Angie Rasmussen

Science is fundamental to democracy, hence it’s attacked. Rough times for virology & virologists, but there are silver linings even on dark days. Like talking virology w/@microbetv.bsky.social, the virologist who trained me. 20+ yrs on, it reminds me why I love virology & why it’s worth fighting for

If America can fight Ebola by giving Americans Ebola, maybe I can smoke my poor health away!

Happy Negroni season to everyone except Secretary of State Marco Rubio for an outbreak of a rare ebolavirus that might be the deadliest in history that his actions directly enabled, threatening global health and national security. Cheers 🥃 @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social

Wtf is Bundibugyo virus & why should you care? 1. It’s a type of ebolavirus 2. This outbreak is very bad already & we don’t have any idea how big it is. It’s been going on for weeks or even months. 3. We’re about to enter the find out stage of #MAHA #FAFO. And the US has a lot to account for.

Effective outbreak responses depend on expertise beyond surgical dick enhancement and spreading MAGA conspiracy theories like hantavirus on a cruise ship. Join me and @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social in demanding a higher standard from our health officials.

Looking for reliable news on the hantavirus outbreak? Stepping out of my vaccine conference to be on the BBC world service radio in a few minutes to get into more detail. I’ll be doing more updates like this with @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social so let me know what you think and ask me anything!

RFK Jr’s ideas are more in line with the Klan than the Kennedy family. He pushed reparenting on a 2nd podcast called “Latino Town Hall” & said that COVID-19 is an ethnic bioweapon designed to spare Chinese & Jewish people. When someone keeps telling you who they are, believe them.

Priest will come to give me last rites and take my final confession and with my dying breath I will declare that vaccines prevent disease, not infection

It’s not too late to make sure you are protected against RSV. It's never too late to make sure you are protected against measles.

Were these raggedy ostrich medical freedom yokels in remote BC about to cure bird flu & dethrone Ozempic? Was the farm really a multi-billion dollar biologics manufacturer disguised as a Maple MAGA convoy separatist squat? Nah, it was a scam. 🙏🏻 CBC fifth estate and Mark Kelley

The lab leakers have spoken & my article about the evidence that the pandemic started with zoonotic spillover is VERY DESPERATE/STUPID (just like me). As usual, it’s a lot of effort to deny they are conspiracy theorists & useful idiots Propaganda time! rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reaso...

I was unpleasantly surprised to have my taxi ride interrupted by Dr. Drew selling ivermectin—which doesn’t work to treat respiratory viruses—at a 600% markup & claiming falsely that vaccines are dangerous & don’t work. When does quackery exceed board standard tolerability limits?

It gets continually floated that scientists should not be political. I fucking disagree

Is it possible to quit an advisory committee that was already disbanded by the order of a federal judge? Robert Malone tests the hypothesis in his new quest for a drama free life

TODAY at 2 pm ET: join me & my fellow Zoonati as we catalog and correct all the inaccurate claims that climate change-denying, tone policing, British pheasant sex expert Matt King Coal is as good at virology as he is causing historic bank runs. Rasmussenretorts.substack.com #NIHFFS

Six years ago, if you asked me what would happen after COVID, I would not have said HHS will be run by the most famous anti-vaxxer in America and he’s gonna deschedule the US into Danish-inspired preventable disease outbreak hell

I stopped by The Incubator to have a little chat with my PhD mentor @microbetv.bsky.social about H5N1 bird flu. I guess I’m all grown up as a virologist now that my teacher is asking me questions, but as Prof. Racaniello taught me, you should never stop learning ❤️🦠

Here is ostrich town crier Katie explaining how she has antibodies to H5N1 because of the “harmless” H5N1 she got from her mom’s infected ostriches & how we’d all be seropositive for H5N1 if we were tested. Using ostrich expert Steven Pelech’s test, that’s probably true 🧵

Ostrich antibodies are just antibodies. They aren't superior in terms of being antibodies, but you wouldn't know it from ostrich exaggeration. Here's farmer Dave talking about how ostriches survived the meteor that ended the dinosaurs because of their all-powerful immune systems.