HPAI Confirmed Cases in Livestock | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
www.aphis.usda.gov

Rant: Legacy media sucks shit. I’m not an epidemiologist and I need context but 74% seems really fucking bad to me.

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I googled but only Twitter and Bluesky have info. The page is at usda.gov and the data stuff doesn’t load for me. There’s a “Download Data” link at the top if you have the same problem.

I based my headline on this Bluesky post.

H5N1 Bird Flu Spreads Rapidly Through California Dairy Herds

The USDA has confirmed that five more dairy herds in California are infected, bringing the total number to 732.

As of now, 74% of the state’s dairy herds have tested positive for the virus.

[Bluesky link deleted]

  • splinter@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Whoever posted this on Bluesky is ludicrously incorrect. There are around 732 affected herds in California, but California has 11,000 herds. That’s 6.65%.

    Also, the presentation is highly misleading. Only one cow in a herd needs to be infected with H5N1 for the herd to be “affected”. There are 1.75 million cattle in California. As little as 0.04% of California’s cattle stock could be affected.

    Further, H5N1 doesn’t cause serious illness in cows, just 7-10 days of minor symptoms. We don’t even know that cows can spread it to each other.