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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Buisness as usual in California dairy regions.
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:50:09 -0600
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https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-11-26/bird-flu-warnings-are-going-unheeded-at-many-dairy-farms

The dairy flu was detected in dairy flu last week and it seems to be 
buisness as usual on the California dairy farms.

QUOTE:
Nearby, workers herded some of the animals onto a rotating platform 
within the farm’s milking parlor and quickly attached pumping equipment. 
The machines buzzed and whirred as the cows were carried in a lazy arc 
to the parlor’s exit, where they were detached from milk hoses and sent 
on their way.

The scene seemed utterly unremarkable — except for the fact that five 
days earlier, the H5N1 bird flu virus that has ravaged California’s 
dairy herds for the last three months, had been confirmed on the farm. 
Although dozens of cows were sick, and their owner expected that number 
to climb, none of the farm’s workers wore personal protective equipment 
and vehicles from off site were let in and out with nary a hint of concern.
END QUOTE:

The have a picture of dead cows in the article.

It sounds like the California dairy workers are not heeding the CDC's 
advice to use protective gear on infected farms.  It sounds like it 
needs to be a requirement not just a recommendation.

These workers are getting infected and then infecting other dairies that 
they also work at and poultry farms.  It probably only takes a 5 to 10% 
infection rate to account for spread of the virus.  It is stupid to deny 
reality at this time with millions of birds already down and all the 
infected dairies detected by contact tracing.  A lot more workers are 
getting infected than they have tested.  Even in California they seem to 
have tested less than 50 dairy workers total (28 confirmed to have been 
infected and producing detectable virus).  That is so crazy at this time 
with 400 dairies infected and what is their excuse?  They have no 
excuse.  Hundreds of dairy workers should have been tested by now in 
just California.  No one wants to confirm what has been happening for a 
very long time.  Infected workers shed live virus and take it to other 
dairies and poultry farms.  This is not rocket science, and the CDC and 
USDA have understood this since the first poultry farm was infected and 
the first infected dairy worker was shedding live culturable virus.  How 
did they think the states that did not get dairy cattle got infected 
dairy herds?  They obviously got migrant dairy workers.

The articles observed for this news article were not wearing protective 
equipment, and will likely just add to the number of infected humans.

QUOTE:
No expert will say that H5N1 bird flu is going to become the next global 
pandemic, and government health officers say the virus poses a low risk 
to the public. However, some experts warn that nearly all the conditions 
needed for the virus to develop a threatening mutation are now present 
in many dairy farms: Lax testing protocols; close, unprotected contact 
between humans and animals; a general failure to take the threat 
seriously enough; and the approach of human flu season.
END QUOTE:

What is the CDC's excuse for the current situation?  8% of the dairy 
workers tested in Colorado and Michigan for H5 antibodies were positive, 
so the CDC and USDA should have known for a very long time how most of 
the dairy herds were being infected, but they did nothing to stop the 
spread.  They needed to identify all the infected herds and prevent 
further dairy worker contacts with other farms that had not yet been 
infected.

Ron Okimoto