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Texas farmer catches bird flu from a cow

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Like clockwork, as we head into another election season, the medical establishment and the mainstream media are sounding the alarm on another potential pandemic:  the bird flu.

Just days after word that bird flu had spread to cows, word broke that two individuals in Texas had been infected.

— The Gateway Pundit

The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) and United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) received confirmation of the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in diagnostic samples from two Texas and two Kansas dairies.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), TAHC, Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL), and dairy veterinarians, along with other partners, are working closely to evaluate symptoms among primarily older dairy cows in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico, of decreased lactation, low appetite, and other clinical signs. Diagnostic samples of unpasteurized milk from affected cattle collected from two dairy farms in Kansas and one in Texas, as well as an oropharyngeal swab from another dairy in Texas, were confirmed HPAI positive on March 25, 2024.

Additional testing was conducted after dairies reported finding deceased wild birds on their properties. The HPAI virus detections in Texas may have been introduced by wild birds. Initial testing by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories has not found changes to the virus that would make it more transmissible to humans, which would indicate that the current risk to the public remains low.

— Texas Animal Health Commission

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