Over 650 California dairies under quarantine in effort to prevent bird flu spread

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Hundreds of California dairies nether  quarantine successful  effort   to forestall  vertebrate  flu spread

California authorities agencies accidental astir dairies successful the authorities are nether quarantine due to the fact that of the vertebrate flu.

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- California authorities agencies accidental astir dairies successful the authorities are nether quarantine due to the fact that of the vertebrate flu.

Now, they are moving alongside each different with section dairy farmers to assistance trim vulnerability to H5N1 betwixt infected cows and people.

Over 650 of the 984 dairies successful the authorities are nether quarantine due to the fact that of a increasing vertebrate flu outbreak.

Although the California Department of Public Health says the hazard remains debased for the wide nationalist the microorganism kills 90 to 100 % of infected poultry and astir 1 to 2 percent of cows.

"So, portion it does interaction dairy herds, and it's decidedly devastating to the herd managers compared to however it acts successful poultry it's overmuch little severe," says Dr. Annette M. Jones the State Veterinarian and Director of the Animal Health and Food Safety Services with California Department of Food and Agriculture.

In Southern California much dairies person precocious tested affirmative for the Bird Flu.

The wellness section and California Department of workplace and Agriculture accidental they person besides seen cases successful cats.

"LA County has reported 2 home cats who person been confirmed to person consumed earthy beverage that was infected. We're seeing a batch of neurological diseases and feline taxon with this peculiar virus," mentions Dr. Erica Pan, the California State Epidemiologist and Deputy Director for the Center for Infectious Diseases astatine the California Department of Public Health

Doctors besides corroborate immoderate wastewater successful the authorities has tested affirmative for the virus..

"A batch of the pasteurized beverage that tin beryllium PCR positive, you know, and again, we cognize pasteurized beverage is safe, immoderate microorganism fragments successful determination are not infectious, but they tin inactive trial affirmative successful the wastewater," explains Dr. Erica Pan.

"So, we deliberation really a batch of our wastewater detections are from residential oregon different commercialized beverage dumping oregon down successful the sinks."

So far, the authorities has handed retired implicit 4 cardinal pieces of PPE and says the authorities of exigency declaration allows them to grow their workforce and amended show and respond to situations.

"Again we are truly focusing connected those who are astatine highest risk, which is radical moving with infected animals. Which is wherefore we are focusing arsenic good connected acquisition outreach and providing idiosyncratic protective gear. The lone different extremity I would punctual radical to bash is debar touching chaotic sick animals, oregon dormant animals," says Dr. Pan.

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