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Nat Lash

@natlash.bsky.social

News Apps at ProPublica, based in D.C. Remote sensing, FOIA, other nonsense. Hit me with your climate/ag/H2O/H5N1-related thoughts & tips.

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Nat Lash@natlash.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is really important work -- the genetic diversity seen so far suggested a start of the Ebola outbreak around mid-March. But the epi turned up hundreds of Ebola-like cases going back as far as January. www.science.org/content/arti...

screenshot of text: "Until now, estimates about when the epidemic started had relied mostly on genetic evidence. Comparing the sequences of Ebola virus found in patients allows scientists to build a family tree and estimate the age of the earliest common ancestor. One such analysis, posted online in early July, suggested the earliest cases occurred in mid-March. But most of the genomes analyzed so far came from Bunia, where the disease erupted later. “I think January is plausible … because we don’t have many sequences from Mongbwalu,” says an author of the analysis, evolutionary biologist Andrew Rambaut of the University of Edinburgh."
Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ebola may have been spreading for months in the DRC before anyone recognized it. A new reconstruction suggests the outbreak was already widespread in the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu by January. It wasn’t officially declared until 15 May. Why did no-one raise the alarm? My story for @science.org 🧪

Lisa Song@lisalsong.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Drop everything and read Annie's story. I've been looking forward to this since she started reporting on it. Among other things, I've started scrutinizing the cheese at grocery stores to make sure everything I buy is made from pasteurized milk!

Annie Waldman@anniewaldman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I would later find out that the federal government *knew* his farm was doing this. The FDA discovered the farm had a “standard practice” of producing cheese from milk suspected or known to contain pathogens, according to court documents. They told it to stop. That was two years ago.

Court records: "Records collected during the inspections document that Raw Farm’s standard practice is to make raw milk cheddar cheese from raw milk that is known or suspected to contain pathogens."
Nat Lash@natlash.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Oof, after just a month of no detections, HPAI is back in the Amish duck-farming region in Northern Indiana. 5 cases reported since May 4, mostly on duck farms. Remind me how this was addressed in another densely duck-farmed region hit by constant waves of H5 2.3.4.4b? www.in.gov/boah/species...

5 cases in LaGrange presumptively positive since May 4
Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm not particularly worried there will be much onward spread of hantavirus from M/V Hondius passengers. But I am concerned that authorities are making confident statements based on VERY LIMITED data. IMO, there's too little data to say need symptoms to transmit or need close, prolonged contact.

Duaa Eldeib@deldeib.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Hannah Fresques@fresques.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So proud of data reporters @sophiechou.bsky.social and @harucoryne.bsky.social, who are Pulitzer Prize winners today. They made sense of tens of thousands of scanned, hand written forms to uncover how the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people’s cars www.propublica.org/article/prop...

ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting

The award, for uncovering predatory state towing practices, marks ProPublica’s 9th Pulitzer; two additional investigations were named finalists.

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Andrew Ba Tran@abtran.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We got our hands on internal ICE records that show how widespread use of force, like punches, kicks, takedown maneuvers, restraint holds, and less-lethal weapons such as Tasers and pepper spray in detention centers has grown wapo.st/4tdgBRA (1/)

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