Re: California cases exploding with USDA assistance.

On 11/4/2024 4:33 PM, RonO wrote:

Oct 24th the USDA announced that it was going to assist California on contact tracing to identify infected herds.  Oct. 30th the USDA announced that they were implementing bulk milk tank testing of all dairies in states affected by the virus, likely due to what they found by contact tracing.  Last Thursday they were only claiming 203 herds infected in California, but they added 71 more confirmed herds today. Google in their AI summary is claiming more than 300 California herds infected, but I can't find the article making that claim.  From what was added to the USDA site today it looks like 274 herds have been infected.
 The Oregon case has been confirmed to be the dairy virus.  They do need to start testing dairy herds in Oregon.
 https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian- influenza/hpai-detections/hpai-confirmed-cases-livestock
 Ron Okimoto
 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/california-washington-report-more-suspected-h5-avian-flu-cases
This is an article updating the situation, but it doesn't account for the total increase at the USDA site.  This article only claims 30 new herds instead of the 71 put up on the site.  It notes 4 new human infections in California and the 3 Oregon cases that came from Washington.  There is also a report that they are detecting H5 in the waste water of Los Angeles County even though the infections are North of LA in the central valley.  They claim to be trying to run down where the virus is coming from.
The CDC confirmed today that the number of infected dairy workers in California rose to 20.  The CDC continues to not claim the close contact of the Missouri patient as having been infected.  Maintaining that there was only one infection in Missouri.
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spotlights/h5n1-response-11012024.html
Ron Okimoto