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CDC URGES DAIRY AND POULTRY WORKERS TO USE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
May 9, 2024
Source: Feed Strategy magazine
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has asked local jurisdictions to make personal protective equipment (PPE) available to workers on dairy and poultry farms and slaughterhouses in response to recent outbreaks of H5N1 in poultry and dairy cattle.
Specifically, CDC asked state health departments to work with their state agriculture department counterparts and partners in communities, such as farmworker organizations, that can help coordinate and facilitate PPE distributions. CDC
Principal Deputy Director Nirav D. Shah recommended states prioritize distribution of PPE to farms with herds in which a cow was confirmed to be infected with H5N1, noting that some states have already distributed PPE to dairy farms. Jurisdictions were asked to use existing PPE stockpiles for this effort.
Although CDC's assessment of the immediate risk to the U.S. public from avian influenza remains low, Shah highlighted the importance of states acting now to protect people with work exposures, who may be at higher risk of infection. CDC has actively engaged with state and local health departments, farmworker organizations and public health veterinarians since first learning about the outbreak of H5N1 in dairy cattle herds.
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