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Colorado - Bird flu in mammals and livestock 2023-2024
More cows are getting avian flu in Colorado, officials are trying to stop it from spreading to humans
By John Daley
·Jun. 21, 2024, 6:20 pm
Colorado is seeing a rising number of highly pathogenic avian flu cases in cows. State officials told CPR Friday they’re working with the dairy industry to curb the spread.
The first case in dairy cows in the state was in April. Since then, the state has reported another 18 cases. Colorado recorded 15 just this month, adding six cases Friday to a state website tracking positive cases in dairy cows.
All confirmed cases have been in northeast Colorado.
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Currently, there have been a total of 10 Colorado livestock herds, mostly dairy milking cows, affected during the last 30 days as of the middle of this week.
From Post #18: "Currently, there have been a total of 10 Colorado livestock herds, mostly dairy milking cows, affected during the last 30 days as of the middle of this week, according to a website from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.".
Colorado now has the worst outbreak of bird flu among dairy cattle in the country
The state has seen nearly one-quarter of its herds affected, most in the past month
John Ingold
3:38 AM MDT on Jul 2, 2024
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As of Monday evening, Colorado had identified 26 herds with cases of avian influenza. Of those, 22 were identified within the past month and the herds are still in quarantine. Four other cases were identified earlier and quarantines have since been lifted.
All affected herds are in the northeastern part of the state.
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Dr. Maggie Baldwin, the state veterinarian, said Colorado agriculture and health officials are working closely with dairies to identify cases of the virus and to try to prevent its spread.
“This is just a virus that likes to hang around,” she said. “It’s really hard to mitigate once it’s in a sustained population. …
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Baldwin said some of the affected cattle in Colorado are in what are known as “closed herds” — meaning there is no movement of cattle in and out, making it impossible for the virus to have spread to that herd through the introduction of an infected cow. U.S. agriculture officials found something similar with several herds in Michigan.
Focus has now turned to the potential for what is called fomite transmission...
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Following federal guidance, the state is only testing people who have flu-like symptoms. Scott Bookman, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s senior director for public health readiness and response, said the state has tested fewer than a dozen people. All those tests have come back negative.
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from the article:
"“Where we need to ramp up the level of concern in the population is when we see those dairy farm workers get infected and spread it to their families,” she said.
Still, she said, now is the time for public health agencies to make sure their testing and disease-monitoring systems are running smoothly, so that they can detect if the current bird flu outbreaks in livestock evolve into a threat to humans.
“As a general person right now, I don’t think the level of concern should be that high,” she said. “But for public health, for people working in the field of infectious disease, this is exactly what we need to be working on right now.”
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