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Home carer, wife, 4 cat fur family 🐈🐈🐈🐈, was a photographer and Photoshop enthusiast. If you don't like my comments look the other way. Always keen on staying up-to-date with Viruses. #covidisnotover #maskup #longcovid #H5N1 Sydney, Australia 🦘🦘
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⚠️ BREAKING: The total number of cases in the "mystery outbreak" in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 527, according to the Africa CDC. Last week, there were 147 new cases reported, suggesting that the outbreak isn't subsiding but rather extending.

Stretched to the limit www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

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Australia on alert: World Health Organisation urges efforts to prevent bird flu strain with pandemic potential. By John Flint #Australia #BirdFlu #H5N1 @flinty01.bsky.social Source: archive.md/hM5B7

A long, dark, helpful H5N1 explainer thread.

AFD Blog `A Personal Pre-Pandemic Plan' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-pe...

New post on some preliminary – but troubling – signals about the direction H5N1 might be taking: kucharski.substack.com/p/h5n1-influ...

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Kids in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are the group most vulnerable to mpox - and yet they're not getting vaccinated. Troubling story by @joncohen.bsky.social, who just returned from a trip to the DRC. www.science.org/content/arti...

The JN.1 updated vaccine isn’t available in AU yet. Choose not to get COVID: use a physics-based variant-indifferent barrier to transmission. Wear a respirator. Don't let it ruin your holiday

It took a while - but, Final prototype 3d print: Soft medical & food grade plastic, perfect fit, only 14 g Most challenges solved in 3d scan & production Status: 100% Made in Germany, 2h manual work per person initially

PATIENT BEWARE: Nick Coatsworth, Former Australia Deputy CHO. "Nick Coatsworth, who 9 News Australia falsely labels a "Medical Mythbuster." In reality, Nick subscribed to many myths about COVID-19 he got from following contrarian quacks on Twitter, such as Vinay Prasad" Source: archive.md/zRJzW

Fire ants scare me. It's bad enough having jack jumpers here in Tasmania. I hope there's a concerted effort to stop those fire ants. michaelwest.com.au/emergency-me...

No one could have foreseen this. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...