Sunday, May 17, 2026

Cambodia reports 4th human case of bird flu in 2026, worries about more to come

 
Screengrab:  Cambodianess, 4/22/2026
Cambodia has confirmed a fourth human case of H5N1 bird flu this year, health authorities said on April 22, intensifying concerns over a fast-evolving virus that is spreading through poultry and increasingly spilling over into humans.  [emphasis added]
The latest patient, a 66-year-old woman from Svay Rieng province, tested positive for the virus on April 21 and is now in isolation receiving intensive medical care, according to a Ministry of Health press release. The case marks the newest development in what officials and researchers are warning is a worrying resurgence of avian influenza in the country.

Other bird flu posts:
May 16-20

May 11-15

May 6-10

May 1-5:

April 26-30:

April 21-25:
California bird flu news:  It's everywhere, it's everywhere!  (4/23)

April 16-20
 
April 11-15:

April 6-10:  
Even the 1% have to deal with bird flu  (The Hamptons Long Island edition).  (4/9)

April 1-5
Lancaster County Pennsylvania reports yet another case of bird flu. (4/1

March 26-31:

March 21-25:

March 16-20:

March 11-15, 2025

March 6-10, 2026.  

March 1-5, 2026

February 20-28,2026
SHOCKER!!  Dead birds found in Ohio gated community.  Bird flu suspected.  (2/21)

February 10-19, 2026
February 1-9, 2026

January 21-31, 2026

January 11-20, 2026
New York tells resident don't touch those dead birds.  (1/17)

January 1-10, 2026
Bird flu strain of avian influenza:  "The picture has grown darker and stranger than most would have imagined".  (1/8)
Bird flu reported on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. (1/8)Dozens of vultures die of bird flu in North Carolina.  (1/8)

December 16-31, 2025

December 1-15, 2025

November 15-30, 2025

November 1-15, 2025

October 2025

September 2025

April-August 2025

Colorado GOP news: Meet the newly resigned chair of the Weld County Republican Party

 
Surprisingly, the Colorado GOP actually accepted his resignation.

Mugshot and headlineDenver Gazette, 5/15/2026

Ernest Luning reports:
Hunter Rivera, the 24-year-old chairman of the Weld County Republican Party, was one of two men arrested Thursday on suspicion of trying to buy sex from Larimer County Sheriff’s Office investigators who posed as minors as part of an operation targeting child predators.\ 
After news of Rivera’s arrest broke late Friday, multiple prominent Republicans denounced Rivera and called for his immediate resignation from the party position. 
The sheriff’s office said in a news release that “several dozen people” responded to investigators who posed as minors offering sexual acts for sale on local websites and online forums. Two men — one of whom was Rivera — showed up at an agreed-upon location to pay for sex but were arrested and later booked into the county jail, the office said. 
Rivera, who lives in Windsor, faces four felony charges, the sheriff’s office said: soliciting a child prostitute, internet luring of a child, soliciting to arrange a minor prostitute in a cybercrime, and attempted sexual assault on a child.

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Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Rex Reed

 
No shelf life for Rex.

Nothing in LINKcat

New York Times, 4/21/2026

Clyde Haberman reports:
Mr. Reed made no bones about his fascination with filmdom’s grandes dames of yesteryear — the Dietrichs, Bergmans, Lansburys and Mercouris — and he tended to write about them glowingly. “I am a fan of what was, not what is,” he said. Modern actresses barely raised his thick eyebrows. “The old broads are the ones who interest me the most,” he once told Newsweek. “Nothing bores me more than these miniskirted girls with nothing on their minds.” 
Here he was on Bette Davis in 1968, when he was a regular contributor to The New York Times: “Froggy-eyed, lipstick-slashed or glowing like a Tiffany lamp, she is exciting enough, even when photographed through gauze, to make the latest youth idols about as interesting as a withered logarithm.”





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