Re: Dairy infections demonstrated to be more wide spread than thought

On 2/13/2025 4:01 PM, RonO wrote:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7404a2.htm?s_cid=mm7404a2_w
 The CDC is just releasing results of a study initiated in September 2024.  150 veterinarians that had worked with cattle were tested for H5 antibodies and 3 of them were determined to be positive (remember the failure rate for testing the Missouri patients).  These veterinarians never knew that they were infected, and one of them worked in states that had never claimed to have had infected cattle.
 The CDC concludes that the dairy epidemic has been more widespread than they have bothered to detect (they had waste water and milk product results indicating many more states were infected than they wanted to admit to).  These results just indicate that the infection has been running rampant across the US.  Just as I have been claiming the poultry farms that have been infected were likely infected by dairy herds, but those states were just not admitting to having been infected.  The veterinarians claimed that they were unaware that they had been working with infected cattle.  Voluntary testing was a catastrophic failure in trying to curb the dairy virus epidemic.  The dairy virus has likely burned through the dairy herds of most states by now, and what they need to be worried about is the herds getting reinfected, or being infected by the new D1.1 genotype.
 As sad as it may seem their recommendations concerning these results are "Continued systematic surveillance of livestock and milk could aid in appropriate occupational hazard assessment.†††" and "Since the time that this serosurvey was conducted, the HPAI A(H5) outbreak has expanded to include 67 confirmed human cases, including 40 with dairy cattle exposure (1,2). These data highlight the possible benefit of national seroprevalence assessments of recent HPAI A(H5) infection among practitioners at increased risk for exposure, which might help assess occupational risk in states without confirmed HPAI A(H5) virus detections in dairy cattle."
 It has been over three months since the CDC claimed that they were going to start testing dairy workers at infected dairies and nothing has happened.  These results only tell them that they should do more such studies, when the D1.1 infections indicate that they should start an immediate testing programs to detect the infected.
 It just seems nuts to find out that they have been missing, probably most of the human infections, and that human infections have been occurring in states where they just never wanted to identify the dairy infection and all they want to do is more nothing.  They know that they need to prevent infections with the D1.1 genotype, and that human infections with that virus has already killed one person and resulted in the production of the mutations needed to produce the next pandemic virus.  They know that a Nevada dairy worker has been infected by dairy cattle with the D1.1 virus, and yet they still do not want to start testing the dairy workers in Nevada in order to identify the infected and treat them with antivirals in order to prevent the next pandemic.
 Ron Okimoto

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/ohio-announces-human-h5n1-avian-flu-case-states-first
Ohio has a poultry worker infected with H5N1.  They are not identifying whether the virus is B3.13 or D1.1, nor did they disclose the condition of the patient.
Ron Okimoto