California declares first statewide emergency over bird flu

California declares first statewide emergency over bird flu The declaration comes the same day the first “severe” case was found in a human outside of the state. Emma Anderson Politico

California on Wednesday declared a statewide emergency over bird flu, with Gov. Gavin Newsom warning that “conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property” meant greater efforts were needed to defeat the spread. ...

The declaration comes after months of efforts by one of the nation’s largest milk-producing states to contain the spread largely on dairy farms to the general population, with 34 human cases reported in California since March. More than 600 dairies have detected cases across the state, mostly in the heavily agricultural Central California region.

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