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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: California Dairy herds positive for the dairy virus
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 20:23:07 -0500
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3 herds in California central valley have been found to be positive for 
the dairy virus.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/29/california-nations-largest-milk-producer-discloses-possible-bird-flu-outbreaks-in-three-dairy-cow-herds/

They claim that California workers are "usually" dedicated to just one 
herd so do not pick up shifts at nearby poultry farms, but months ago 
(before I retired in May) I noted that California had high levels of 
influenza virus in the waste water around the bay area.  At that time 
they had estimated that the virus first infected cattle Sept or Oct 
2023, and they hadn't yet found viral sequence from herds infected that 
early in Texas.  When I looked into the avian influenza cases the Dairy 
virus was most similar to one isolated from a Peregrine falcon in 
California.  California had high levels of influenza virus in their 
waste water (associated with infected herds in Texas and Michigan) and 
Commercial poultry farms started to go down in the central valley in Oct 
2023 (the flocks get infected by the dairy workers).  A number of flocks 
went down within a few months working their way up North and around the 
bay area.

I contacted a person at the Avian disease ARS station in Georgia, and 
tried to get the name of the person that would have the sequence data of 
the California samples (they had not been included in any of the dairy 
virus studies) but I was told that the USDA did not give out that 
information.  I told the guy that they needed to check out those 
samples, but his comment was that they were busy.

My prediction is that when they sequence the central valley virus they 
could identify the region where the initial dairy infection occurred and 
it spread from California to Texas.  The virus spread rapidly out of 
Texas, but it probably came from somewhere else.

The CDC and USDA would have identified many more states with infected 
herds by now if they had acted on the waste water data and the FDA 
identification of states with virus positive dairy products.  The Dairy 
workers are not being protected from being infected in states that 
refuse to identify their infected herds.

Ron Okimoto