The official declaration will help boost and streamline the state’s response to the contagion.
FILE – Dairy cattle feed at a farm on March 31, 2017, near Vado, N.M. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday, March 25, 2024, that milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu. to farms in southern California, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday to bolster and streamline the state’s response to the virus.
But on Wednesday, the CDC confirmed its first known severe human infection of bird flu in a patient from southwest Louisiana. The patient, who was hospitalized, is over age 65 and has other health complications, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. Despite a swift response — biosecurity measures at farm entrances, the immediate slaughter of potentially infected animals, quarantining of affected farms — the disease has continued to spread, infecting dairy cattle.
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