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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The California Department of Food and Agriculture confirmed 3 cases of the avian flu among Central Valley cows Friday.
"It is thing that tin transmit done a herd reasonably quickly, and truthful that's wherefore identifying perchance sick cows… connected the aboriginal broadside is truthful important," Fresno County Farm Bureau CEO Ryan Jacobsen said.
Jacobsen says shoppers bash not request to interest astir buying beverage astatine the market store, though.
"Right now, I would fishy that the user is going to beryllium unaffected by this. It is decidedly a interest erstwhile it comes to the workplace side, simply due to the fact that we privation to marque definite we're not lone keeping our bovine friends steadfast but besides making definite we support our employees healthy," Jacobsen said.
California joins 13 different states with akin diagnoses, according to the CDC, and Jacobsen says immoderate of those outbreaks dispersed to humans. He emphasizes the value of worker protection.
"In cases wherever it does marque sense, PPE, masks, and different things are being offered to employees to effort to support themselves if determination is simply a suspected lawsuit connected the dairy," Jacobsen said.
He says the avian flu tin person semipermanent effects connected infected cows, decreasing their quality to nutrient milk.
“There's conscionable a batch of owed diligence going successful to marque definite that we're doing what we tin to support our herd," Jacobsen said.
He hopes done quarantining sick cows and investigating cows coming from retired of state, farmers volition beryllium capable to halt the dispersed of the microorganism and support their cows.
