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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: CDC new recommendations for influenza
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:59:39 -0600
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https://www.cdc.gov/han/2025/han00520.html

The CDC is finally doing what I claimed that they should have done when 
the Canadian and Louisiana patient was confirmed to have been infected 
with H5N1 genotype D1.1, and both had the mutations needed to better 
infect humans occur in those two infections.

QUOTE:
Recommendations for Clinicians

When collecting a thorough exposure history from a patient with 
suspected or confirmed influenza who is hospitalized, ask about 
potential exposure to wild and domestic animals, including pets (e.g., 
cats), and animal products (e.g., poultry, dairy cows, raw cow milk and 
raw cow milk products, raw meat-based pet food), or recent close contact 
with a symptomatic person with a probable or confirmed case of A(H5).

Implement appropriate infection control measures when influenza is 
suspected.

If avian influenza A(H5) virus infection is suspected, probable, or 
confirmed in a hospitalized patient, place the patient in an airborne 
infection isolation room with negative pressure with implementation by 
caregivers of standard, contact, and airborne precautions with eye 
protection (goggles or face shield).
END QUOTE:

This should be emphasized in bold print because the first two cases of 
D1.1 infection probably had produced the next pandemic virus, and it is 
obviously lethal since the Louisiana patient died and the Canadian was 
could not breath on their own at one point, and was in critical 
condition.  The CDC needs to specifically state why these containment 
measures need to be in place.  The patients infected by D1.1 are 
producing the next pandemic virus.  The needed mutations seem to be 
selected for during the infection.

They do not want this virus to spread from the infected patients.

The D1.1 genotype should be treated in a totally different way than they 
have not been doing for the Dairy virus (genotype B3.13).  Not 
differentiating the virus is stupid and should not be done at this time.

For D1.1 they need to do more than just test the patients as soon as 
possible.  They need to start trying to prevent the infection of these 
patients.  D1.1 is coming from wild birds.  The people most likely to be 
infected have contact with poultry exposed to wild birds like free range 
commercial farms, and backyard pet poultry. The USDA and CDC need to 
determine where the D1.1 genotype exists in the wild, and warn people 
with bird contact.  They need to tell them exactly what to do if they 
think their birds are getting sick.  The USDA will likely send people in 
Hazmat suits to test the birds because they do not want to be infected.

They probably have to warn cat and dog owners to monitor their pets, and 
at the first sign of influenza they need to get them tested.  Cats and 
dogs can likely be infected due to dead birds that they may have contact 
with.

That this is not being done is crazy.  Trying to make excuses for their 
near total lack of any attempt to do the right thing for the dairy 
epidemic is something that should never be done.  They screwed up, but 
now they have a much worse threat to deal with, and not doing what 
should be done could result in what they should have been trying to 
prevent since the first human got infected by the dairy virus.  The 
dairy virus has had very mild symptoms in humans, but the D1.1 genotype 
is lethal.

Ron Okimoto