Federal officials are scrambling to track the virus. But they’ve struggled to gain access to farms to collect data.
The federal government will spend millions to stem the spread of avian influenza in the nation’s dairy herds to keep the virus from mutating and spreading among humans, officials said Friday.
The virus is currently circulating within poultry flocks and dairy cattle, but the virus’ recent jump to dairy cows has alarmed experts who fear it could more easily infect humans the longer it spreads among animals. Public health officials at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plan to spend millions to boost testing and tracing efforts among workers and others exposed to the virus.
“The challenge we’re already facing is going to get worse with this barrier between federal and state and local and farms,” Bright said. “Without the right incentives to take care of the farmers, and the workers on the farms and in the factories processing milk, we’re actually incentivizing this opaqueness.”
Hoeven said he’d have to see any final request before assessing whether such a funding package could clear Congress at this time, given ongoing fights over spending. But he said the federal government needed to step up its response in the meantime to avoid similar mistakes it made in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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