Re: California cases exploding with USDA assistance.

On 11/6/2024 4:58 PM, RonO wrote:

On 11/4/2024 8:48 PM, RonO wrote:

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.
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The Oregon case has been confirmed to be the dairy virus.  They do need to start testing dairy herds in Oregon.
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https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian- influenza/hpai-detections/hpai-confirmed-cases-livestock
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Ron Okimoto
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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/california- washington-report-more-suspected-h5-avian-flu-cases
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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.
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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.
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https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spotlights/h5n1-response-11012024.html
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Ron Okimoto
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https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/Animal_Health/HPAI.html
 This was posted yesterday (Nov. 5) by California, but it doesn't reflect all the new herds that the USDA added to their list.  The USDA added 71 new herds from California on Nov. 4th, but California is claiming that the numbers only went up by 30 to 233.
 Ron Okimoto
 

24 more California herds were added to the USDA total yesterday Nov 8th.  They are claimed to have been confirmed Nov. 6th. This likely makes the total around 300 for California.  Google AI summary said it was 300, but I still can't find the source of that number.  There are also 4 more herds from Utah.  It may be that the California numbers announced are low because the USDA contact tracing teams are sending in their samples without notifying the California effort.  The USDA had sent in over a dozen individuals to help the California contract tracing effort to identify more infected dairies.  A week later the USDA announced that they were giving up on that, and just testing all the dairies in the state.  They were likely finding a lot of infected dairies.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/hpai-confirmed-cases-livestock
The bulk milk tank testing results should start showing up next week.
Ron Okimoto