Re: Two poultry workers in Arizona with H5N1

On 12/9/2024 2:57 PM, RonO wrote:

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2024/12/06/ pinal-county-workers-confirmed-as-first-human-cases-of-bird- flu/76827272007/
 This hasn't been confirmed to be the dairy virus, nor have the cases been confirmed by the CDC, but if it is the Dairy virus they should be looking for infected dairy herds in Arizona.  Poultry farms get infected by nearby dairies.  The Dairy virus is spreading among dairy cattle and not among wild birds.  Wild birds have been infected, but they seem to die around the farms where they got infected.
 Ron Okimoto
 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/nevada-reports-its-first-avian-flu-detection-dairy-cattle-virus-hits-iowa
Nevada is admitting to it's first dairy infection.  There are only 20 dairy herds in the state, but the largest herd has 32,000 cows on it. One herd North of Las Vegas went down.  Two more commercial poultry flocks went down in Iowa and California.  California doesn't have much of an excuse.  They know that they need to keep dairy workers off the poultry farms, but my guess is that quarantine is still "voluntary" and not enforced.  Dairy workers have rights, but they have to keep other herds and poultry flocks from being infected.  Poultry flocks get depopulated, but infected dairy farms keep producing milk.
Still no results from the CDC's claims to start testing dairy workers back in early Nov. in order to detect infected and isolate and treat them with anti-viral drugs.
Ron Okimoto