I post this a lot, but the ticks are numerous and belligerent this spring, so here's a Saltscapes story I wrote with expert advice to help you stay safe. Among the most important tips: If you find a tick latched on, don't kill it before removal. That just makes it barf pathogens into you.

Animal owners, advocates continue to call on Nova Scotia to ban, licence consumer fireworks By @suzannerent.bsky.social

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Nova Scotia. First reported cases in domestic birds since February 2024.

WHO will announce #influenza virus vaccine composition today Tune into our 1) information session at 10h CET, livestreamed on YouTube channel and 2) the press conference at 13:45h CET, livestreamed on social media channels - X, LinkedIn and YouTube ⬇️ www.who.int/news-room/ev...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

www.canada.ca/en/public-he... "...the clade of H5N1 avian influenza in dairy cattle in the U.S. is not the same as the clade confirmed in the domestically acquired human case in British Columbia."