Bird flu reaches cows in California, the country’s largest milk producer

Currently stampeding through dairy farms in California, with number of infected herds doubling over the weekend.

[quote]With the new tally, California now ranks second among all affected states for having the most herds with avian influenza. Only Colorado, which has adopted bulk milk-tank surveillance, has more, with 64 herds confirmed. California's high ranking is despite the fact that it only reported its first three infected herds on August 30, while the dairy outbreak was first confirmed on March 25 and thought to have begun late last year.

Texas farmers found it first and didn't say anything, so it spread faster, fucking Texas right wingers again, I hope a million people freeze to death in Texas this winter.

Here you go, it was probably even longer before they said anything.

This is all Kamala Harris' fault! And of course Sleepy Joe. Now mah babies won't git their milk!

Did anybody hear about the first Human Case of Bird Flu in Oregon the other day? Now they have confirmed three more Human cases in California. We are in deep shit with "Brain Worm" Kennedy Jr. in charge of HHS.

Farm workers R5?

I hear that H5N1 gives cows a flavor reminiscent of Kobe.

Mad Cow had such a horrible tang, but get ready to have McDonalds buy it all up and cook it well done.

As long as it doesn't spread to almonds, I'm good.

OMG, SAVE THE PISTACHIOS!!!

Is Nut Flu on the way?

R8- You don't get it. It's spread to humans. The next probable development is Human to Human transmission. That's what happened in China. This is literally the next Pandemic in the making.

Transmission to humans so far has been animal to human and from physical contact. Unless you are drinking unpasteurized milk you should be fine. The case in a pig recently was concerning, but this isn’t particularly.

Won't someone please think of the pig-fuckers?

R4, don't worry. Dr. Pepper's still safe.

Nobody panic. RFK Jr will save us all as our new Health Czar!

US Health officials report first known case of new, more severe strain of monkeypox

It’s travel related. It isn’t spreading in the US.

From WaPo: The individual, who recently traveled from Africa, is isolating at home and recovering after receiving care in San Mateo County, according to the California Department of Public Health.

“There is no concern or evidence that this form of the mpox virus, clade 1, is currently spreading between individuals in California or the United States,” the California health department said in a statement. Nevertheless, public health workers are notifying close contacts of person, the department said.

[quote]Unless you are drinking unpasteurized milk you should be fine.

"Kennedy has said that he wants to boost access to raw milk, or unpasteurized milk, as part of his wish list for the Food and Drug Administration."

Jesus Christ am I in trouble!

Spreading fast, I'm on multi anti-virals, it seemed to help with COVID, just a headache in the afternoon. Now y'all be trying get my meds for your shitty little spreader brats nice

It isn’t spreading fast. All the infected are dairy workers.

Hey Elder Lez, are you an Epidemiologist?

The more humans it infects, the more opportunity it will have to potentially mutate or combine with regular human flu and fuck us up. Each of those dairy workers is a test tube.

Or if it takes hold in pigs, who are susceptible to human flu., that would be bad news.

An opportune time for the incoming HHS head to declare he will deprioritize infectious diseases as a research focus at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

R22 no

RFK Jr. plans to defund NIAID for the next 8 years so no more influenza centers of excellence or funding for the development of the universal flu vaccine, which FWIW is very close to becoming reality. That said, I don’t think he’ll succeed and DOD might pick up the funding for national security reasons. That said making the situation seem more dire than it is, is not helpful. It’s like the boy who cried wolf, but with public health.

And back to blocking Sylvia Fowler and his fetish for bad biological new. A real life Debbie Downer. What ails you, man?

Elder Lez, I also want to thank you for your substantive, non-alarmist content. Much more helpful and constructive than Salacious B. Crumb's orgasms at finding the next story about end of days.

R26 I've said before in another thread that I am not currently concerned about anyone's risk for H1N1 unless they're a dairy/poultry farmer or live near them. That doesn't mean that the situation doesn't bear close monitoring and getting ahead of because we cannot blithely dismiss the potential for human to human transmission to develop. And the chuckleheads who will be in charge three months from now will most emphatically NOT be doing that.

In short, fuck off.

Oh, what a great idea, R26, block someone who's actually bringing information. You should call the White House. Maybe RFK, Jr, is looking for an unpaid intern.

Sylvia was a scaremonger, R29. Aim higher.

In brief, climb back under your bed and panic quietly. You earned your reputation, you hysteric.

As always, with you, Sylvia it may masquerade as substance, but you lust for what might happen, so long as it's bad.

In short, you are not helping, except to ease your own nervousness.

End of from me. It's such a shame these threads have to be spoilt by the chattering doomsaying of this fool. Can't she just get a therapist with skill?

[quote] End of from me.

Promise?

Elder lez talks a lot, and sounds important, but she lives in a trailer in hurricane prone Florida, there's that.

A woman on Threads said she caught it while in China. Said symptoms were much worse than Covid. If Joe wants to do something before he leaves, stockpile blue states with PPE.

R34 That's Senior Lez, not Elder Lez. Elder Lez lives on Long Island.

Just get some ivermectin and y'all be fine.

Sylvia is correct R34. You have me confused with senior lesbian. I live Lawn Guyland in a small, but fancy condominium apartment with my wife and our cavalier King Charles spaniel.

The three pillars of Post Civil War and post 1965 business domination in order to keep a cheap labor pool:

Keep them sick.

Keep them poor.

Keep them stupid.

Fucking up Healthcare? Keep them sick✅ keep them poor✅

Do it for ALL Republican policy changes!

Start a class war on Student Loan Forgiveness? Keep them stupid✅ keep the poor✅

Sick, stupid people aren’t such great workers.

I would think in debt and avaricious would be more helpful.

But they have to stay employed and work no matter the conditions and if you live in a Right To Work state, you are fucked. Poor people live paycheck to paycheck.

And yes, you are right ElderLez, sick stupid people aren't such great workers, but with the federal minimum wage in 2024 being $7.25 per hour (the same as it has been since 2009) hire TWO of them and let them Hunger Games every day.

Elder Lez lives on Long Island.

That's not my problem bitch, are you Muriel the cunt? You seem to know a lot.

Pardon R42? Who are you addressing?

Lawn Guyland

It sounds like it too, very uppity and know it all, typical NY attitude.