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RT not necessarily endorsement

[314 Action @314action]

DOGE cut the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program and we got hantavirus.

DOGE slashed USAID funding and we got one of the worst Ebola outbreaks on record.

DOGE gut screwworm detection and now it’s spreading in Texas.

Fund science now.

[CP24 @CP24]

Update on Canadian cruise ship passenger who tested positive for hantavirus
https://t.co/RmSu8xzLKP

[Ian Weissman, DO @DrIanWeissman]

As Americans worry about the risks from hantavirus and Ebola, many health officials now have less power to protect the public from diseases because jurisdictions weakened their public health authority in response to criticism of COVID-era restrictions.
https://t.co/ydOPstuFHq

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

Hantavirus: What to know about Sin Nombre virus strain endemic to California https://t.co/V0MFM1H8so

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

From the Texas Tribune:

After Mexican officials confirmed case of screwworm in Nov. 2024, USDA, under Joe Biden, closed southern ports of entry to live cattle imports to prevent spread of screwworm into U.S. Move also strained supply of cattle in Texas....
USDA reversed course in Feb 2025, after Trump took office, announcing opening of ports"

[Raina MacIntyre @Globalbiosec]

Is Australia prepared for #Ebola and #hantavirus? My piece in @SatPaper https://t.co/lS0eLKMOiV

[Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschs1]

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed the symbolic 1,000 cumulative human cases mark globally since 2003.
More scary is that 10 human infections with different novel influenza viruses have occurred in the last 5 weeks.
At the personal level Hantavirus, Ebola, HPMV, MPOX,Covid don’t concern me.
BirdFlu does.
If/when it goes pandemic it will affect us all.

https://t.co/DtwDEho7pY

[Martha-JD, MBA, PCC-😷🇺🇦 @mryoung151]

Arizona- Hantavirus case confirmed in Mohave County patient died. | The source of exposure for the Kingman service area case could not be determined; local transmission cannot be ruled out,Sin Nombre hantavirus is carried primarily by deer mice https://t.co/fNx8CS8VQh

[K-in-CT 😷😷😷 @KinCONN]

#hantavirus

➡️🇺🇸 Two Texans cleared of hantavirus risk after period of isolation

- The two Texas residents being monitored for hantavirus have been ➡️ cleared after completing their 42-day observation period infection-free.

- The two Texas passengers were exposed to the isolated outbreak of the Andes strain aboard the MV Hondius.

- Monitoring was recommended for everyone aboard the ship after some passengers became sick with the virus in April.

- The Texas passengers left the ship and returned home before the outbreak was identified. ➡️ The two were evaluated in person twice daily by public health workers while isolating at home.

- They completed a 42-day observation period infection-free — the longest known period between exposure and signs of symptoms.

- ➡️ They are no longer under public health restrictions.

- In a press release from the Texas Health and Human services Chief State Epidemiologist Varun Shetty thanked the passengers and personnel.

- “I’d like to thank the passengers for their willingness to collaborate with public health throughout the monitoring period,” Shetty said. “I would also like to thank the many dedicated public health professionals who worked on this situation and work every day to keep their fellow Texans safe.”

By Alexsis Jones
https://t.co/OT7CpUqlAM

[Martha-JD, MBA, PCC-😷🇺🇦 @mryoung151]

🚢Argentina expands hantavirus probe, sending teams to trap and test rats in Mendoza https://t.co/wP4bWAOy9A

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

The world could have avoided three major outbreaks since the end of Covid-19 — mpox, hantavirus and Ebola — but has instead allowed another “preventable disaster” to play out, former government leaders, academics and global health experts have said.
https://t.co/NgwNqkIm0j

[Vox @voxdotcom]

What Ebola and hantavirus reveal about determining the source of an outbreak — and why it matters https://t.co/TrYo9rWs0V

[Protect Our Care @ProtectOurCare]

MS NOW reports on a New York Times expose, detailing RFK Jr.’s “highly unusual” and behavior as Health Secretary over the past year.

Former CDC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry: During an ebola outbreak or the hantavirus outbreak, you would expect that career scientists would be briefing the Secretary on these issues. .. These are just really troubling things for someone who “wants to make America healthy again" — that he’s not listening to his health experts.

[Richard Fontaine @RHFontaine]

Xi Jinping is in North Korea for the first time in seven years. His visit illustrates the Axis of Upheaval in action:

1. Of Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea, none has used its leverage as effectively as Kim Jong Un in recent years. Pyongyang had what Moscow wanted - troops and weapons for Ukraine - at a moment when Russia was in dire need.

2. But North Koreans don’t work on spec. Russia in return gave Pyongyang food, oil and military technology, and showered it with diplomatic attention. Putin visited the North in 2024 for the first time in 24 years. The two signed a mutual defense agreement.

3. Suddenly the Hermit Kingdom was not so isolated anymore. Long gone are the days when Beijing and Moscow at least nominally joined the U.S. in pressing the North to denuclearize. And Pyongyang has spent the past few years building up its own arsenal, including missiles, drones, and submarines.

4. For Beijing, Pyongyang was for many years like the embarrassing uncle who spoils Thanksgiving dinner: a part of the family, worthy of support, but volatile and hard to control. Now, emboldened by friendship with Russia, some economic improvement, and its own military advances, Kim has options.

5. Enter Xi Jinping. China’s only formal defense pact is with North Korea, which has long been dependent on China as an economic lifeline. Moscow and Beijing are cooperating more closely than ever, but Beijing is not about to let the North fall entirely into Russia’s orbit.

6. We will see what Beijing hands out during Xi’s visit. But it’s clear already that the internal dynamics of the Axis of Upheaval - including competition with each other - have yielded benefits for its poorest and most isolated member.

7. All this means that denuclearization, which was never a terribly realistic objective, is more remote than ever. The North has two major power defenders and Kim recently said that U.S. attacks on other countries - think Venezuela and Iran - vindicate its nuclear decision making. Pyongyang now rejects talks with Washington rather than the other way around.

8. North Korea has emerged stronger, emboldened, and more dangerous than when it was merely a China-dependent pariah. The U.S. will need to continue its deterrence and containment approach. But there is one wild card.

9. That is a possible return to provocative nuclear and missile tests. The North has traditionally used these to extract goodies from the U.S. and the international community. Is Pyongyang now sufficiently content with its economic and geopolitical trajectory to refrain from rocking the boat? 

10. Probably not over the long run. And so another round of crisis diplomacy may be in the offing in the months ahead.

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

Moi, sur le second choc chinois, dans Atlantico

(en francais)

https://t.co/wfV31iPsCM

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

LITERALLY carved in stone (granite) at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (Room Two) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

This is from President Roosevelt's January 9, 1940, greeting to the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.

👇👇👇👇

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

German Chancellor Merz: Tomorrow is June 6th, D-Day, when the Americans once ended a war in Europe

Trump: “That was not a pleasant day for you."

Merz: “This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship” (2025)

[T. Greer @Scholars_Stage]

Along with many others, I strongly endorse this paper. The *competitive* nature of Chinese industrial policy is regularly described by on-the-ground accounts and by Chinese economists themselves, but rarely makes it to the common understanding of the Chinese system in the U.S.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

“A mythomaniac is a clinical and literary term for an extreme pathological liar. It describes someone whose lies are grand, deeply embedded in their identity, and told with complete, unbenched confidence.”