Wastewater detection is showing H5 bird flu all over California: https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/wwd-h5.html

That's suggestive there are far more than the 29 reported California cases - with cases generally remaining mild enough to earn no special attention over routine respiratory infections.

I think it's important not to overstate what this means. Most likely, the kid had some other upper respiratory tract infection with the symptoms coming from that and the H5 may well have been an incidental finding, especially since they have likely already recovered based on the timeframe I'm aware of. One potential theory is exposure to wild bird droppings. Due to the circumstances of the case, we may never find out exactly what the child came in contact with.

Alameda county's original PR: https://health.alamedacountyca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/1...

General information I found (after a -casual- search, not rigorous):

"current public health risk is low", and (EDIT: NOT the current strain) "50% mortality rate WORLDWIDE" (/NOT), and "less than 100 Americans in 2024 known to be infected", "bird to human (not human to human yet) transmission"

- https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html ('situation' report)

- https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/prevention/index.html (prevention)

- https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22401-bird-fl... (mortality - need more detail e.g. healthcare access)

I can see the lines forming at Costco for toilet paper and water already.

We will ignore the obvious solution. End the dairy industry altogether. There’s very little animal milk offers to humans anyways other than whatever the U.S. govt has drummed up through marketing to sell otherwise unsellable oversupply.

It’s an ecological disaster, a GHG disaster, a health disaster, an allergen disaster, a biohazard, and a complete and utter moral and ethical disaster.

There’s nothing animal milk offers that we don’t have a dozen alternatives for already.