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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Cats infected by the dairy virus
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 08:12:07 -0500
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On 8/23/2024 8:09 PM, RonO wrote:
> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird-flu-is-infecting-pet- 
> cats-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
> 
> Household pet cats not on dairy farms have been infected by the dairy 
> virus in multiple states, but 2 cases in Colorado were indoor cats.  The 
> possibility is that they may have been infected by humans.  It could be 
> an indication that human infections are more widespread than they 
> currently have identified.  Colorado has the most human cases detected 
> so far, and the Colorado virus is most closely related in sequence to 
> the one isolated from an infected Michigan dairy worker.  My guess is 
> that humans took the dairy virus to Colorado because they were not 
> reported to have gotten cattle from a known infected state, and the 
> virus is most closely related to the one that infected a Michigan dairy 
> worker.  No one is contact tracing, but an infected dairy worker or 
> close contact of a dairy worker from Michigan is likely responsible for 
> the Colorado infections.  How else did the Michigan strain get to 
> Colorado and infect dairy herds there?
> 
> Ron Okimoto
> 
> 

The cat infections were not discussed in the last CDC weekly update 
(8/15/2024), and the CDC missed their weekly update for this week, so 
there is no information on what the CDC is doing with the additional 
evidence of human transmission of the virus.

I would also note that multiple Florida poultry have recently been found 
to have H5N1 and the USDA and CDC still refuse to test Florida dairy 
herds for the virus.  It has been known since the first cases in Texas 
that poultry flocks get infected by infected dairy herds, likely via 
infected dairy workers.  It has been known since the FDA data in May 
that Florida was producing dairy virus positive milk samples, but the 
dairy industry wants to remain willfully ignorant and in denial.  There 
are a lot more states with positive herds that are not admitting to 
having them.  None of the dairy workers in Florida and these other 
states that refuse to test their herds are being protected from being 
infected.

Ron Okimoto