Re: Willful stupidity at the CDC. Dairy H5N1

On 6/25/2024 8:41 PM, RonO wrote:

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/php/monitoring-bird-flu/agenda.html#:~:text=Since%20April%202024%2C%20several%20human,Bird%20Flu%3A%20Current%20Situation).
 The CDC has issued their public health agenda for the H5N1 situation comedy that they are currently playing out.
 Their primary objective is what it should have been from day one.
 QUOTE:
Objective 1
Prevent infection and illness in people exposed to HPAI A(H5N1) viruses.
END QUOTE:
 They have known for months what they needed to do in order to meet this objective, but never initiated an effective program that would accomplish this objective.
 They needed to identify all the infected herds, and quarantine them and the workers, and close contacts of those workers, on those farms.  They needed to require personal protective equipment for all humans working with the infected cattle.  They never attempted to identify all the infected herds and only "recommended" personal protective equipment be used by workers working with infected cattle.  They never attempted to identify all the infected herds so that they could attempt to keep humans at those farms from being infected.
 As sad as it may seem they still refuse to do what they know that they should have been doing from day one, and claim that continuing to do the monitoring and work with the virus will meet their #1 objective when it never will.  The longer that the virus is allowed to spread among the dairy herds the more dairy workers will be infected.  If the workers do not know that the herd is infected they have no reason to use personal protective gear, and are open to getting infected.
 It has to be some type of willful stupidity that they refuse to admit that they have been wrong for months, and instead of initiate what they should have done months ago, they want to keep doing what is not working.
 All they needed to do was to start testing pooled milk samples from every dairy and testing them.  The FDA had tested milk processing plants in 34 states by the end of April.  At that time only 9 states were known to have positive herds, but processing plants in 9 new states (not then known to have positive herds) produced H5N1 positive milk products.  The CDC could have gone to those plants, and gotten a list of all the dairy herds that could have contributed to the positive samples and tested those herds, but no one wanted to find any new positive herds.  The FDA released the names of the states producing positive milk products on May 10th, but still no one used the information to identify more herds in more states.  Since then only 3 more states have admitted to having positive herds and 2 of those states were already known to have produced the positive FDA samples.  Those herds would have been identified much sooner if anyone had acted on the FDA findings.  There are a lot more dairy workers being exposed to infected herds than they want to admit.
 Ron Okimoto

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/4th-human-case-bird-flu-linked-dairy-cow/story?id=111654647
Another human infection with the Dairy virus.  A Colorado dairy worker with eye symptoms only was verified to be infected by the H5N1 dairy influenza.  Colorado currently has the most infected herds in the last 30 days, and the reason why is that this worker is likely just the tip of the iceberg for workers that were infected.  Colorado wasn't a state listed as getting cattle from Texas, so it is likely that an infected human took the virus to Colorado, and other infected humans have likely spread the virus around to other herds in the state, but the CDC and USDA still are displaying willful stupidity and not admitting to how the virus has been transmitted to so many herds in so many states.  The virus does not remain infective on clothing and skin long enough for the workers to take it to other states.  They obviously have, had to be infected and shedding virus in order to transfer the infection to so many states and so many herds within the states.  The CDC and USDA still refuse to start testing herds in order to identify all the infected cattle, so that the dairy workers can be warned and be protected.  Only 12 states have admitted to having infected herds at this time, but neither the CDC, nor the USDA has bothered to look for infected herds, and most people that have commented on it seem to think that there are probably over 20 states with infected herds in the lower 48 (at least double the number of states verified to have infected herds at this time).
There are a lot more infected herds and a lot more dairy workers exposed to infected cattle, but willful stupidity reigns at the CDC and USDA and they refuse to do what has needed to be done for months.  As crazy as it may seem they seem to be waiting and hoping that the virus burns through the infected herds before it can be transmitted to other herds, but they know that it takes over 6 weeks for the virus to burn through a herd so that the herd is no longer infective, and the virus obviously spreads rapidly to other dairy herds via human activity.  The result is that the number of infected herds in the states that they are "monitoring" have just kept increasing because they won't identify the infected herds and start human contact tracing and quarantine procedures in order to stop the spread.
The more humans allowed to be infected, the more chance the virus has of further adapting to infecting humans, resulting in the next pandemic.
Ron Okimoto