Mastodawn

Look, I am just a humble #CBRNE guy. So, I extended a cry for help to the SMEs with post doc degrees in microbiology and virology. Because always check with the qualified people.

Hantavirus sp has two strains; Americas (pulmonar) and European (renal). As rule, Hantavirus is transmitted rodent-to-human. The Americas strain, affecting lungs) has cases of people cohabitating with infectious people being infected after considerable time of exposure/shared environment.

#Hantavirus

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Faraiwe Apr 22

Also, disclosure, because I think is fair/due to anyone who might see it.

I am a firm believer in the basics of public health, socialized medicine.

I also spent more than a couple years dealing with mil-side #CBRNE, working along #USAMRIID and #CDC (when those meant something), going places and under circumstances most sensible people avoid.

I have had privileged access to information, given later half of that career. Not elaborating.

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#TurdReich #MAGAts #GOP #COVIDIOCY #COVID19 #USPol

Katrien M Michiels Feb 24

#cbrne equipment testing day: reminds me how much I love being the one asking the weird questions...
I often feel too sciency for the #fireservice, to field ready for the lab. CBRN-E is in that exact sweet spot.
Good to meet some other #HAZMAT #nerds from around EU!

EU Council TV News Feb 20

António #COSTA @eucopresident, President of the European Council, visits the Norwegian National Unit of #CBRNE Medicine (The CBRNE Center) and the #MEDEVAC Center on 19 February 2026 in #Oslo. https://newsroom.consilium.europa.eu/events/20260219-president-costa-visits-norway/152604-president-costa-visits-oslo-university-hospital-20260219
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Faraiwe Sep 28, 2025

@ai6yr @spocko @USelaine it's Goiânia, Brazil, 1987 all over again.

#CBRNE

faraiwe Feb 17, 2025

Someone who poses as part of the Murican "intelligentsia" had very narrow assumptions about a subject on which they are not very well versed, and that I was very involved with, to wit the safety of #CBRNE stuff. Military, but also civilian side.

They only know the domestic side transport. International escort of CBRNE sensitive stuff is often the realm of plains-clothes ( "tactical chic") Technical Escort Units and Nuclear Disablement Teams, both military entities, with expertise and authorization for lethal force.

So, when a NNSA team was rumored to be stranded, and couldn't be brought into the US (HINT HINT) they assumed it was domestic transport. Never occurred to their inflated self important mind that we provide a lot of R and N stuff to FVE allies. In fact, nobody ever had a start stockpile of nuclear stuff; WE provided everyone.

I would very (they like to use the word very) much to see how far an armored truck and their "large trucks" and "armed police escorts (visible)" would go into the sea. My bet is, about 50ft into the sand on a beach. See, large armored trucks tend to not float very well, even on salt water...

::eyes roll into another dimension::