A few pictures from r/washingtondc this evening:

Sorry Popville this wasn't directed at you! Please don't block me lol

This is an extremely gross and privileged opinion bordering on collaborationism. My neighbors in Mt. P are getting kidnapped and terrorized by fascist nazi thugs daily, my own first gen immigrant wife is at risk, and you want me to have patience?

It's good actually to protest and fight fascism hth

The Verge has really gone downhill, I'm sure this is like an editorial decision to push 'positive' use cases for the torment nexus so I'm not slagging the writers. But this is an instant unfollow

Couldn't have happened to a worse person!

Looking at 2025 overall, it's been a pretty messy year for H5N1 bird flu:

🐔 ~38M poultry affected YTD (32.8M of which are egg layers)

🐄 82 affected dairy cattle herds YTD across CA, NV, AZ, ID, MN, and MI

🦆 793 wild/bird mammal detections across every state except MT, MN, and GA

Seasonal Flu A levels declining across the US, with the majority now experiencing moderate or low levels with sporadic high levels in CA, TX, KS, GA, most centered in the Midwest (IA, WI, IL, MI, OH) and mid-Atlantic through the NE. I think reassortment remains a persistent threat:

ILI / Wastewater Anomalies (Δ = multiple regression residual):

Major 🔴 (Δ ≥ 2.5)
• Santa Clara, CA
• Orleans, LA
• Muscogee, GA
• Summit, OH
• Monmouth, NJ
• Essex, NJ
• Penobscot, ME

Moderate 🟡 (1 ≤ Δ < 2.5)
• Monterey, CA
• Ada, ID
• Grand Traverse, MI
• Isabella, MI
• Macomb, MI
• Fairfield, CT

💩 Notable H5 wastewater detections + backdates (* = new detection):

3/29
➜ Coos, NH*
➜ Newark, NJ
➜ Klamath, OR
➜ Marion, OR
➜ Jackson, MI
➜ Nicollet, MN*
➜ Blue Earth, MN

3/22
➜ Henderson, NC*
➜ Tillamook, OR

3/15
➜ Polk, OR
➜ Washington, OR

3/8
➜ Umatilla, OR
➜ Kent, MI*

3/2
➜ Mackinac, MI*

The utility here is being able to better associate specific bird species that may be more prone to causing livestock outbreaks. You can then actively map migratory observations in the development of a kind of 'early warning' system for livestock producers (something I'm thinking about!)

It would be helpful if CDC published genomic data... either way I think you have to consider other explanations at this point. Good counterexamples throughout NE in MA, CT, VT, NH.

@solidevidence.bsky.social, would it be possible for someone to do sample collections in or around that sewershed?