Re: OT? Dairy flu

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dairy-industry-must-act-faster-to-keep-h5n1-bird-flu-from-starting-a/
Scientific American has an opinion piece stating what I have been going on about.  For some stupid reason the USDA and CDC decided to rely on "self reporting" instead of going in and testing the herds and states that likely had infected herds.  It has just allowed the virus to spread to more dairy herds, and they have no idea of the extent of the infection because the CDC chose to "monitor" only a few herds in two states.
It has been sad and the opinion piece notes that the poultry industry has suffered because of it.  When the price of poultry products start going up it is the USDA's and CDC's fault for not acting as they should have acted.  You can't keep the avian flu off a poultry farm if changing clothing and even showering in, as is required at some commercial breeding facilities, when the worker is infected and shedding live virus.  For a poultry farm the infected flock is depopulated (killed off) and poultry within a mile radius of the infected flock are also disposed of.  Several 2 million bird layer flocks have had to be depopulated in several states, and they were infected by the dairy cattle with a likely human intermediate.
They knew from day one that dairy workers were likely taking the virus to other farms and infecting other herds, and poultry flocks, but they only "recommended" that dairy workers and their contacts not go to other farms if they have come into contact with infected cattle.  The kicker is that they refused to identify all the infected herds so most of the dairy workers in contact with infected cattle were not under the "recommendation".  It has been sad and should never have unfolded as it has.
The more dairy herds that they allow to be infected, the more humans will be infected.
Ron Okimoto