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1 of 2 | The USDA said connected Wednesday that nan "novel activity of H5N1 betwixt chaotic birds and dairy cows" requires further testing and much action. The section said it's moving pinch different national agencies to protect nan U.S. livestock manufacture from nan H5N1 vertebrate flu threat. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo
April 24 (UPI) -- The Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it's moving pinch different national agencies to protect nan U.S. livestock manufacture from nan H5N1 vertebrate flu threat. A national bid will create captious baseline accusation to limit nan microorganism spread.
So far, nan USDA said, nary changes to nan microorganism person been recovered that would make it transmissible to humans and betwixt people.
"While cases among humans successful nonstop interaction pinch infected animals are possible, our partners astatine nan U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) judge that nan existent consequence to nan nationalist remains low," nan USDA said successful a Wednesday statement.
USDA said, "The novel movement of H5N1 betwixt chaotic birds and dairy cows requires further testing and clip to create a captious knowing to support immoderate early courses of action."
USDA added that it "has identified dispersed betwixt cows wrong nan aforesaid herd, dispersed from cows to poultry, dispersed betwixt dairies associated pinch cattle movements, and cows without objective signs that person tested positive. On April 16, APHIS microbiologists identified a displacement successful an H5N1 sample from a cattle successful Kansas that could bespeak that nan microorganism has an adjustment to mammals."
According to USDA, nan Centers for Disease Control has conducted further study connected that and it did not alteration their wide consequence appraisal for nan wide public. That's because what was observed has been seen earlier successful different mammalian infections and "does not effect viral transmission."
The USDA said opening April 29 interstate activity of dairy cattle will require a antagonistic trial for influenza A microorganism and owners of cattle testing affirmative will person to supply "epidemiological information, including animal activity tracing."
The tests will beryllium instantly required for lactating cattle. The testing requirements for different classes of dairy cattle will beryllium based connected technological factors connected nan microorganism and nan evolving consequence profile, according to nan USDA.
Mandatory reporting besides will beryllium required erstwhile laboratories and authorities veterinarians get affirmative influenza A nucleic acerb discovery results. The aforesaid mandatory reporting will use to affirmative influenza A serology diagnostic results successful livestock.
Due to accelerated dispersed of nan H5N1 virus successful April, a Texas poultry installation stopped accumulation and was ordered to cull 1.6 cardinal laying hens and 337,000 pullets -- aliases young female chickens- - astatine Cal-Maine's Parmer County installation adjacent nan New Mexico border.
In July, a bird flu outbreak deed nan Welsh coastline, sidesplitting hundreds of seabirds successful 1 of Britain's astir important seabird habitats.
In February, Harvard Law schoolhouse interrogator professor Ann Linder and New York University professor Dale Jamieson warned nan U.S. had "blind spots" successful strategies to woody pinch threats for illustration vertebrate flu.
The researchers said nan United States originates much zoonotic diseases than immoderate different federation successful nan world.
