Michigan "bird flu"

https://theconversation.com/bird-flu-flares-up-again-in-michigan-poultry-an-infectious-disease-expert-explains-the-risk-to-humans-chickens-cows-and-other-animals-233061
They have H5N1 in poultry flocks in Michigan again.  Like other recent cases they are not saying if it is the dairy flu or not.
Michigan was one of the first states infected by the Dairy flu, and this sounds like a second round of infection.  If Michigan was like California (they never started testing their herds to find out) the dairy virus likely burned through the Michigan dairies after only 2 or 3 months.  They may have been virus free (all the infected herds should have recovered) for more than 3 months.
They aren't reporting more infected herds (the virus has likely mutated enough to start reinfecting dairy herds) but a lot of commercial poultry farms have gone down with H5N1.  The first of the 5 commercial flocks was reported Dec 16th so they should know if it is the dairy virus coming back, but they are suppressing that information.  So many commercial flocks indicate that it is the dairy virus and that they are getting infected by nearby dairies.  Commercial flocks are in enclosed buildings and it is rare to have them infected by wild birds, and to have 5 flocks go down in a month indicates that infected dairy workers are again spreading the virus to poultry farms.
None of this is being admitted too, just as they are suppressing the information of what virus genotype infected the chickens.  This suppression started in December when the poultry flock in Oregon went down and the cats in Washington, Oregon, and California got sick from raw milk and pet food indicating that the dairy virus had gotten into the meat supply, so they stopped identifying what virus infected the cats and poultry.  The cats that drank raw milk obviously had the dairy virus, but the house cats and Big cats at the sanctuary got infected by the meat that they were feeding the animals.  Instead of admit that the dairy virus had gotten into the meat supply they stopped identifying the virus.
It is a stupid thing to do, what was needed was to stop any dairy cattle from being processed for meat until they had been tested.  What would be worse is if beef cattle have gotten infected in feed lots in those states.
The lack of proper response is just a continuation of how poorly the whole dairy epidemic has been dealt with.  The information should not be suppressed, but dealt with properly.  If it is the dairy virus in Michigan they should be testing the dairy herds in all those counties with infected poultry flocks.  If it is the genotype D1.1 from wild birds they need to contact the backyard poultry keepers and inform them of the risks and what they should do if their birds start to exhibit avian flu symptoms.
If it was the dairy virus in pet food they needed to determine if the source was dairy cattle or beef cattle.  The dairy virus is mainly a mammary gland infection in dairy cattle, but severe cases have gut infections that can obviously be passed to beef cattle.  Feed lots would be subject to infection by infected dairy workers also working at the cattle feed lot.
Ron Okimoto