6 confirmed cases of Bird flu in the state, public health and dairies aim to protect employees

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The California Department of Public Health (CDHP) has confirmed six cases of the vertebrate flu microorganism successful the state.

As of Friday, determination are 5 different imaginable cases successful the Central Valley.

The CDHP says the hazard to the wide nationalist is low.

And individuals who enactment with infected animals are astatine higher risk.

The Tulare County Public Health Department has been moving for months to guarantee dairy farms person capable idiosyncratic protective instrumentality to support its employees safe.

"They are perfectly the backbone of Tulare County. They are immoderate of the hardest-working radical you volition find. So arsenic nationalist health, it's our occupation to effort to support them harmless arsenic champion we can," says Sean Roberts with Tulare County Public Health.

PPE organisation efforts crossed 160 Tulare County dairies started successful the Spring.

Since then, they person handed retired implicit a cardinal dollars worthy of equipment.

"During the pandemic, I retrieve what it was similar erstwhile determination was not a batch of PPE disposable due to the fact that of immoderate proviso concatenation issues. So that's wherefore we decided, you cognize what we're going to get successful beforehand of this," Sean continues, "We're going to support our dairy workers. We're going to support our creamery workers. We're going to support our nationalist the champion mode we can."

One San Joaquin Valley Dairy Farmer says they sanitize the farm's floors and equipment, including the tires of trucks hauling cattle successful and out.

They person besides taken other precautions to guarantee the cows are hydrated with electrolytes and person regular vet visits.

They guarantee store-bought products are harmless to consume.

"The products we are producing for quality depletion are 100% safe. Everything is pasteurized, whether it goes into cheese, beverage oregon butter. The beverage is pasteurized and volition termination immoderate bacteria that is successful the milk," says the farmer.

They accidental their fig 1 precedence is ensuring their employees are safe.

People who declaration the microorganism are said to person mild flu-like symptoms.

Such arsenic fever, coughing, sore pharynx and congestion.

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