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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: USDA announces a new Dairy Influenza testing strategy
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 13:22:11 -0600
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https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2024/12/06/usda-announces-new-federal-order-begins-national-milk-testing

The USDA is finally going to do what needed to be done at the beginning 
of the dairy influenza epidemic.  They are still calling it avian 
influenza when it has been primarily a dairy infection since March. 
Things have just gotten to the point where stupidity and politics can't 
stop them from doing the right thing any longer.

They are going to start a national milk testing program that will force 
the states with infected herds to admit that they have infected herds 
and start them doing something about it.  They need to protect dairy 
workers and poultry flocks from getting infected by the dairy virus.

The CDC's own research in late October indicated that the dairy H5N1 
genotype B3.13 could survive the most common pasteurization method and 
remain infective for at least 4 days in refrigerated whole milk.  The 
FDA went into denial, but claimed to start another milk testing program, 
but implemented the wrong testing protocol to determine if there was an 
issue with the milk supply.  Instead of going to plants accepting 
contaminated milk and testing the raw milk before pasteurization and 
then after pasteurization in order to determine what went in and what 
came out they asked for volunteer production facilities and volunteer 
dairies that wanted their milk tested.  This was obviously stupid, but 
they did it, and never have announced any results from the program. 
They haven't even claimed that they got enough volunteers to do an 
effective study.  They probably needed to test up to a hundred plants 
handling infected milk, using various procedures to pasteurize their 
milk, and they needed to test them multiple times during the days 
production, and on multiple different days of the week.  They needed to 
determine if there was any stage of production that could be compromized 
and let infective milk enter the food supply during stages like shift 
changes, maintenance, cleaning, and restart.

The Missouri patient and the child that got infected by the dairy virus 
in California are possible cases of infection due to ingestion of dairy 
products.  The CDC claims that they do not know how the patients were 
infected, but their only contact with dairy cattle was the milk that 
they drank.  The milk supply might be 99% safe, but it is that 1% that 
could have been an issue in California and Missouri.

It will be important to know if infective virus is surviving in the milk 
supply if the virus does mutate to better infect humans, but the FDA is 
not doing what they should be doing.  Why would any regulatory agency 
rely on volunteers when the ones that will not volunteer are the most 
likely to have the issues that they are looking for?

Ron Okimoto