My husband wrote the most wonderful post about Eddie and I wanted to share it on this site:

Grief is the price paid for love, and Eddie was loved deeply by a great many people. Our grief is acute and intensified by the wonderful individual Eddie was.

Many more dairy workers are sick with avian influenza than is being reported. ICE is surging in Yakima. There have been 522 ICE abductions in Yakima from January through July 2026, the highest reported total of any Washington city during that period.

Workers are not being told irus. They are not being tested for H5N1 for fear of ICE retaliation. They are continuing to go to work.

They are taking home raw milk that should be dumped, making cheese from it, and feeding raw milk to cats who then pass away from the virus.

It is a public health nightmare.

We need more public outreach and to make sure they have access to testing and seasonal flu vaccines.

#onehealth #h5n1

#H5N1

➡️ Nearly 95,000 chickens euthanized after Oregon bird flu outbreak

- Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a poultry flock in Oregon, and the new case pushed the state’s death toll from the virus past 1 million domestic birds.

- Bird flu was confirmed in ➡️ a Clackamas County commercial flock, according to a Nov. 4 news release from the Oregon Department of Agriculture.

- The USDA indicated 94,200 birds at an egg layer operation were euthanized.

- Since the start of the global HPAI outbreak, bird flu has also resulted in the death of 25.5 million domestic birds in California, 4.1 million in Washington and roughly 27,500 in Idaho.

- ➡️ The new detection comes as the West Coast is seeing an uptick in avian influenza cases in both birds and dairy herds.

- HPAI cases are higher in the fall and spring because wild waterfowl spread the virus as they migrate

youroregonnews.com/2026/11/05/nea…
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H5N1: WASHINGTON’S DAIRY OUTBREAK IS STILL EXPANDING.

State agriculture officials now list 43 infected dairy herds, up from 40.

Two additional herds in Yakima County.

One in Benton County.

All confirmed November 5.

Imagine thinking Medicaid (or any other insurance) would cover medically unnecessary SRY testing for every girl who wants to play K-12 sports 🤦🏻‍♀️

Eddie died of brain cancer three years ago today.

Now he lives on as “Maple” in this study 🍁

How can “woke be back” when nobody was ever doing this? LMAO.

Biden literally declared the pandemic over and gave all our public health funding to the POLICE AND PRISONS

Girls Finally Safe Now That They Have to Show Adult Their Vaginas to Play School Sports: tinyurl.com/y8883jhe

Can I just say,

‘Quite unusual’: Adults make up two-thirds of measles cases in Pennsylvania, presenting unique challenges

A large unvaccinated population plus waning herd immunity created the perfect conditions for the virus to infect adults.

Read more: bit.ly/4zyU1H8

what are they doing during boy’s sports physicals that has made nearly every man in the state of washington think that a pelvic exam is a normal part of the physical for girls

Thank you @wsferries for cancelling the Sealth’s stop at Lopez Island with no announcement today.

The orthodontist only comes to Orcas Island once a month. If the cancellation was announced, an earlier Lopez to Orcas ferry could have been caught.

Vacation time used at work

With no sailings until 3:20pm, now they will have to miss another full day of work and school because you couldn’t be bothered to communicated changes to the ferry schedule.

All so the boat could make up 20 minutes of time 🤦🏻‍♀️

Here’s what the 14 overnight USDA H5N1 dairy cattle sequences (Nov 6) show compared to last week’s release:

1. Half the new samples are outside Washington:
Of the 14 new sequences, 6 are from Washington, 6 are from Texas, and 2 are from Idaho (bringing the Fall 2026 total to 42 These three regional outbreaks are 61–67 mutations apart (~1.5 years of separate evolution)—they aren't jumping back and forth across state lines today.

2. Washington grew from 8 to 12 herds (29 cows + 2 human cases), still from one single jump:
All 12 Washington herds differ by just ~1.1 mutations on average and trace back to a single introduction into Washington cattle ~3–4 weeks before October sampling (seeded by 1 to 3 cows). Inside Washington, the main farm-to-farm branch doubled from 2 to 4 herds, and on one newly sampled farm (26G14833) different milk tanks split into two distinct sub-lineages.

3. Active farm-to-farm spread in Idaho and Texas:
In Idaho, a new sample matches an October 30 cow with zero new consensus mutations and carries two mammalian polymerase adaptations (PB2:T271A + D678G), confirming that this adapted branch is actively spreading between herds. In Texas, 6 new sequences trace a separate 5-mutation sweep.

4. Brief technical note on "rescue primers":
6 weak-RNA samples were amplified with a 32-primer rescue kit (-original-tile) built from 2024 flu sequences. Those synthetic 2024 primer ends overwrite 2026 viral bases at read tips—creating fake "backward" mutations (like NA:I5V at 95%) that drop to 0% once primer ends are trimmed off.

Bird flu outbreak in commercial poultry facility in Pierce County, WA (just south of Seattle).

This is on the other side of the mountains from the dairy farm outbreaks but mountains don’t stop birds from migrating.

I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.

(clip via @DropSiteNews)

🚨Breaking - measles cases have jumped again. We are now at 5,330 cases.

🚨Deaths have jumped too!

vaxopedia.org/2026/01/16/the…

No new human bird flu cases in Yakima County, WA but dairy herds infected has increased by 6 to 39.