A colleague of mine, an ID physician, dropped by today to say goodbye. He is leaving medicine. I asked him, half jokingly, 'you don't want to help people anymore?'. His answer was serious: 'I learned during the pandemic that people don't want to be helped.'

Many families in Cambodia are unable to cull their chickens and instead, need to use them for food. Today a six-year-old is in the ICU. #H5N1

Better language on CFR, TTD and conveying how bad it might be. Whatever works. x.com/lucasgonzalez/…

Cambodia announces 15th human H5N1 infection of the year Seven of the 15 cases from Cambodia this year have been fatal, resulting in a case-fatality rate of 46.6%. cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz… Photo: NIAID/Flickr cc

Details for #spreadsheet.

Terrifying footage, reminiscent of the LA wildfires, shows a massive blaze raging out of control in southern France's Aude region. This is France’s largest wildfire since 1949, scorching an area larger than Paris, and destroying dozens of homes.

CIDRAP Are they testing around each case? Anyone follows how countries are getting ready for an aerosol pandemic of any severity, including one with any lethality in the young, stocking respirators for vital jobs so they can work while no vaccines? #H5N1BadSoonScenario is only 1 option.

Nobody looks at #H5N1BadSoonScenario (high lethality in the young, causing deadly disruption in vital services & supplies way before vaccines are available at all), because... #discuss 🙏🏻

Note: my tick bite was in July but my “real” symptoms didn’t begin til Oct. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Latency is common! After going into heart failure, I finally googled all my symptoms & found I had 38 out of 60 Lyme symptoms! I was 🤯 furious as a dozen MDs told me it was NOT Lyme!

Bookmark FluSCIM Lucas Gonzalez's prescient words: "...it could get messy fast. Disruption faster than virus, virus faster than vaccines."

AFD Blog `Pandemic #NPIs & Fluid Dynamical Pathways of #Airborne Transmission While Waiting in a Line' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/08/pandem…

So interesting - Unfortunately, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is not the only virus that can persist after acute infection. 🦠 In this recent study, Morrison Lab found that Chikunguya virus persists in joint associated macrophages, leading to chronic disease. While this is sobering

Axing #BARDA funding for research on #mRNA vaccines is not just a problem for pandemic preparedness, it's a national security threat, experts in that area tell STAT. “We're unilaterally disarming ourselves" — and advertising that fact. statnews.com/2025/08/07/ken…

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I made a table comparing the three major schools of Buddhism (per request of Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA)) Choose your adventure, seeker

My narrow view is quite narrow. H5N1 acting on these youngsters. We need to protect the systems that keep enough people alive. As an option. You know, just in case it's ever needed. And, if it isn't, then we do other things. #H5N1BadSoonScenario