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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/32/9/26-0785_article#r7

Like the 2024 Michigan study that found house cats infected by dairy
workers this CDC study documents 2 cases where indoor house cats (no
direct exposure to outdoors and birds) were infected by dairy H5N1. The
study obfuscates the fact that both indoor cats were owned by dairy
workers. We first learn that the 3 positive cases (out of 73 blood
samples) lived within 2 km of a dairy. The feral cat was collected
within half a km of a dairy, and only in discussion of the conclusions
do we find out that the two indoor cats that lived within 2 km of a
dairy lived in the house with a dairy worker. Since the dairy workers
were not tested they claim that the can't conclude that the dairy
workers infected their cats, but they could rule out bird contact and
exposure to raw milk or meat (the dairy worker is about the only vector
left). The Previous Michigan study also did not test the dairy workers
so they could not conclude that their cats were infected by the dairy
workers, but they also ruled out exposure to raw milk and meat.

The evidence that dairy workers can infect cats is disregarded, and for
some reason there is no quarantine of dairy workers on infected farms. surrounding poultry farms are allowed to be infected by dairy workers as
well as other dairies that these workers also work on (dairy workers
work on more than one farm including nearby poultry farms).

Utah allowed two commercial layer farms to be infected in July because
they did not restrict dairy worker movements. The virus is still
spreading to new dairies in Idaho because Idaho does not restrict dairy
worker movements. Restricting cattle and equipment movements has not
worked in stopping other farms from being infected even after bulk milk
tank testing was implemented and all infected dairies were identified.
Dairy workers were still allowed to work on other dairy farms.

The first dairy worker to be identified as being infected in Texas was shedding live infective virus that they eventually made the research
virus culture from his eye swabs, and they have never wanted to believe
that humans can transmit the virus to other animals. The obfuscation
and denial continues, and the dairy epidemic isn't going away.

Ron Okimoto

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