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On 10/28/24 07:47, RonO wrote:
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-28/bird-flu-cases-in-dairy-cows-roil-farmers-in-california
> 
> This Bloomberg article cites a dramatic increase in the number of dairy 
> herds infected in California, but the normal internet sources do not 
> back up this number at this time.  The claim of 170 infected herds is 
> much higher than the USDA claim last Friday of 137.
> 
> The Bloomberg article notes that this is 40% of all infected herds 
> confirmed in the US at this time, but they do not note that this is 
> because no other state began contact tracing in order to identify the 
> infected herds.  It is likely that the majority of infected herds in all 
> the other states were never identified because no one wanted to 
> determine that they were infected.  Contact tracing was never 
> implimented anywhere else, and that is still the case.  The increased 
> efforts to assist contact tracing to identify infected herds undertaken 
> by the USDA applies only to California at this time.
> 
> The California contact tracing is likely responsible for the 
> identification of two more herds in Idaho last week.  These herds were 
> likely not identified by the current means that Idaho is employing 
> because they are relying on self reporting, hadn't self reported an 
> infected herd for over a month, and California had tracked contact back 
> to Idaho.
> 
> Ron Okimoto

So.

Pasteurization does NOT destroy the virus?

Avoid drinking milk or eating cheese?

There is now a clearly testable way of showing that this
baby died because it drank that milk?

Got it.