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Dr Richard Hirschson

@richardhirschson.bsky.social
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Physician, Intensive Care, pandemics, economics, libertarian, gambler. No financial/medical advice here. #H5N1 #BirdFlu #MPOX #Pandemics

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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
⚠️BREAKING New reassortant H5N1 Bird Flu virus in Cambodia kills 7, sickens 11, 1 critical on life support. 7 cases in June alone. Generic sub-typing needed(E627K, D701) critical. 83 cases of Bird Flu in Cambodia since 2003,60% mortality,increasing numbers & mortality in 2025 cause for concern.
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Sarah of Cleveland @sb68a.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"We need to access the vaccine that the federal government has already approved." Hickman pointed squarely at the meat bird industry’s lobbying efforts against an avian flu vaccine for the nationwide outbreak. #h5n1 #eggs #Arizona #rfkjr #birdflu
azcentral.com
Bird flu outbreak kills 95% of Hickman's Arizona chickens, closes West Valley farms
The Arizona company will not be able to meet 100% of customer demand and expects to cut hundreds of jobs, company leader Glenn Hickman said.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
If you are watching #FDA and how it plans to handle #Covid vaccines going forward, you should know about this political appointee in the commissioner's office. www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/t...
statnews.com
Inside the rise of Tracy Beth Høeg, the Covid contrarian shaping FDA vaccine policy
Høeg has been skeptical of the safety and value of some vaccines and mandates, raising questions about her approach at the FDA.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
⚠️BREAKING 🧵 on #Covid #LongCovid Global Life Expectancy Takes Hit in COVID:WHO Issues Urgent Health Warning Global life expectancy-dropped 1.8 yrs 2019-2021,largest drop ever COVID aged many of us decades, now being recognised as greatest cardiac risk factor EVER. pragativadi.com/global-life-ex…
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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Matching new #H5N1 B3.13 w/ PB2 E627K PB2 or NP based A/dairy cow/USA/012089-001/2025 A/dairy cow/USA/012089-002/2025 A/dairy cow/USA/012089-003/2025 A/dairy cow/USA/012089-004/2025 A/dairy cow/USA/012089-005/2025 A/dairy cow/USA/012187-004/2025 A/dairy cow/USA/012187-005/2025
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
When stocks crash Treasuries usually rally. Not this time. Are Treasuries the new Junk Bonds?
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Debt as an Asset class has been rescinded. The FED will buy and retire long term debt while simultaneously cutting short term rates. What will the Dollar be worth afterwards?
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Measles cases are far higher than reported. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
CDC says measles cases are most likely underreported as outbreak swells in Texas
The leader of the CDC’s measles team said the agency was “scraping” to find resources to address an outbreak in the Southwest.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
⚠️BREAKING #HPV INCREASES CARDIAC RISK BY 40%. Meta analysis of 250000 patients reported @ACCinTouch . Thought to be due to chronic inflammation, similar to #COVID_19 . A vaccine for cardiac disease? eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
#H5N1 is greatest PANDEMIC threat to Britain, says health watchdog The ‘relatively small’ number of infections detected in Britain so far is the ‘tip of a potential iceberg’. Warning comes as the virus was detected in a sheep in Yorkshire (first time ever). telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Not good for a country that declared Measles eradicated in 1998.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
⚠️BREAKING The Measles outbreak in Canada 🇨🇦 is expanding, and is worse than the US 🇺🇸. A further 120 cases were added this week alone. Measles remains a disease of the unvaccinated. 👇👇 cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
⚠️BREAKING H5N1 BirdFlu is decimating bird colonies in Antarctica. www.newscientist.com/article/2471...
newscientist.com
H5N1 flu is now killing birds on the continent of Antarctica
A highly pathogenic strain of bird flu is spreading south along the Antarctic Peninsula and could devastate populations of penguins and other seabirds
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
⚠️BREAKING AUSTRALIA’S TOP DOCTORS ARE RESIGNING FROM PUBLIC SERVICE EN MASSE. abc.net.au/news/2025-03-1… We are watching the Australian public healthcare system buckle under the weight of Administrative RED TAPE and BUREAUCRACY.
abc.net.au
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What a magnificent allocation of healthcare resources! No wonder we pay more,and get less? Never before have the regulated known so much more about a topic than the regulators. The system will continue in current form until the price of the inefficiencies causes it to collapse under its own weight.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
END OF DIGITAL PROSTATE EXAMINATION. Future of healthcare will need few Doctors,even FEWER Surgeons,and NO reporting Radiologists, Pathologists,Dermatologists. The diseases we don’t predict with genetic testing at birth,will be diagnosed before clinically apparent. New age of preventative medicine.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Vaccines are like safety belts. I’m all for personal liberties, and I don’t like being told what to do, but I do need to wear a safety belt where I live. #VaccinesWork
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Could a #BigMac be healthier for you than a ribeye steak? YES! #Diet #Paleo #Keto x.com/richardhirsc...
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
GLP1’s make us live longer, but will we really want to? x.com/richardhirsc...
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
CONCLAVE WINS OSCAR FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY. Could this be a life-imitating-art coincidence? Prayers with Pope Francis. 🙏🙏 apnews.com/article/pope-v…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
WHEN YOUR HEART STOPS. This is what Ventricular Fibrillation looks like. #VFArrest #heartattack
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Reported in @NEJM . The END of nasal polyps,nasal congestion,systemic steroids use, need for nasal-polyp surgery. Tezepelumab is a monoclonal ab that blocks TSLP (pro-inflam cytokine). Monthly injections work in bad asthma. Now they work in chronic rhino-sinusitis also. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
An H5N1 Timeline from @kkjetelina.bsky.social that I find helpful to gauge when we could be in pandemic mode. It'll be serious when there's human to human transmission. But, how will we know if people are not getting tested?
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Gene Hackman death IS suspicious. FAULTY PACEMAKER vs delayed discovery from FAULTY COMMUNICATION? Hackmans PPM knew when he died,last recorded event 17/1. 9 days before found. PPM’s communicate all events to treating cardiologist/pacemaker company. If PPM was functional,why was no one listening?
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
BASICS OF MEASLES ✴️3 C's (cough,coryza,conjunctivitis) ✴️Koplik’s spots ✴️Fever ✴️Rash face➡️body. ✴️Pneumonia,Encephalitis ✴️R0 18+.MOST INFECTIOUS VIRUS ✴️Mortality 10 times COVID. ✴️Vaccine effective.Threshold for herd immunity 92%👇 I’ve treated LOTS of measles in Africa,get Vax x.com/richardhirschs…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
TEXAS MEASLES UPDATE. 58 cases,13 hospitalised,4 vaccinated. 300+ cases expected. Typical rash on body and in mouth (Koplik spots)👇 We will see 1000’s of cases now that vaccination rates have dropped below 92% threshold. 90% of unvacc will get infected when exposed to a case. x.com/richardhirschs…
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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Another #H5N1 Dairy Herd in Nevada (Likely Churchill County w/ PB2 D701N)
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
⚠️BREAKING WORST SEASONAL INFLUENZA SEASON ON RECORD IN THE US 🇺🇸 HAS PASSED ITS PEAK. ✴️ILI presentations,Admissions,Lab +’s trending⬇️ ✴️18 paed deaths this week,total of 86 this season. ✴️Terrible Flu season: 33 million illnesses, 430,000 hospitalizations, 19,000 deaths. cdc.gov/fluview/survei…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
⚠️BREAKING NEW CORONAVIRUS DISCOVERED IN BATS THAT IS ABLE TO INFECT HUMAN CELLS. HKU5-CoV-2 At present a zoonotic spillover risk, with pandemic potential. There are no documented human infections to date. cell.com/cell/abstract/…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
⚠️BREAKING Ohio reports state’s first human case of H5N1 BirdFlu. Avian flu explodes in Ohio birds/cattle👇 farmprogress.com/animal-health/…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
⚠️BREAKING H5N1 BirdFlu PB2 D701N mutation in the D1.1 virus is a very big deal. First human case reported in Nevada. Dominant strain in Nevada cattle and birds. Wild bird flyways will spread this mammalian adapted virus worldwide. Full USDA report below. www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
⚠️BREAKING H5N1 BIRDFLU WILL GO GLOBAL. PB2 D701N mutation in D1.1 virus in Nevada is a game changer. Mammalian adaption,more rapid spread in Nevada than B3.13 in California. Birds will carry D1.1 (D701N) worldwide ➡️ multiple mammalian pandemics. This is no longer just a US 🇺🇸 cattle problem.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
⚠️BREAKING Could this indicate that US dairy herds are now being infected by a second strain of H5N1 BirdFlu that is travelling down the Flyways (D1.1)? This will be a prelude to worldwide cattle infections with multiple clades. x.com/richardhirschs…
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
MICROPLASTICS are found in atheromatous plaques and in human testicles. There is data suggesting they are a major cause of MALE INFERTILITY, HEART ATTACKS, STROKES. x.com/richardhirschs… x.com/richardhirschs���
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Reported in @NEJM MICROPLASTICS in atheromatous plaques more than double your risk of HEART ATTACK/STROKE/DEATH. MICROPLASTICS were present in 58% of carotid plaques looked at. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
⚠️BREAKING Guillain-Barré outbreak in Pune. 73 cases, 14 patients on ventilator support, campylobacter likely cause. GBS is a rare,nasty autoimmune disease,usually caused by previous infection or vaccination,and can stop you WALKING and BREATHING in a few days. indianexpress.com/article/health…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
⚠️BREAKING MARBURG OUTBREAK IN TANZANIA UPDATE : ✴️2 DEAD, 15 suspected cases, 281 contacts in isolation (includes 64 HCW’s). ✴️191 community workers have visited 10893 households. ✴️Rapidly evolving situation.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
H5N1, my friend, is blowin' in the wind BirdFlu is blowin' in the wind. We’ve NEVER had a virus PANDEMIC in BIRDS, >50 MAMMAL sp, and in the HUMAN FOOD CHAIN. 90% of water fowl species are infected, domestic birds also.That is a ton of infected bird poop. H5N1 IS BLOWING IN THE WIND.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
HMPV is a COMMON,usually MILD,URTI virus. It’s a mini RSV. If u worried about HMPV then u haven’t worked on wards for long. Cases stabilising in UK/US at similar levels as last yr. Absent any new mutation I’m not worried. Lay press continues to worry public. dailystar.co.uk/news/world-new…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Australia’s primary healthcare system is increasingly becoming UNAVAILABLE to Australians. Bulk Billing rates by GP’s are CRASHING. Specialists are WORSE. ED’s are clogged with patients with primary healthcare problems. Many are losing out on Preventative Medicine. abc.net.au/news/2024-02-2…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
⚠️BREAKING NASAL DELIVERY VACCINES are the future for airborne viruses. It is how nature intended for our immune systems to work best. Excellent data in mice and ferrets with nasal vaccines against Pandemic BirdFlu. 👇👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
HPV is an important cause of throat cancer in males (for obvious reasons). Vaccination prevents this also.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Don’t be too scared of DEATH that u forget to live LIFE. My grandmother lived to be 101 coz she was only marginally more scared of DEATH than she was of LIFE. 🧐🧐
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
MPOX, Marburg, Ebola,HMPV don’t worry me much personally. I can ⬇️infection risks for me, family, community. Novel BirdFlu virus worries me A LOT (H5,H1,H7,others). H5N1 heading our way. Humanity shouldn’t underestimate the Influenza virus. If it does go PANDEMIC then we will ALL be affected.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The E190D mutation is a big deal. So is E627K (Texan case). H5N1 is mutating to become a human PANDEMIC.
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Infectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
reuters.com
US to build new stockpile of bird flu vaccine for poultry
The U.S. will rebuild its stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry matched to the current strain of the virus circulating among commercial flocks and wild birds, the Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
What to Know About Cat Food Recall After Pet Dies of Bird Flu in Oregon gizmodo.com/what-to-know...
gizmodo.com
What to Know About Cat Food Recall After Pet Dies of Bird Flu in Oregon
The cat death appears to be the first case of H5N1 in the U.S. traced to raw pet food.
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
GLP1 facilitated INTERMITTENT FASTING. Data in yeast,monkey,humans-CALORIE RESTRICTION makes us LIVE longer/better. WELLGEVITY⬆️ GLP1 drugs good for u below the neck, but make some grumpy. GLP1 injection once every 4-6 wk’s likely enough for beneficial effects in non diabetics. x.com/richardhirsc...
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Dr Richard Hirschson @richardhirschson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Could mystery disease in DRC be caused by more than just Malaria? We know it is a respiratory illness (flu like symptoms, airborne spread),and patients die of respiratory failure. Malaria does not spread this way, does not kill this way. 28% of patients are FluA POSITIVE. What do we not know?🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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