Re: OT? Dairy flu

On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:23:28 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
wrote:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dairy-industry-must-act-faster-to-keep-h5n1-bird-flu-from-starting-a/
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The more dairy herds that they allow to be infected, the more humans
will be infected.
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Ron Okimoto

I wonder if the current policies you mention above aren't consequences
of a lack of funding and a lack of political support, due to
conspiracies fallout from the Covid pandemic.

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