Re: Two more California Dairy workers confirmed to be H5N1 infected

On 12/2/2024 1:40 PM, RonO wrote:

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/mammals.html
 I can't find any announcement, but the CDC has increased the California numbers by 2 today (Dec. 2).  The USDA has increased the number of herds infected to 689, but I do not know what states are affected because they haven't updated their data sheet.  It still has the old Nov 27 confirmed data that they put up last Friday.
 Ron Okimoto
 

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-11-29/raw-farm-sales-suspended
Another batch of raw milk products came up positive from the same dairy that tested positive.  Initial bulk milk tank testing was negative, but the farm has identify several asymptomatic positive cows.  So the farm was infected and didn't know it.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/california-reports-h5n1-more-retail-raw-milk-virus-infects-2-more-dairy
CIDRAP notes that two more California dairy workers have been confirmed.   California isn't announcing positives until they are confirmed and it takes the CDC quite a while to confirm cases.  They may still be working on the original batch of samples submitted by California around a month ago.  I recall a news article that claimed that 39 samples had been submitted, and the CDC has only released 30 positives and 1 that could not be confirmed.  That would mean that the CDC is still working on 8 samples.  It could be that the article got the numbers wrong, or I misinterpreted number of workers tested and submitted.  California stopped announcing how many workers that they had tested.
CIDRAP also claims more poultry flocks have gone down in 3 states, but doesn't name the states or the size of the poultry flocks.  Washington should have identified their positive dairy herds by now, and it is pretty sad that they haven't bothered to test their dairies.
Ron Okimoto