Dairy virus confirmed in more birds and mammals

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/usda-confirms-more-h5n1-dairy-cows-wild-birds-and-small-mammals
3 more dairy herds confirmed positive since Aug 5th, 100 more detections in wild birds, and 27 more detections in mammals mostly in the Colorado dairy positive areas.
There is a link to the "wild birds" that makes a distinction between the Eurasian (EA) H5N1 (with the 50% mortality rate among human infections) and the American (AM) H5N1 that is the dairy recombinant with a North American wild avian influenza strain.
They have not done a phylogenetic analysis on the wild bird samples, and they likely should.  It looks like a lot of the AM samples collected in 2024 could be dairy related.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/wild-birds
Ron Okimoto