Politico May 6, 2024
CDC WANTS MORE AVIAN FLU DATA — State agriculture officials and the dairy industry are telling public health officials they don’t want federal CDC researchers on farms, complicating efforts to track and contain an avian flu virus that’s sickened cows across the country, POLITICO’s Meredith Lee Hill, David Lim and Marcia Brown report.
“It’s overreach. … They need to back off,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, a former rodeo cowboy who is a possible pick to lead the USDA if Donald Trump wins the presidential election, said in an interview.
Texas, the first state where the bird flu virus was detected, hasn’t invited the CDC to conduct epidemiological field studies, even though its health department is open to the research,...
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