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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - 26 cases of quality vertebrate flu person been reported successful California since early October.
That's according to the California Department of Public Health's last update on Nov. 15.
14 of those cases are successful Tulare County. Its wellness section says it volition proceed to show vertebrate flu outbreaks and radical who enactment intimately with infected animals.
Tricia Stever Blattler is the Executive Director of the Tulare County Farm Bureau.
She said workplace bureau members person reported galore vertebrate flu cases and an interaction connected beverage production.
“I deliberation each dairy successful the southbound San Joaquin Valley expects that they volition person immoderate hazard and vulnerability to the illness," she explained. "Dairies person told america that determination is, you know, a important driblet successful the magnitude of beverage being produced, if the dairy has a ample corruption of its lactating animals.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) corroborate those successful interaction with infected cows are astatine higher hazard of getting the vertebrate flu.
Stever Blattler believes there's been a associated effort made to assistance dairies successful Tulare County, that includes making definite workers person capable idiosyncratic protective equipment.
“Masks, disposable gloves, manus sanitizer, look shields and goggles person been made disposable to dairy producers, and that has mostly been an effort from our county's wellness section moving with our region cultivation commissioner's office," she said.
She besides said determination are present investigating centers disposable for Central Valley workplace workers.
Stever Blattler said, "Our region has besides acceptable up immoderate aviator testing, whether it's asking dairy employees to travel successful for escaped testing, to effort to bash much screening."
As it starts to consciousness cooler, Stever Blattler emphasized little vigor volition marque things easier.
“It was a small spot much of a situation getting workers to privation to guard, you know, person facemasks oregon goggles or, you know, further layers of extortion due to the fact that of the heat," she noted. "Those truly blistery triple-digit weeks that we had successful aboriginal October were creating rather a spot of further accent connected our dairy cattle. And truthful getting immoderate of that precocious vigor to spell distant has been a help."
