Re: My computer busted

On 12/27/24 1:06 PM, RonO wrote:

On 12/27/2024 7:58 AM, Chris Thompson wrote:

RonO wrote:

My computer went down, and it just came back today.
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A lot has happened with the Dairy virus.  Cats exposed to raw milk in California have died.

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And it wiped out half the big cats in a Washington sanctuary
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/26/nx-s1-5239841/bird-flu-kills-20-cats- washington-sanctuary
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And it's killed hundreds of wild bald eagles
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/interactive/2024/bald-eagle- avian-flu-death/
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 There seems to be a willful cover up about the cats that are going down.   They refuse to release the strain of the virus that killed the cats even though they know what it is.  They made them get rid of their food supply so my guess is that it was due to the dairy virus, and the cats were infected by eating downed cattle likely donated to the facility. Here in Arkansas down cattle are routinely donated to the the local big cat sanctuary because they can't be used for human consumption and have to go to the renderers.  Washington already knows that they have the dairy virus in the state, but they have refused to test their dairies. The Washington poultry farm that went down with the dairy virus and the 11 poultry workers that got infected got infected by a local dairy. That is how the poultry farms in all the other states have gotten infected.  Dairy workers also work on poultry farms and take the virus to those other farms.  They have been lying about this situation since the beginning of this fiasco, and it is catching up with them in Washington where they refused to acknowledge reality.  Utah immediately understood how their poultry farm got infected and found 8 infected dairies in the same county.  The dairies are just not self reporting being infected.
 So the CDC and USDA have started not releasing what strain of the virus that they are dealing with in these situations because it makes them look like the losers that they have been for months.  Instead they just make the cat sanctuary discard their current food supply without testing it.
 This likely means that sick cattle are likely going to slaughter in states that have not admitted to having dairy infections in states like Washington, and contaminated meat is likely in the current food supply unless they have stopped sending cull dairy cattle to slaughter.
 The house cats that have died due to raw milk and raw food are also a case in point.  They have already sequenced the virus and know that the sequence from the dead cats and the raw food had identical sequence, but they won't say if it was the dairy virus or not.  The cat that died drinking raw milk was obviously the dairy virus, but they won't admit to it.
 They have needed to detect all the infected dairies and isolate the dairy workers since the beginning, but they never wanted to do what needed to be done to prevent human infections.  Even California joined in with the denial.  They claimed that they were going to start testing dairy workers, but that never happened and they only have tested 130 (found 36 infected) out of more than 5,000 known to have been exposed to infected cattle.  The Michigan and Colorado antibody screen indicates that 7 to 10% of dairy workers at infected farms were infected in those states.  California is a tragic case in point because they knew that dairy workers were taking the virus to other farms because their initial contact tracing found dozens of infected farms sharing dairy workers, but they refused to restrict the movement of the farm workers between dairies and poultry farms, and ended up with a lot of infected poultry flocks, and half the dairy farms in California as currently infected. The easiest way to infect another dairy or poultry farm is for an infected dairy worker shedding live virus to go to those farms, and they have known that was happening since Michigan and Texas found that 7% of the dairy workers on infected farms also worked at poultry farms, and even more worked at other dairies.  For most dairies dairy work is part time, and workers work at more than one farm.
 https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/oregon-avian-flu-cat-death-prompts-nationwide-raw-pet-food-recall
 They need to monitor the contacts of the sick cats because the cats were shedding live virus.  We do not want the same type of infections in humans.  The dairy virus infects the brains of cats and kills them.  The CDC is claiming to be worried about the virus becoming a human respiratory infection, but if it became a neurological infection like it is for cats and some other mammals that would be much worse.
 What is stupid is that the CDC has approved a commercial test for H5N1, but as stupid as it may seem it is a nasal swab test, and it is known that the high majority of workers infected by the dairy virus are negative for nasal swabs and only positive for eye swabs.  The dairy virus seems to infect mammary glands and tear ducts effectively.  This means that the approved commercial test is nearly worthless for testing dairy workers and poultry workers.
 Ron Okimoto
 

This is making me wonder if there is any reason to have a CDC.  It seems as thought they do nothing unless someone kicks them, and they still do nothing.