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

Ongoing efforts to stop unfold and severe an infection

California has mobilized a complete cross-agency response to Chook Flu in dairy cattle and poultry farms to reduce farm employee exposures, cut 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 help all aspects of the response; labored to coach the general public, well being professionals, employers, and employees on prevention and management measures to scale back the danger of publicity to Chook Flu; offered complete data for employers and employees on private protecting gear (PPE) necessities; and distributed thousands and thousands of items of PPE to high-risk employees at dairy farms. 

By way 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 Providers (CalOES), and different companies, the state is main a cross-agency response that features well timed public updates, multilingual outreach to dairy and poultry employees, focused social media efforts to advertise preventive practices, on-line and printed assets for the general public, and media interviews to maintain Californians knowledgeable. Moreover, the state is making certain that agriculture employees have entry to further doses of seasonal flu vaccine from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) to scale 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 Chook Flu.