Eric Topol April 24, 2024
Updates from a joint USDA, CDC, FDA Joint Briefing Session Today
After weeks of being in the dark, it was good to see these 3 public agencies come together this morning to give a closed briefing (yes, open would have been better) and answer key questions about avian flu spread among cattle.
Here are the key points:
Confirmation of H5N1 infected dairy cattle herds in 8 states. But the FDA report yesterday of commerical milk PCR positivity strongly supports that the cattle spread is far wider than these 8 states. Important to emphasize that (PCR) is testing for remnants of virus, not live virus, which would be unlikely with pasteurization. Other tests, assessing potential evidence for any live...
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