Guardian article on dairy influenza

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/22/bird-flu-virus-trump
They note that the US does not have a handle on the spread of the dairy epidemic, and claim that the virus is now endemic to cattle, as it should have been concluded with the first dairy to dairy infections. Their little diagram about how the virus is spread is inaccurate because the cow to poultry spread is obviously mediated through human dairy workers that work on both poultry farms and dairies.  That has been known since the USDA released their June 2024 report acknowledging that 2 dairy workers from infected dairies also worked at two poultry farms that got infected in Michigan.  They also note that the recent report (initiated in May 2024 and delayed for some reason until now) claimed evidence for human transmission of the dairy virus from dairy workers to their cats.
The claim is that Trump's stupidity is just making the situation worse, but the USDA and CDC were already not doing much to contain the spread of the dairy virus before Trump started messing with the situation.  We have obviously known that there was human transmission of the virus since May and June of 2024, but nothing was done about it.  California confirmed by contact tracing that humans were spreading the virus in October 2024, and still they did nothing to restrict dairy worker movements between dairies and poultry farms and ended up with nearly all their dairies infected and 40% of their layer flocks lost.  The dairy worker testing that was supposed to have started in Nov. 2024 never happened, and the CDC is still claiming only around 700 total humans have been tested.  They have a pretty good idea that humans are spreading the D1.1 genotype in Nevada (all dairies have been infected with the same virus with the mutation to facilitate replication in mammals and one dairy worker has already been confirmed to be infected in early Feb yet they never started dairy worker testing in order to treat the infected dairy workers and stop the spread to other dairies.
Ron Okimoto