USDA's new plan for avian influenza

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/usda-rolls-out-5-step-plan-battle-avian-flu-poultry
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/02/26/usda-invests-1-billion-combat-avian-flu-and-reduce-egg-prices
Their biosecurity efforts do not take into account the transfer of the dairy virus to poultry flocks via dairy workers.  Most of the commercial layer flocks lost since March 2023 have been infected with the dairy virus, and the transmission was not from wild birds.  Their 83% transmission from wild birds is misleading because the open air duck and turkey farms along with birds exposed to outdoors like free range or backyard poultry represent the majority of poultry infections, but these flocks are much smaller than commercial layer flocks.  The USDA's own work in June 2024 claimed that 2 dairy workers from infected farms worked on two of the commercial layer farms that became infected with the dairy virus.  They ignore how most of the birds have been infected and their plan is likely going to fail.
They need to identify all the infected dairies and make sure that dairy workers from those farms to not work on commercial poultry farms.  You can change clothes, take showers, and an infected worker will still transmit the virus to the birds.  They understood that dairy workers were infecting the first commercial layer flocks in Texas and Michigan because both states determined that dairy workers often work at more than one dairy, and 7% of them in both states also work on commercial poultry farms.
The USDA has ignored their own findings long enough, and the denial has to end in order to keep the commercial flocks from being infected. California understood that dairy workers were spreading the infection because contact tracing was identifying so many infected herds, but California refused to test dairy workers for infection, and limit the dairy workers from working on other farms.  California limted cattle movement, but would not restrict dairy worker movements.  The result was that nearly all the dairy herds in California were infected and they lost over 40% of their commercial layer flocks to the dairy virus.
With results like that it goes beyond incompetence for the USDA to not account for how the flocks are being infected in their plan.
Ron Okimoto