
Nov 11 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
1918. You recognize that year. The year of the Spanish Flu Pandemic.

1914. Is the number of citations that the study that claims H5N1 WILL TURN INTO A PANDEMIC - when it mutates to prefer the receptors in our upper airways.

Debunk 🧵. Here is an example of this misinformation that has been all over your news.

"infecting cells in humans’ noses and throats, which they would need to do to spread easily from human to human."

news.wisc.edu/update-from-uw…For the virus to transmit more easily between humans, Friedrich explains it would need to mutate to be able to better attach to mammalian cells. Flu viruses use molecules called receptors to latch onto cells and infect them. The version of the receptor in humans’ upper airways is different from those in birds. That prevents bird flu viruses from infecting cells in humans’ noses and throats, which they would need to do to spread easily from human to human.
Update from UW–Madison experts on bird flu spread
Nov 8 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
As a Democrat, let me say this clearly:

#FuckMerrickGarland for not going after Trump until it was too late.

And fuck @JoeBiden
for appointing him.

Biden's presidency will go down as a flaming pile of GARBAGE after Trump reverses it all.

politico.com/news/magazine/… Really, really, really f*** Biden.

Because he sure screwed us.

It's not often I give thanks to God for good old COVID Karma, but knowing COVID also messed up Biden, and destroyed his second presidency?

It warms the cockles of my heart.

H/t
Still, multiple aides said, Biden is generally not inclined to see his Justice Department investigate Trump. One of the reasons he has given aides is that he believes investigations would alienate the more than 73 million Americans who voted for Trump, the people familiar with the discussions said. Some Democrats, however, have said Biden should be prioritizing the concerns of his supporters, not those of his detractors. The delicate balance of answering to his own supporters and uniting the country is in part why Biden recognizes that his nominee for attorney general is "going to be...
Nov 6 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
America just voted for a whole bunch of non-empathic choices.

Voted for TFG.

Why?

COVID could be part of the answer.

You see, the anterior insular cortex contains our empathy.

. mountsinai.org/about/newsroom…Image "The insula and anterior cingulate cortex are often coactive during functional neuroimaging tasks of emotion and empathy."
Nov 5 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Influenza D. Ever hear of it?

You've heard of Influenza B being wiped out by masking, etc used for C0V1D protections.

You've heard of #H5N1, bird flu, which is Influenza A

Influenza D Virus ( IDV) - a thread on airborne flu. Because it is airborne. H5N1-infected cows are still being piled on the side of the road, though most producers keep their dead piles off the road and hidden from public view. This was outside Vaca Linda dairy in Hanford, California, yesterday and I did confirm with the producer that his herd was IVD IS NOT H5N1!

But it has lessons for us. The bodies of cattle are lining the roads in dusty California dairy communities, killed off by H5N1, and an obstinate USDA who says that it is NOT airborne.



October 3, 2024: tinalexander.github.io/notes/2024/10We know that it is not respiratory. We do know that it is associated with milk. We believe that milking equipment, and other environmental surfaces or milking practices are implicated, but it is challenging to get the definitive answer that we want, even as we continue to explore that we do know the best way to address that. And that is to make sure that folks understand the risk to their herd, and are able to implement biosecurity, in order to mitigate the risk of the spread.
Nov 2 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Chicken Soup for C0vid? Think it's ridiculous?

🧵. Chicken soup for Covid. Not for the soul because the CDC is sucking the essence of that with their FUCKING policies It's from this October 29, 2025 story on Fox News, about the alarm that the CDC and parents are expressing over the rise of respiratory diseases in preschool age children.

PRESCHOOL AGE CHILDREN.

foxrgv.tv/unprecedented-…Unprecedented Rise in Respiratory Illnesses among Children: The CDC Raises Alarm
Oct 31 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
An interesting way to get stunning dry rub on (off) transfer of any design onto your boring white N95.

As always fit test after.

Need a laser jet printer.
These types of label sheets.

a.co/d/8kDUKMJ

How-to:
youtu.be/TWmUo5fkSt4?si… This would be excellent on an N95.

Do you think Bonnie Henry would like this, @amandalhu ? Wash hand logo.
Oct 29 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#EBVis airborne update.

EBV found in air sampling directly from the lungs.

webthesis.biblio.polito.it/17636/46.8% observed using nasal swabs; Carpagnano et al. [37], on the contrary, we were able to detect Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Citomegalovirus (CMV) DNA in the EBC with real-time PCR assay, two viruses which are indicative of lung cancer, if are present in the respiratory tract; the results obtained with EBC analysis have comparable sensitivity and specificity of the results obtained with the bronchial brushing fluid samples analysed with the same essay; with the EBC analysis, it was also possible to evaluate the presence of HPV DNA in the respiratory tract and the results were perfectly ov... Found in air sampling from airplanes - despite the HEPAs.

Huge study from THE Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

With a total of 4 downloads.

You are now an elite member of a very, very exclusive Air orne Knowledge Club.

dataverse.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset.xhtml?…As shown in Figure 4.1-1, samples collected aboard Flight 2N yielded no detectable viruses above the lower threshold (375 virion copies). However, samples from flight 2-R-N demonstrated low and persistent, but barely detectable levels of VZV and EBV (Figure 4.1-2). Coronavirus was also detected, but the levels were below the reliable range of detection. For flights 3-L and 3R-L, there were scarce levels of VZV, most of which was below the reliable limit. Sample 3R-L-9 was the only sample from these two flights having a detectable level of EBV (Figure 4.1-4). Coronavirus was not found in...
Jet Propulsion Lab page..
Oct 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Getting closer to 1918, folks.

Scientists isolated #H5N1 from the eyes of a dairy worker, and it efficiently infected alveolar epithelial cells.

Those alveoli cells are deep in your lungs, and are the primary location where the smallest aerosols end up being inhaled to.

It infected LESS EFFICIENTLY in corneal epithelial cells. The eyeballs.

A/Texas/37/2024 (huTX37-H5N1) is the technical name.

Did you know ferrets are a great respiratory model for us humans?
Oct 28 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
Rest for 6-8 weeks after getting C0VID to help yourself avoid LongCovid.

I wanted better resources on this, so went digging. This is not a new idea.

Mono comes from Ebstein Barr Virus (and other).

There is a long history of doctors recommending rest for 6-8 weeks to avoid relapse.

C0vid infects even more of the body than EBV. ✅

uclahealth.org/news/article/i…

mayoclinic.org/diseases-condi… Refrain from vigorous activities: Because mono can affect the entire lymph system, including the spleen (located under your left lower rib cage), avoid vigorous activities such as football, soccer or running. Do not play contact sports until at least 6-8 weeks after diagnosis or onset of symptoms. You can do mild exercises such as walking or swimming, as long as the activity doesn't increase fatigue.
Wait to return to sports and some other activities Most signs and symptoms of mononucleosis ease within a few weeks, but it may be two to three months before you feel completely normal. The more rest you get, the sooner you should recover. Returning to your usual schedule too soon can increase the risk of a relapse.
Oct 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"Mycoplasma pneumoniae is spreading like wildfire in the neonatal population"

In hospitals.

Guess what's airborne and carried asymptomatically by adults AND children?

/1 Mycoplasma pneumoniae is VERY WELL KNOWN to be airborne.

Yet the CDC has never recommended universal masking in children's hospitals.

Want to know why?

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Oct 27 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
It gets worse with H5N1.

For a number of reasons, besides the incompetence and mild venality of the USDA leadership ( Vilsack and Deeble).

Starting with....

🧵 Think the already infected cows will have permanent immunity? We can hope for that, but....

Influenza A is "notorious for high vari­ability and rapid evolutionary rates which allows for virus escape from resistant indi­viduals with time. "

bioone.org/journals/water…Image
Oct 26 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
2019. Wuhan, China. Today, so much anger at the Chinese government.

2024. Everywhere, USA. We are one unlucky infection away from 1918.

And no one has any idea.

After this thread, you WILL know that we are just living on a hope and a prayer.
/+ Don't forget that the USDA has been saying that "biosecurity" will contain this virus.

Since at least June 10, 2024. I am tired of calling this out, but they have been saying fomite based protocol will stop this outbreak.

Clearly, they are full of it. In addition to testing, biosecurity is the key to containing this virus, and ultimately ensuring that it is eradicated so that producers do not have to deal with this virus in dairy cattle permanently. Good biosecurity – including cleaning and disinfection of vehicle and equipment – is critical to minimizing the risk of disease spread. USDA works closely with state animal health official, producers, and industry organizations to provide guidance and resources for cleaning and disinfection not only on affected farms but for all livestock producers as a part of practicing good biosecurity. AP...
Question [00:51:52] Given the CDC’s vaccination program, I’m wondering if this means you think it’s no longer realistic to expect that the outbreak will be contained this year? Eric Deeble, USDA [00:52:12] Just on the animal side and all that Dr. Nirav speak to the human side, there’s a lot about this disease that makes us feel as if we can arrest its progress. And we’ve actually seen some success demonstrated to date. With this disease, it does not appear to move by respiratory transmission. We know that there are high viral loads in milk, and we’ve identified through close, collabora...
Oct 25 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Confession time!

I am physically kind of muscular, but was hobbled by plantar fasciitis, so was up to about 255 muscular and unmuscular pounds.

So, I did my usual OCD research on Ozempic.

/1 At least that's what celebrities call it.

Semaglutide Peptide for those who don't want to spend a thousand bucks a month on it.

It's been 3 weeks, and it has really reset my relationship with food.

And I am down about 10 pounds.

I am losing weight pretty quickly as
Oct 24 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
There clearly is a gaping hole in #H5N1 shipping process, @Alexander_Tin - question for you at the end.

California's outbreak started because the cows were shipped 14+ hours to Idaho.



/1 latimes.com/environment/st…Image Offloaded so as to feed and water them as there is a 28 hour rule.

fbfs.com/learning-cente…