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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: CDC lists 52 confirmed cases of dairy influenza in humans
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:00:54 -0600
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On 11/15/2024 7:33 PM, RonO wrote:
> https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
> 
> It looks like the CDC added 5 more cases from California and 1 more case 
> for Washington.  They are also claiming that there was one positive case 
> submitted from California that could not be confirmed at the CDC and 3 
> cases submitted of Poultry workers from Washington that could not be 
> confirmed by the CDC.  Total is now 52.
> 
> The CDC is continuing to not add the seropositive (evidence of past 
> infection) dairy workers and the close contact of the Missouri patient 
> as being infected.  That would add 11 more to the total.
> 
> Ron Okimoto
> 

It wasn't one more case in Washington, but an Oregon poultry worker.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/oregon-reports-first-h5-case-farm-worker-california-reports-5-more

The CDC is counting this as a dairy virus infection, but the Oregon 
report did not identify the virus as the dairy H5N1.  The previous 
poultry flocks in Oregon had been infected by another strain of H5N1 
found in migratory fowl.

The Oregon health department should do contact tracing from the infected 
flock to find out what worker brought in the dairy virus to the poultry 
flock.  That worker may have come from Washington or California, but it 
may be a local dairy that is infected.  In all the other cases the 
poultry farms got infected by local dairies that had workers that also 
worked on poultry farms.  The most recent example of this was Utah that 
found 8 local dairies infected after the poultry farm went down.

Ron Okimoto