For The First Time, H5N1 Bird Flu Has Been Documented Jumping From Pet Cat To Human www.iflscience.com/for-the-firs...

BREAKING!!!! A judge has ruled that the Elections Alberta CEO’s issuing of the separatist petition was a violation and the decision to issue that has been quashed. The push to have an illegal petition has killed itself! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

NEW: Official government documents written and saved in Google Docs are no longer covered by Ontario’s freedom of information laws, the province has decreed, as its transparency clampdown continues to roll out. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1184611...

The Senate fell one vote short of formally shutting down the war with Iran, with John Fetterman casting the decisive vote.

So in case anybody’s counting, today Donald Trump called not one, but two female reporters “stupid.” He is going to continue to do this. He’s going to start calling them far worse. Because nobody fucking stops him.

Since I posted this yesterday, the number of people exposed has already increased to 173. When are we, as a society, going to start taking viruses seriously?

If you're using any kind of FitBit device, it's time to find an alternative www.reddit.com/r/enshittifi...

Fitbit users: the Fitbitapp is getting fully sucked into the Google Vortex as of May 19, boooo It will be the Google Health app and it does nothing that I want 😑 good thing I cancelled my subscription in January support.google.com/fitbit/answe...

whatever this is, I hate it

Milan researchers tracked 248,176 adults for up to 2 years after COVID-19 infection. People who tested positive had a 13% higher risk of developing diabetes, with the strongest effect seen in women aged 41 to 60. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ontario’s ministry of health is asking seven more people to isolate in relation to a global hantavirus outbreak, though it says those individuals are considered “low-risk” contacts.

Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Toronto now at 12 cases

Try Canada.

Full link for those who don't want to venture into X www.uncommons.ca/p/heres-why-...

AI will kill us whether it's smart or stupid. www.expressnews.com/business/art...

CBC's Erin Collins: "Elections Alberta is saying [David] Parker's refusing to cooperate with their investigation, and he's refused to comply with that cease and desist order to stop using that electors list."

Fucking yikes!

Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith filed a notice of appeal Tuesday to the provincial Liberals, challenging the result of a nomination race that he lost.

AI systems used by Ontario doctors hallucinate, auditor general finds https://globalnews.ca/news/11844349/ontario-auditor-general-ai-usage/ ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

10 #Manitoba firefighters land in Minnesota to help state's wildfire fight 'You were there for us, we will be there for you,' province's natural resources minister says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Trump CDC says cruise-ship passengers can leave quarantine/isolation and finish the hantavirus incubation period at home voluntarily.

Radio New Zealand covered an infected US traveler who is a hantavirus contact case and began individual travel before the gov caught her to quarantine

ICYMI: Wait times at Ontario emergency rooms have spiked over past 5 years, study says

Best wishes for patience & safety to the people who signed up to do the followup canvassing & compliance of the Canadian census.

The wastewater results from last week are in. 2,075,028 unique reads of vertebrate infecting viruses. Lots of rodent viruses from combined sewersystems (Rocahepevirus ratti, Lucheng Rn rat coronavirus, etc). No hantavirus. We'll keep watching with @securebio.org

For people outside the science bubble: over the last 3 years, NIH researchers like me were informally encouraged to avoid working with mRNA technology in grant proposals. Pharmaceutical companies rely heavily on discoveries made with public funding first. This is the result:

Hantavirus: 12 Radboud hospital workers to quarantine due to slack safety measures. nltimes.nl/2026/05/11/h...

France is phasing out Zoom and Microsoft tools by 2027 over data-access risks tied to the US Cloud Act, which allows American firms to seize data stored anywhere. Legal scholars warn Canada’s digital future is at serious risk, but political will to act remains tepid. https://ow.ly/nM6M50YXuLC

Andes hantavirus remains in semen. h/t @CoronaHeadsUp on X "We demonstrate that the ANDV genome persists within the reproductive tract for at least 71 months." "[...] our results show that ANDV has the potential for sexual transmission."

There is no such thing as a "mildly PCR positive test".

A study suggests that many older adults who died of COVID-19 weren’t close to death before infection. In fact, 28% would likely have lived at least another 5 years if they hadn't contracted the virus. Read more: ow.ly/j4V150YXREy

🇨🇦 ONTARIO 😡😡😡

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with April 26 data - Kingston, London, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, BC, MB, NS, PEI, QC, SK, YT wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/french-womandoctors-hantavirus-symptoms-hv-hondius ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Another essential read (but I'm biased)

Important read re: hanta and respiratory protection trishgreenhalgh.substack.com/p/fb368a53-f...

I shouldn't laugh. This "mildly positive" person has a very high chance of dying. But Dr Mackay is right. When it comes to this disease, positive is positive. I suppose one can be "mildly pregnant", but the implication is that you're going to get a lot more pregnant in coming weeks.

Okay. This is today's version 2. Hopefully, the typos are corrected and additions made. I greatly appreciate the feedback - I put it out in a rush. Sorry about that. I moved some text to a sidebar to allow a little breathing room.

"Mildly" positive? Is that like being "a little bit" pregnant? www.reuters.com/business/hea...

🚨🎯 Today (May 10), @catinthehat.bsky.social posted an update on the WHO's new stance WRT the Andes Hantavirus situation: "EVERYONE from the ship will now be treated as HIGH-RISK contacts…" 7-tweet 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20535...

13 confirmed cases of legionellosis in Hamilton under investigation: public health | CBC News share.google/BTkUK0UD9Nga...

The number of American reconnaissance flights off the coast of Cuba has sharply increased Something similar was observed on the eve of American military operations in Venezuela and Iran - CNN. Follow us for the latest updates : @osintradar.bsky.social

French PM has announced one of the five citizens of his country that were evacuated from MV Hondius cruise is with hantavirus symptoms. The drip is starting, so much for a "very difficult" to transmit virus, isn't it?

BREAKING: Four Canadians connected to a hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive in British Columbia on Sunday and will enter a monitored isolation period upon arrival, provincial health officials say.

Canada has sent a flight to Tenerife, Spain to pick up four Canadian passengers who were on the MV Hondius, the site of a hantavirus outbreak. Updates here: www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

*** Ontario Variant Update | May 10 *** In Ontario, the NB.1.8.1.* "Nimbus" variant family shot to 74.7% of sequenced genomes from COVID tests while the XFG.* "Stratus" family dropped to 15.8% and the BA.3.2 "Cicada" family decreased below 10% again. 🧵1/ #Ontario #COVID #Variant #Nimbus #Cicada

Liberal MP Erskine-Smith loses nomination battle for Ontario provincial byelection nationalnewswatch.com/2026/05/09/l...

Hantavirus Ship Passenger Attended Packed Wedding After Leaving Cruise. "YouTube influencer Ruhi Cenet attended a crowded wedding in Istanbul after disembarking from the MV Hondius cruise amid a hantavirus outbreak" Source: archive.md/T3aUi