Joann J Mead

Published on disasters and emerging threats. Author, biocrime novels. Bioerror or bioterror? The evidence is in the DNA.

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

@R_H_Ebright Inspired by 2011 Gain-of-Function H5N1 passage in ferrets, in 2012 I wrote about rogue lab scientists in https://t.co/Eku5gahy4o My 3 bio-crime novels, crimes of genetic design at https://t.co/T71hWBZXjk or https://t.co/TXNdjWplQx @MacintyreRaina @SarahHMabrouk @DrRobertCGallo

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

@goodreads https://t.co/atxagcIqAP

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

I am now on #Bluesky with same handle @JoannJMead
and this is why you should join too! https://t.co/jACFZUebay

[Amesh Adalja @AmeshAA]

In this TV interview with @KatyTurNBC I discuss the value of vaccines and what it means for someone to evade that fact. https://t.co/IHp1Zv3jLI

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

RFK Jr’s nomination is the repudiation of a century of unprecedented and miraculous progress in public health.

We take it for granted because we don’t recognize how far we’ve come.

I recently wrote in @TheAtlantic about what we risk losing. Gift link 👇

https://t.co/rVXqEzE2qT

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

#H5N1 Get ready for another, more lethal pandemic pathogen.... Let the circus begin with the nihilist narcissist and pigmy elephants.
https://t.co/Mp8hOrQCuE

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

Very worrying that a healthy Canadian 15 year old, with no underlying health conditions, is in critical condition with bird flu. #H5N1
Canary in the coal mine?
https://t.co/QDIX0hPnFi

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's bird super-spreaders. #H5N1 https://t.co/o8lHZzJXMu

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

zelenskyy on live tv:
“we are not ready to give our freedom to this fucking terrorist putin”

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

@DrMicrobe Let's hope we have competent, scientific PhD, MD experts in HHS, CDC, NIH, FDA .... when highly infectious #H5N1 and lethal, air-borne, contagious mutations appear.
Or as in my 2016 bioterror novel, Underlying Crimes -Tiger Tiger. https://t.co/hFwKhLkpQf

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

@DrMicrobe Let's hope we have competent, scientific PhD, MD experts in HHS, CDC, NIH, FDA .... when highly infectious #H5N1 and lethal, air-borne, contagious mutations appear.
Or as in my 2016 bioterror novel, Underlying Crimes -Tiger Tiger. https://t.co/hFwKhLkpQf

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

https://t.co/2C52y2FP8L Rare event? or a harbinger of what is to come?
My thoughts: H5N1 is in bird migration Pacific Flyway, British Columbia and western third of US. If so, when?

[Rick Bright @RickABright]

Important to follow this case closely. Hospitalized teenager is a serious outcome. Hope Canada is fast & fully transparent w/ data & epi details.

Anxiously awaiting confirmation data. Esp on virus sequence & antiviral drug susceptibility.

#H5N1 continues to spread - prepare!

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

Holding back tears: “It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard working immigrants who make this country great, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech, for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on social security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth, for democracy, for decency, for everyone who voted again him, and guess what—it was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too, you just don’t realize it yet” @jimmykimmel @JimmyKimmelLive

[Amesh Adalja @AmeshAA]

In this piece I am quoted about multiple aspects of the ongoing avian influenza outrbreak in poultry and cattle. More proactive action is needed https://t.co/gS6cbQXdVk

[Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @KrutikaKuppalli]

There goes public health, vaccines, fluoride in our water and any ability to prepare and respond to emerging pathogens.

I can only imagine what his response to #H5N1 will be.

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

Meanwhile, while we are distracted #H5N1 is brewing in birds, cows, pigs and us!
https://t.co/dkaarHxbbI

[Joann J Mead @JoannJMead]

The women are up to something....

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

When you love something, you fight for it—and I love this country with all my heart.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Three days—your voice matters, and your vote can make a difference. https://t.co/VbrfuqVy9P

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala