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On 7/13/2025 5:06 PM, RonO wrote:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/quick-takes-more- h5n1-dairy-cattle-us-covid-wastewater-uptick-polio

CIDRAP is reporting multiple new detections, but only one has been
listed by the USDA.-a It is a herd in California.-a The USDA is not
counting reinfected herds in states that had previously had the dairy
virus infection.-a They are also not noting what genotype is infecting
these new herds.

It seems stupid that California is still having more herds infected when something like 85% of their herds have already been infected and they
know that all they need to do to stop new infections is to keep cattle
and dairy workers (and probably their close contacts) from infected
farms from moving to other farms.-a California has had one herd in June
and this herd in July.

Ron Okimoto

https://hogvet51.substack.com/p/h5n1-2344b-loose-ends-from-or-co

This hogvet51 article has a mid year review. The CDC has ended it's
dairy epidemic surveillance having never implemented dairy worker
testing and contact tracing.

No new human infections have been reported in June or July, but that is
likely because they are not testing.

Apparently there are 8 "affected" states that have an unknown number of infected dairy herds (the USDA stopped reporting reinfected herds) and
there are 25 states that are not participating in the bulk milk tank
testing of their dairies so it is unknown if untested states have
infected herds.

This seems to be a sad state to start claiming that the epidemic is
over. The dairy epidemic response started when there was only half a
dozen states reporting a hand full of infected herds each (reporting was voluntary and still is in states not participating in milk testing).

They still claim to not understand how the poultry farms around infected dairies are getting infected.

Pretty sad at this late date.

Herds are getting reinfected in multiple states. They claim to not know
how this is happening because cattle movements are restricted, but
everyone knows that the dairy worker movements are not restricted. If
they had implemented dairy worker testing and contact tracing they would
have likely ended the spread of the virus by now, and saved 10s of
millions of layer chickens from being infected.

To claim victory while the virus is still spreading in 8 states seems to
be a stupid thing to do.

Ron Okimoto


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