Governor Newsom takes proactive action to strengthen robust state response to Bird Flu

Ongoing efforts to forestall unfold and severe an infection

California has mobilized a complete cross-agency response to Hen Flu in dairy cattle and poultry farms to reduce farm employee exposures, scale back uncooked dairy product contamination, and mitigate the unfold of the virus. The state has enlisted native, state, and federal authorities technical and operational experience to assist all aspects of the response; labored to teach the general public, well being professionals, employers, and staff on prevention and management measures to cut back the danger of publicity to Hen Flu; supplied complete info for employers and staff on private protecting tools (PPE) necessities; and distributed tens of millions of items of PPE to high-risk staff at dairy farms. 

By means of coordinated public consciousness efforts between the California Division of Public Well being (CDPH), the California Division of Meals and Agriculture (CDFA), California Workplace of Emergency Companies (CalOES), and different businesses, the state is main a cross-agency response that features well timed public updates, multilingual outreach to dairy and poultry staff, focused social media efforts to advertise preventive practices, on-line and printed sources for the general public, and media interviews to maintain Californians knowledgeable. Moreover, the state is guaranteeing that agriculture staff have entry to extra doses of seasonal flu vaccine from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) to cut back concurrent flu dangers.

Officers have additionally been working in shut collaboration with the Facilities for Illness Management, the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration, the U.S.  Division of Agriculture, and native well being and agricultural officers, as a part of a whole-of-government effort to coordinate, implement, and guarantee well timed surveillance and investigation of potential instances of Hen Flu.