A One Health Investigation into H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus Epizootics on Two Dairy Farms | medRxiv

Background: In early April 2024 we studied two Texas dairy farms which had suffered incursions of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) the previous month. Methods: We employed molecular assays, cell and egg culture, Sanger and next generation sequencing to isolate and characterize viruses from multiple farm specimens (cow nasal swab, milk specimens, fecal slurry, and a dead bird). Results: We detected H5N1 HPAIV in 64% (9/14) of milk specimens, 2.6% (1/39) of cattle nasal swab specimens, and none of 17 cattle worker nasopharyngeal swab specimens.
— Read on www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.27.24310982v1

Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition – AAIHS

Elaine Brown attempted to sue me in March 1998 when I organized an abolitionist conference at CU-Boulder, at the request of Angela Davis, as a prototype for Critical Resistance (CritResist) held at UC-Berkeley that September. “Unfinished Liberation”— named after one of Davis’s UCLA lectures— was CU’s largest, most expensive conference at the time.
— Read on www.aaihs.org/airbrushing-revolution-for-the-sake-of-abolition/

Indian Wars in Quebec – Peter McFarlane (1981)

“Land as much as language is central to native culture and to the current Quebec-Indian conflict. And here too the PQ has shown a harmful intransigence. After justly criticizing the Bourrassa regime for bulldozing through the James Bay treaty, the PQ has turned around and taken the hardest possible line on native land claims. In their white paper on sovereignty-association the government stunned the native people by stating that after the 1977 signing of the James Bay agreement into law, there were no longer any legitimate claims on Quebec territory. This despite the fact that Indian groups like the Montagnais, whose traditional tribal lands account for the north-eastern quarter of the province, have never signed a land treaty with any government, federal or provincial.”

Indian Wars in Quebec – Peter McFarlane (1981)