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Dairy Cows Must Be Tested for Bird Flu Before Moving Between States: USDA
The Epoch Times ^ | 4/24/24 | Zachary Stieber

Posted on 04/24/2024 3:04:49 PM PDT by CFW

Dairy cows cannot be moved between states without testing for the highly pathogenic avian influenza, U.S. officials announced on April 24.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a federal order that says “prior to interstate movement, dairy cattle are required to receive a negative test for Influenza A virus.” A strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza A, H5N1, has been spreading across the country since first being detected in cows in March. The influenza is commonly known as the bird flu.

At this point, no beef cattle are known to have been infected with the virus.

The order, which takes effect on April 29, covers lactating dairy cattle.

Testing requirements for other dairy cows “will be based on scientific factors concerning the virus and its evolving risk profile,” the USDA said.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beef; birdflu; china; food; government; h5n1; influenzaa; usda
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The government plans to control us by controlling the food and starving us. Also, protein is important for brain development and we certainly can't have that!

Dairy Cows Must Be Tested for Bird Flu Before Moving Between States: USDA

1 posted on 04/24/2024 3:04:49 PM PDT by CFW
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Another virus exported to here from Chicomland.


2 posted on 04/24/2024 3:06:13 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Bird Flu Passport for Cows ,LOL


3 posted on 04/24/2024 3:06:27 PM PDT by butlerweave
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From the article:

Authorities say the risk to the public is low and testing of the flu samples has uncovered no signs that the virus has changed to make it more transmissible to people or among people.

Bird flu cases have rarely appeared among humans in the United States but hundreds have been confirmed worldwide since 2003. Through April 1, out of 889 cases across 23 countries, 463 resulted in death, according to the World Health Organization.

Jeremy Farrar, the organization’s chief scientist, said recently the spread to ruminants raised concerns that the virus could develop the ability to transmit between humans.
If that happens, then it’s crucial to quickly respond with vaccines, testing, and treatments, he said.

Several vaccines against H5N1 have already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but manufacturers would need to receive fresh clearance for updated formulations, an agency spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.

The manufacturers, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, and CSL Seqirus said in statements they are monitoring avian flu and stand ready to develop avian influenza vaccines as needed.

There have so far been few deaths among cows that tested positive for the influenza, according to the USDA. Some have already been cleared and started producing milk again for commercial consumption.


4 posted on 04/24/2024 3:06:38 PM PDT by CFW
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Anything Dairy, beaf, chicken, grains, and farm related...

These folks sure have a thing for mass starvation.


5 posted on 04/24/2024 3:09:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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This is gonna put a damper on all those traveling dairies out there


6 posted on 04/24/2024 3:10:58 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The road to tyranny is paved with compliance )
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What if the cattle simply walked in a pasture from New Mexico to Arizona? Who will be in the field to test them?


7 posted on 04/24/2024 3:14:23 PM PDT by packagingguy
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The idea is to make farming (AKA food production) so expensive it is impossible to continue.

The end of food is the end of the human race.

Win-win, for the mass-murdering, billionaire, globalist psychopaths.


8 posted on 04/24/2024 3:17:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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The Chinese are infecting the entire wild bird population? It comes from wild birds who feed on the same grain the cows eat.
And the virus samples they are finding are dead, not active.


9 posted on 04/24/2024 3:22:28 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4233466/posts

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10 posted on 04/24/2024 3:23:15 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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These despicable bastards are trying to murder us all and what’s left control


11 posted on 04/24/2024 3:25:08 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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They hate farmers because farmers are regular people and usually conservatives.

They want to replace farming with tech. Lab grown meat and vertical indoor grow veggies. Neither has a small carbon footprint due to the infrastructure required and energy consumed but it’s never really been about carbon or the planet or climate change.

It’s all about control/money being funneled and consolidated upwards.


12 posted on 04/24/2024 3:30:09 PM PDT by Pollard ( )
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I am hearing the virus is actually spreading via the food. Where they are chopping up infected animals and then turning it into food for livestock. I am sure that gets to move across state lines with no limitations at all.


13 posted on 04/24/2024 3:32:59 PM PDT by Revel
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They want a total monopoly on everything and must make independent entrepreneurs of any kind extinct.


14 posted on 04/24/2024 3:33:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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Once the flying pigs teach the cows how to fly across state lines they will need to call in air assets to enfoece the law.


15 posted on 04/24/2024 3:36:02 PM PDT by Iron Munro (When Islam dominates democracy, freedom and non-Islamic people die)
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Mad cows thinking they’re birds.


16 posted on 04/24/2024 4:17:53 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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"Dairy Cows Must Be Tested for Bird Flu Before Moving Between States: USDA"

I can just imagine the image of a cow sitting next to chicken in the waiting room of a vet's office. I wonder what they would be chit-chatting about.
17 posted on 04/24/2024 5:27:48 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: kaktuskid

Poultry trade.


18 posted on 04/24/2024 5:34:31 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Will birds be tested for Mad Cow disease too?


19 posted on 04/24/2024 5:34:51 PM PDT by bigbob
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Unfortunately, If you have any shred of sanity and intelligence, it’s really unbearable to be living in this world right now


20 posted on 04/24/2024 5:42:39 PM PDT by dkGba
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