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Topic: CDC guidance fairs

Posted By: Pixie
Subject: CDC guidance fairs
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2024 at 4:16pm

https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/guidance-help-prevent-spread-flu-agricultural-fairs.html#:~:text=CDC%20offers%20guidance%20to%20fair%20exhibitors&text=Plan%20to%20keep%20pigs%2C%20poultry,items%20into%20the%20animal%20areas. - CDC Issues Updated Guidance to Help Prevent Spread of Flu at Agricultural Fairs | NCIRD | CDC

Don’t take toys, pacifiers, cups, bottles, strollers, or similar items into the animal areas.
Don’t eat, drink, or touch, or put anything in your mouth or touch your eyes while in animal areas (barns, show arenas).

Wash your hands often with soap and running water after touching animals, animal associated equipment, or their environments (like a barn or enclosure). If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

Where possible, avoid direct contact with pigs, poultry, cattle, and other animals that look or act ill. (Direct physical contact with the animal includes touching, holding, kissing, being bitten, licked, and scratched.)
Another article went as far to say avoid all animal barns particularly the poultry.

Thank God I grew up in a time when going to the fair was carefree and the only worry was you eat too much. The innocence of living seems dimmed…

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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2024 at 9:57pm

I think at that kind of fair eye eyeprotection/mouth/nosemasks would be wise..."farmer only"...So for that matter it might be wise to rethink the basic idea of that kind of country fairs.

It always was a risk for mixing human and animal diseases. Today there are a lot of diseases KNOWN to be spreading. It may be impossible to control already...

A major difference between CoViD and flu is "flu is self limiting". Once you may have had H5N1 -in a mild form- it may offer protection ?

On the other hand-if every body now thinks building "natural immunity" against H5N1-with limited risks of severe disease-H5N1 may get more dangerous...

Also co-infections (CoViD) may make matters worse...

So-if I would go to that kind of fairs untill CoViD started- for 2024 I may also decide NOT to go...too much risks..(and as far as I remember too much fat food...Do they still frey pig ears ?)

Posted By: Pixie
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2024 at 9:04am

https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/16/bird-flu-dairy-cattle-biosecurity-county-fairs/ - Bird flu outbreak at county fair time: precautions in the dairy barns | STAT

Despite bird flu anxiety in the dairy barn, a yearly tradition carries on at an Iowa county fair.

Hence the lactating cow question. “The simplest solution to reduce that risk in a drastic way is just not to have lactating dairy cows at exhibitions or shows,” said Joe Armstrong, a cattle veterinarian at the University of Minnesota Extension.

That’s the route https://www.michigan.gov/mdard/-/media/Project/Websites/mdard/documents/general/emergency/HPAI-FAQ-Amended-Order-and-Fairs.pdf -

Posted By: Pixie
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2024 at 3:45pm

https://m.startribune.com/minnesota-state-fair-no-dairy-cow-calf-miracle-birth-bird-flu/600386149/?clmob=y&c=n - https://m.startribune.com/minnesota-state-fair-no-dairy-cow-calf-miracle-birth-bird-flu/600386149/?clmob=y&c=n

According to a multiple state agricultural industry officials, fair organizers are excluding birthing cows and newborn calves from the popular Miracle of Birth exhibit this year as a precaution with the virus continuing to spread to mammals, including dairy cattle. The exhibit will still showcase dairy cow-calf pairs, but the calves will be weaned, and the cows will be dry.

"There will still be cute little calves and cows," said Kelly Andrews, executive director of the Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association, one of the the exhibit's organizers. "They just won't be lactating [cows]."

Posted By: Pixie
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2024 at 1:13pm

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/experts-consider-h5n1-avian-flu-unknowns-state-fairs-loom - Experts consider H5N1 avian flu unknowns as state fairs loom | CIDRAP we do at fairs kind of violates every tenet of biosecurity that we preach, and we do it on public display, and we charge the public,” Bowman told CIDRAP News. “As great as fairs are for agricultural education, they create situations with multiple species from different farms housed in one spot.”