Posted on 09/06/2024 9:25:06 PM PDT by blueplum
Cows in California have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and are now in quarantine, according to the state's Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA).
California hosts a fifth of the nation's dairy cows, and it is the number one producer of milk, butter, and ice cream, and the number two producer of cheese and yogurt in the US.
The current infections of HPAI among cattle in the US started in March, when a 'mysterious' illness broke out among dairy cows in Texas...These cows were the first in the world to officially test positive for the bird flu virus...
Since March, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that 197 cattle in total have tested positive for bird flu in no less than 14 states...
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
It's been speculated that spread of the virus from cow to cow has been thru contaminated milking equipment. There's no evidence of B3.13 in wild or domestic bird flocks in California. There are also no cases of cow to human transfer in California but authorities are not disclosing which 3 Central Valley dairy farms are under quarantine. The quarantine is expected to disrupt milk production for several weeks.
Remember how the first Covid tests were “oopsie-doo”, accidentally sent out supposedly contaminated with exactly what they said they were trying to test for?
That could sure explain nearly the exact same findings from CA to CO.
Pasteurization kills Avian Flu.
I don’t see how this is a serious problem.
Price of milk right before the election?
Most dairy farms sell their milk raw and it’s trucked to a processing facility. So everything the raw milk comes in contact with from the tanker truck on down the line would become contaminated.
The virus causes the milk to thicken and turn yellow. Pasturizing it won’t turn it back to white, which makes the milk unmarketable.
If only a few cows are affected they can be quarantined out and not affect profit margins much, but if a majority or the entire herd gets it all the cows all have to be quarantined and there goes your income for a month.
It’s already in the milk supply...
But the most common method of pasteurization kills it so what was found in store milk was just the virus particles after it was killed.
“In related news, another new preprint study from researchers at Ohio State University, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and the University of Illinois shows H5N1 avian flu RNA, but not live virus, in pasteurized retail milk.
The study found evidence of H5N1 viral nucleic acid in 36.3% of samples (61 of 168) from pasteurized milk bought from retail stores across the United States.
“None of the retail milk samples included in this study contained viable, infectious A(H5N1) virus per in vitro and in vivo assays, which provides evidence that pasteurization is sufficient for inactivation of pathogens in the commercial milk supply,” the authors wrote.”
I switched to almond milk a few months ago. It has more calcium than cow’s milk and tastes better iMHO.
Apparently it’s already in 36% of samples taken at retail sales for one of the studies that means mixing of that yellow milk with enough white milk must drown it out. I drink a gallon a week of milk I love having both milk genes the irony is my pale redheaded wife doesn’t have the both genes she lost the ability to drink milk when she quit drinking it for 6 months for health reasons her other gene switched off. You must carry both for lifetime lactose tolerance. I’m Celtic and indigenous people I know my Celtic roots is the source of my genes the DNA testing confirmed that gets all butthurt literally when I eat ice cream and she gives in and has some. I’m not worried in the least first high temp pasteurization works and so will the box of tamiflu I have in my bed kit should it make a break through. Look up I posted a link to the studies showing RNA in the milk supply and the effects of pasteurization.
Avian Flu has been with us forever; we’ve always survived it.
Worry about mosquitoes; there’s not much we can do about those, either - and yet, as a human race, we’ve always survived.
“I don’t see how this is a serious problem.”
The Regime needs to brainwash voters into a state of fear. So far this week, we’ve been accosted by the media with bird flu, covid, monkey pox, and polio—blah, blah, blah….must have everyone afraid to eat, leave their homes or mingle with others. Therefore everyone must vote by mail.
There seem to be some people on FR who want to throw us into a state of fear, too.
A lot of illegals working in the dairy industry...
March 2024 : () ...In March, in a congressional hearing, Congressman Ben Cline asked U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack about the joint research conducted by the USDA in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This research includes at least $1 million in public money sent to the CCP for bird flu gain-of-function studies....
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Here We Go Again: Gretchen Whitmer admin issues emergency executive order over avian influenza
THE MIDWESTERNER ^ | 5-6-24 | THE MIDWESTERNER STAFF
Posted on 5/7/2024, 9:30:59 AM by dynachrome
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration has declared an “extraordinary animal health emergency” and imposed “the most comprehensive measures in the country” to combat highly pathogenic avian influenza.
“Producers must immediately implement robust biosecurity practices and create emergency preparedness plans and this order starts to address these on-farm risks,” Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Director Tim Boring said statement last week.
Those measures include a biosecurity manager for every farm, a secure perimeter around poultry, cleaning and disinfection for people and vehicles, a log of all people and vehicles that enter farms, isolation of lactating cows until 30 days after the last HPAI case, and isolation of poultry “until such a time there are no new cases of HPAI in domestic poultry in the State of Michigan for at least 30 consecutive days.”...
I would really appreciate it if they would stop poisoning our food supply.
>> The virus causes the milk to thicken and turn yellow
Custard!!!
Where are my marketing people?
Don't mess with my yogurt!
When Covid hit-—BUREAUCRATS in DC were determining “what Businesses were “ESSENTIAL”.
SOME TOTAL IDIOTS declared that the companies that produce CONTAINERS FOR MILK-—GALLON/ 1/2 GALLON/ Quarts WAS NOT ESSENTIAL-—so they shut them down .
NO containers meant that the milk processors could not do their work.
IMMEDIATELY-—Dairy farmers were feeding milk to hogs, etc. Then they were throwing it out onto their fields.
2 MULTI-GENERATIONAL FAMILY FARMS about 30 miles south of where I live took ALL their cows to the livestock auction on the same day.
610 cows went to slaughter & it wiped out these 2 farms.
The vet who works those auctions is my mobile animal vet.
She has been a mobile vet for over 35 years. She is pretty stoic.
SHE TOLD ME SHE STOOD THERE & CRIED.
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