In what way is it insensitive or irrelevant? This article is from 2013. It's an interesting article about botulism.

Is no one allowed to discuss botulism now because someone may have contracted a case in North Korea?

I didn't say North Korea had no culpability.

Would you stop violating the guidelines? We're here for thoughtful, insightful discussions, and there's no room for snarky dismissals like this. Please do better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html