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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/cdc-streamlines-h5n1-avian-flu-reporting

The fact is that the CDC has not accurately reported the number of
infections, and they now claim to be streamlining the process of
inaccurate reporting. The CDC never implemented the dairy worker
testing that they claimed that they were going to start Oct 2024 when
they found out that around 10% of dairy workers on infected farms tested positive for H5 antibodies. The report claimed 8% but over 30 of the
samples included in the study were from a previous study that chose
workers that had never had symptoms (they did not want to find any
positives), and all those samples tested negative, so over 30 of the
study samples were not a random sample like the 80 that had 8 positives.
The CDC never included the 2 Texas antibody positive dairy workers in
their 70 infected individuals. They did not include the 8 positives
from the Michigan and Colorado samples, and they never included the 3 veterinarians that were found to be H5 antibody positive.

They have never accurately reported the fact that likely over 1,000
dairy workers have been infected at this time, but the CDC never
bothered to test them.

The failure to start a testing program was just an ass saving decision
on the CDC's part. They knew what they would find if they started, and
it would have meant that they had failed to do their job for over 8
months of the dairy epidemic. This was evident in their claims back in
Oct 2024 when they claimed that they were going to start a testing
program because they needed to detect the infected workers in order to
keep the virus from evolving into the next pandemic virus. They knew
that a lot of dairy workers were getting infected and they did not want
a reassorted virus with human adapted influenza, and they needed to get
the workers antivirals so that they could reduce the chance of mutations occurring that would make the virus more virulent in humans.

Testing never started, so they never found the infected individuals.
Dumb luck has prevented the next pandemic so far, and the dairy epidemic
isn't over and is even reinfecting states that had supposedly cleared
the virus.

Ron Okimoto


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