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Through their back-and-forth exchanges, Detlefsen learned about Gould syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1992965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman and man lean over a broadly smiling child who lays in a hospital bed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary and Jeff Detlefsen pose for a photo with their daughter Hannah on May 22, 2024, during a visit to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hannah was 6 months old when she was finally diagnosed by Douglas Gould, a UCSF geneticist who discovered the disease 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why this syndrome hadn’t been identified earlier is because it’s highly variable,” Gould said in an interview with KQED. The disease presentation includes seizures, cataracts, and kidney issues. Today, Gould estimates approximately 500 Americans suffer from the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He especially feels for young parents who had to figure out the disease on their own. “Usually, they are just starting to grow their families,” he said. “And in addition to having these new challenges, they’re going to the literature to learn about the disease and educating their doctors — who may or may not be that receptive to learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Gould and other experts at UCSF created the first center in the world focused on studying and treating patients with Gould syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now you’ve got teams of doctors who see 100 patients instead of just one, and they become experts,” Gould said. “It improves patient care and helps us on the research side to better understand the disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a center like this will also raise public awareness of the disease, said Scott Earley, the director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Signaling in the Cardiovascular System at the University of Nevada, Reno, who studies Gould syndrome. “It may turn out that there are many more people affected by this disease than we currently know,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1992960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A standing woman smiles down at a smiling child who sits in what appears to be a stroller outdoors in a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Detlefsen spends time with her daughter Hannah, 7, at Magical Bridge Playground, an accessible playground, in Redwood City on May 21, 2024, during a Bay Area visit to care providers for Hannah at Stanford and UCSF hospitals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a pediatric neurologist at UCSF, Rachel Vassar, who co-founded the new center, has treated 10 patients with the rare disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the many questions that parents always ask me is ‘What will the future look like?’ and we can’t yet say with certainty,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By having a centralized facility, experts can now work together to collect and pool clinical data, Vassar said. “That’s really the only way that we can move the field forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, genetic sequencing can help doctors confirm a diagnosis when they suspect Gould syndrome. But there is still no cure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all rare diseases, we don’t have a large randomized control trial to tell us exactly which medications will help them get better,” Vassar said. For now, doctors rely on patient feedback. But Vassar is hopeful that future gene therapies developed by scientists at the new center may allow physicians to treat the condition even as early as gestation.[aside label='Related Articles' tag='health']Hannah is now seven years old. She cannot talk or walk. Every day, she takes more than 30 medications on top of her routine therapies, such as breathing and stretching exercises. She wakes every two hours at night and is at risk for strokes at all times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a thing in her life that’s not affected by this syndrome. It affects every part and every minute of every day of her life and our life, and there’s really no getting around it,” Detlefsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of her condition, Hannah needs care around the clock. Her mother has given up a full-time job to look after her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be lying to say that it gets easier,” Detlefsen said. “As a parent, to know you’re probably going to outlive your child is not something that you ever want to even come to terms with. And I realize how precious our time is with her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detlefsen is excited about what the center can do for future kids and for Hannah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s not going to magically heal, and I’m realistic about that. But the hope is that we can find ways to keep her more comfortable and to enjoy her life as best as she can, given the struggles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Hannah Detlefsen was born in 2017, her parents celebrated a healthy 8-pound baby. But in the ensuing months, they began to grapple with a very different truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah’s father, Jeffrey Detlefsen, saw something unusual while cradling his newborn. “It was just a few days before her two-month checkup, and I noticed there was no pupil in her right eye,” he said. “It was just this blue, cloudy iris.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the beginning of the family’s medical odyssey. First, an eye specialist suggested Hannah had retinoblastoma, a rare type of eye cancer that can be life-threatening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty traumatic,” Detlefsen said. It was the first time he and his wife had to bring a child to an emergency room. “We left that night thinking she had cancer of the eye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three weeks later, a different specialist offered a potentially worse prognosis: Gould syndrome, a rare genetic disease that causes brain abnormalities and affects other organs, including the eyes, the brain and the kidneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took two-and-a-half to three weeks to get in for an MRI — the longest two weeks of our lives,” Detlefsen said. The MRI showed that Hannah missed a big portion of her brain matter important for mental function. They also suspected that Hannah had had a stroke in utero that left lasting brain damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desperate for answers, Detlefsen frantically searched the internet. He found a mother in South Africa whose son had a similar condition to Hannah. Through their back-and-forth exchanges, Detlefsen learned about Gould syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1992965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman and man lean over a broadly smiling child who lays in a hospital bed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240522-GouldSyndrome-14-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary and Jeff Detlefsen pose for a photo with their daughter Hannah on May 22, 2024, during a visit to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hannah was 6 months old when she was finally diagnosed by Douglas Gould, a UCSF geneticist who discovered the disease 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why this syndrome hadn’t been identified earlier is because it’s highly variable,” Gould said in an interview with KQED. The disease presentation includes seizures, cataracts, and kidney issues. Today, Gould estimates approximately 500 Americans suffer from the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He especially feels for young parents who had to figure out the disease on their own. “Usually, they are just starting to grow their families,” he said. “And in addition to having these new challenges, they’re going to the literature to learn about the disease and educating their doctors — who may or may not be that receptive to learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Gould and other experts at UCSF created the first center in the world focused on studying and treating patients with Gould syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now you’ve got teams of doctors who see 100 patients instead of just one, and they become experts,” Gould said. “It improves patient care and helps us on the research side to better understand the disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having a center like this will also raise public awareness of the disease, said Scott Earley, the director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Signaling in the Cardiovascular System at the University of Nevada, Reno, who studies Gould syndrome. “It may turn out that there are many more people affected by this disease than we currently know,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1992960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A standing woman smiles down at a smiling child who sits in what appears to be a stroller outdoors in a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240521-GouldSyndrome-20-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Detlefsen spends time with her daughter Hannah, 7, at Magical Bridge Playground, an accessible playground, in Redwood City on May 21, 2024, during a Bay Area visit to care providers for Hannah at Stanford and UCSF hospitals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a pediatric neurologist at UCSF, Rachel Vassar, who co-founded the new center, has treated 10 patients with the rare disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the many questions that parents always ask me is ‘What will the future look like?’ and we can’t yet say with certainty,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By having a centralized facility, experts can now work together to collect and pool clinical data, Vassar said. “That’s really the only way that we can move the field forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, genetic sequencing can help doctors confirm a diagnosis when they suspect Gould syndrome. 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"content": "\u003cp>Emaciated brown pelicans are washing up on California shores in the hundreds. State officials and researchers aren’t sure why, but they think it could be weather-related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s working hypothesis is that this situation, similar to what happened in 2022 when nearly 800 starving pelicans were rescued, was likely caused by late spring storms hitting the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The waters were incredibly choppy, it was very windy, visibility was poor,” said Tim Daly, spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “Our strongest belief at this point is that the pelicans were simply having trouble reaching the fish that were below the surface.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there are plenty of fish and noted that anchovies are particularly abundant this year. The pelicans just can’t find them in the murky water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey Bay is a particular hotspot in the state’s rescue effort. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.spcamc.org/programs-resources/wildlife-rescue-rehabilitation/wildlife-rescue.html\">Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center\u003c/a> at the SPCA of Monterey County has taken in more than 100 famished birds over the past month. Staff there have dedicated two outdoor enclosures to the pelicans and converted a staff bathroom into a heated recovery room for birds that can’t regulate their body temperature. Rescue calls started coming in on April 19 and have not yet stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ciera Duits-Cavanaugh, manager of the wildlife center, said the birds are arriving at half the weight they should be and that most rescues are happening on piers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1992901\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992901\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing blue gloves takes a blood sample from a leathery foot of a bird.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildlife technicians at SPCA of Monterey County take a blood sample from the foot of a pelican. Like most of the rescued birds, the sample revealed the bird was anemic. \u003ccite>(Alix Soliman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[The birds are] targeting places where there’s easy food, so boats that are off-loading fish onto docks, restaurants — anywhere that they can get a hand-out,” Duits-Cavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cory Utter, the senior wildlife technician at the wildlife center, said they likely are not saving all the pelicans because most people can’t tell if a bird is struggling. There is one sure sign, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can walk right up to it, and it doesn’t seem bothered by you, then there’s probably something wrong,” Utter said. Officials recommend people call local wildlife centers if that happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a mom and her young son reported a weak-looking pelican drooping its beak into a tide pool at Asilomar State Beach in Monterey County. Two SPCA volunteers crouched down on the rocks, scooped up the bird, and placed it in a dog crate. The pelican didn’t resist. After a short drive back to the wildlife center, the volunteers pulled out the crate. The bird’s eyes were open, but its head was cocked to one side, and it was motionless. It had died in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Storms may be to blame\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Duerr, director of Research and veterinary science at International Bird Rescue, said the explanation that early spring storms limit the bird’s ability to find food makes sense, especially since they’ve tested dead pelicans and ruled out avian flu as a possible cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, the visibility and catchability of fish can be an issue for them because they don’t dive very deep — even the biggest brown pelican can only grab fish about 6 feet deep,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1992900\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut.jpg\" alt=\"White and blue birds with long beaks stand on colorful rugs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelicans struggling to regulate their body temperature rest in a warming room at the SPCA Monterey County, between 75–80 degrees Fahrenheit. \u003ccite>(Alix Soliman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About one-third to a half of the starving pelicans arriving at rescue centers were injured, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that brown pelicans take more risks in their feeding — more likely to go after fishing gear and that sort of stuff — when they’re nutritionally stressed,” Duerr said. “A desperate, hungry pelican can get into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an odd weather event in 2010, she said, they were found landing in people’s yards and snatching food off of hot barbecue grills.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pelicans back from the brink\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California brown pelicans \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/000/california-brown-pelican.htm#:~:text=In%20the%201960s%20and%201970s,the%20sea%20as%20the%20cause.\">almost went extinct\u003c/a> in the 1970s. Researchers found that the toxic chemical DDT entered coastal waters, where it was absorbed by the fish pelicans eat. The chemical changed the calcium metabolism in the birds’ bodies, which made them lay eggs with shells too fragile to withstand the weight of incubation. After DDT was banned, the pelicans recovered and were removed from the endangered species list in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1992713 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240510-SICK-PELICANS-MD-10-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']Brown pelicans’ largest breeding colonies are in the Channel Islands and Baja California, Mexico. Nesting season peaks in March and April, and newborns typically arrive in the Bay Area around May. But Duerr said most of the starving pelicans she’s seeing are older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Channel Islands colony, we know, has done a lot of chick abandonment, so there probably won’t be any fledglings arriving,” Duerr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Anderson is a retired professor from UC Davis who has studied brown pelicans for over 50 years and helped prevent their extinction. He’s planning to check on the Baja colony this month, but he said he’s not optimistic after seeing how they fared earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The breeding birds in the Gulf of California are failing miserably,” Anderson said. “Where there would be 20-30,000 nests, this year there were way less than 1000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1992902\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-07_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-07_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-07_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-07_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-07_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-07_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-07_qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nia Newcombe (left) with SPCA volunteers Nancy Cunningham and Philip Johnson after scooping up a starving pelican at Asilomar State Beach. The pelican did not survive. \u003ccite>(Alix Soliman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anderson said the Baja population declined in 2014 during the marine heat wave scientists called “the blob” and has not really recovered since. He also said the pelican population tends to follow the El Niño and La Niña sea surface temperature cycles — doing worse with warm El Niño conditions and better with cold La Niña conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California experienced a rare three-year run of La Niña from 2020 to 2023 before El Niño in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml\">predicts\u003c/a> we’ll enter neutral conditions soon and may see La Niña emerge this summer. “The surface fish like anchovies, sardines seem to be more available to surface-feeding seabirds during La Niña conditions,” Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1992898\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-04_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Six brown and white birds stand inside a fence.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-04_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-04_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-04_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-04_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-04_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-04_qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scraggly birds flap their wings in the breeze and preen their feathers in an enclosure at the SPCA of Monterey County. \u003ccite>(Alix Soliman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As climate change is expected to make El Niño cycles \u003ca href=\"https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/has-climate-change-already-affected-enso\">more intense and frequent\u003c/a>, Anderson said pelicans may gradually move north to breed. “It’s a complex situation, and it’s dynamic and moving really fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there are plenty of fish and noted that anchovies are particularly abundant this year. The pelicans just can’t find them in the murky water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey Bay is a particular hotspot in the state’s rescue effort. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.spcamc.org/programs-resources/wildlife-rescue-rehabilitation/wildlife-rescue.html\">Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center\u003c/a> at the SPCA of Monterey County has taken in more than 100 famished birds over the past month. Staff there have dedicated two outdoor enclosures to the pelicans and converted a staff bathroom into a heated recovery room for birds that can’t regulate their body temperature. Rescue calls started coming in on April 19 and have not yet stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ciera Duits-Cavanaugh, manager of the wildlife center, said the birds are arriving at half the weight they should be and that most rescues are happening on piers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1992901\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992901\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing blue gloves takes a blood sample from a leathery foot of a bird.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-06_qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildlife technicians at SPCA of Monterey County take a blood sample from the foot of a pelican. Like most of the rescued birds, the sample revealed the bird was anemic. \u003ccite>(Alix Soliman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[The birds are] targeting places where there’s easy food, so boats that are off-loading fish onto docks, restaurants — anywhere that they can get a hand-out,” Duits-Cavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cory Utter, the senior wildlife technician at the wildlife center, said they likely are not saving all the pelicans because most people can’t tell if a bird is struggling. There is one sure sign, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can walk right up to it, and it doesn’t seem bothered by you, then there’s probably something wrong,” Utter said. Officials recommend people call local wildlife centers if that happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a mom and her young son reported a weak-looking pelican drooping its beak into a tide pool at Asilomar State Beach in Monterey County. Two SPCA volunteers crouched down on the rocks, scooped up the bird, and placed it in a dog crate. The pelican didn’t resist. After a short drive back to the wildlife center, the volunteers pulled out the crate. The bird’s eyes were open, but its head was cocked to one side, and it was motionless. It had died in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Storms may be to blame\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Duerr, director of Research and veterinary science at International Bird Rescue, said the explanation that early spring storms limit the bird’s ability to find food makes sense, especially since they’ve tested dead pelicans and ruled out avian flu as a possible cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, the visibility and catchability of fish can be an issue for them because they don’t dive very deep — even the biggest brown pelican can only grab fish about 6 feet deep,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1992900\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut.jpg\" alt=\"White and blue birds with long beaks stand on colorful rugs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/240513-BrownPelicans-AlixSoliman-02_qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelicans struggling to regulate their body temperature rest in a warming room at the SPCA Monterey County, between 75–80 degrees Fahrenheit. \u003ccite>(Alix Soliman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About one-third to a half of the starving pelicans arriving at rescue centers were injured, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that brown pelicans take more risks in their feeding — more likely to go after fishing gear and that sort of stuff — when they’re nutritionally stressed,” Duerr said. “A desperate, hungry pelican can get into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an odd weather event in 2010, she said, they were found landing in people’s yards and snatching food off of hot barbecue grills.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pelicans back from the brink\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California brown pelicans \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/000/california-brown-pelican.htm#:~:text=In%20the%201960s%20and%201970s,the%20sea%20as%20the%20cause.\">almost went extinct\u003c/a> in the 1970s. 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Since the kelp is gone, however, these urchins no longer have a good food supply and are thus calorie-poor. They offer little nutritional value for otters, who aren’t interested in consuming these so-called “zombie urchins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that means otters have to eat alternative foods,” Law says. “A lot of those alternative foods are those super-hard-shell prey items that really require some kind of external force to break into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snails, for example, are abundant in the bay, but they’re low-calorie and “basically like a rock that you have to break into to eat the insides,” Law says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sea otters are known for using tools, not all individuals actually wield them. Some otters forgo them entirely and simply specialize in eating soft prey. 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This was particularly important for female otters since they’re smaller than males and cannot bite down with as much force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They typically wouldn’t be able to break into harder prey,” Law says. “But they use tools more than males, so they’re able to gain access to these novel sources of food items.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, using tools protected the otters’ teeth. The researchers were able to get dental assessments on their otters and found that tool users had less dental damage from crunching down on hard shells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without their teeth, they clearly can’t eat anything. So then they die. What we’re suggesting is that this behavior really allowed them to continue living on despite not having their preferred prey,” Law says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He explains that some otters learn to specialize in eating hard, low-calorie snails, using tools very frequently to “basically become really, really, really good at processing lots and lots and lots of snails every day” instead of searching for high-calorie foods that don’t require tools to open but are in short supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such an important paper,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.indianapoliszoo.com/about-the-zoo/\">Rob Shumaker\u003c/a>, president and CEO of the Indianapolis Zoo and one of the authors of a book called \u003cem>Animal Tool Behavior.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says scientists have spent decades documenting tool use in dozens of species; tool use in sea otters, for example, has been recognized since the 1960s. 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"content": "\u003cp>Raw milk can carry dangerous bacteria at any time. But as bird flu continues to circulate in cow herds across the U.S., federal regulators and health experts are cautioning California’s raw milk producers and consumers that the risks from drinking unpasteurized milk are heading in one direction: up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the warnings, raw milk continues to be produced and sold in the state’s grocers, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture told KQED its sale remains legal, which officials allow so long as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/Milk_and_Dairy_Food_Safety/rawmilk.html\">producers can show a\u003c/a> “continual and highly diligent attention to cleanliness and hygiene at both the farm and the bottling plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike pasteurized milk, raw milk does not undergo a heating process that is meant to kill or inactivate harmful bacteria and viruses. Researchers do not yet know how the virus may be transmitted to humans, and scientists like UC Davis’ Essam Abdelfattah are concerned that people who drink raw milk could get sick. “Any human being drinking raw milk is putting themselves at higher risk for diseases,” Abdelfattah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California allowing the sale of raw milk, regulators are putting consumers at a higher risk of exposure to multiple diseases, not only bacterial diseases but also avian influenza, he said. Abdelfattah is a veterinary scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture detected the\u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON512#:~:text=On%2025%20March%2C%20the%20USDA,recently%20received%20cows%20from%20Texas.\"> first cases of bird flu\u003c/a>, or H5N1, in dairy cattle on March 25 in Texas and Kansas. Since then, the USDA has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/livestock\">detected dozens of herds positive for the virus\u003c/a> in 9 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While none of these cases were in California, scientists recommend erring on the side of caution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many infectious agents, there is no magic wall between states,” said Peter Chin-Hong, infectious disease physician at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that the possibility of the virus reaching California shouldn’t be ruled out. “Personally, for me and my family members, people I care about, and my patients, I’ll tell them to lay off raw milk right now,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although scientists agree that the likelihood of human transmissions from cows is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/inhumans.htm#:~:text=The%20detections%20of,against%20bird%20flu.\">currently low\u003c/a>, that could change in the next few months. “The ground zero of avian flu is not the cow; it’s the bird. And birds fly from state to state with wild abandon,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/avian-flu-summary.htm\">two reported human cases of bird flu\u003c/a> in the U.S., one following an exposure to poultry in 2022 and one, more \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0401-avian-flu.html\">recently\u003c/a>, in a person who interacted with infected dairy cows in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Debate over drinking raw milk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration bans the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-safety-and-raw-milk\">interstate sale of raw milk\u003c/a> and has long cautioned people against drinking it because of the risk of foodborne diseases; guidance that the agency is \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">now reiterating\u003c/a> because of the spread of bird flu. The agency asked that the industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/milk-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/questions-and-answers-regarding-milk-safety-during-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai-outbreaks#:~:text=Because%20of%20the%20limited%20information,those%20infected%20with%20avian%20influenza\">stop manufacturing or selling raw milk products\u003c/a> from cows showing symptoms or that were exposed to the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also warns people that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/rawmilk/fast-facts.html\">drinking raw milk can lead to serious illness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11986062,news_11970666\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Last month, the FDA reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai\">1 in 5 pasteurized milk products\u003c/a> nationwide tested positive for the H5N1 virus. Pasteurized milk appears to still be safe to consume because the process makes the virus inactive. Nevertheless, experts believe that the significant viral load might suggest that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/bird-flu-doesnt-pose-imminent-pandemic-risk-but-lack-of-transparency-planning-a-cause-for-concern/\">virus is spreading at a higher rate \u003c/a>than previously known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups and producers of raw milk have pushed back, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rawmilkinstitute.org/updates/avian-flu-and-raw-milk-a-common-sense-approach#:~:text=The%20FDA%20acknowledges%20that%20%E2%80%9Cthere,raw%20milk%20can%20be%20carefully\">calling the warnings against raw milk related to avian flu “fear-mongering.”\u003c/a> Mark McAfee, the CEO and founder of Raw Farm, a dairy farm in Fresno and one of the largest raw milk producers in the country, said the sale of his company’s product “has never been higher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Farmers have figured out how to produce raw milk at a very low risk,” he said. He argues there are ways to produce raw milk that are clean and safe to drink. This includes sourcing milk from a single farm and ensuring that the milking equipment is clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonni Gilley, a Fresno resident, has been drinking raw milk for more than 20 years and said it hasn’t made her sick. The recent warning left her undeterred. “Raw means raw, like out of the lady, out of the cow,” she said. “To me, it’s more wholesome. I always look for products that are as close to being directly off the vine as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chin-Hong thinks continuing raw milk consumption, given the rapidly evolving nature of the virus, is “like playing Russian roulette.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The risk of infection isn’t the same for everyone,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to potential infection, he is most concerned about elderly people, young children, immunocompromised and pregnant individuals. “It’s often more challenging to treat these individuals just because their immune system isn’t quite as developed or robust. And the ability of drugs to work depends on some help from the immune system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/influenza-virus-vaccine-h5n1-national-stockpile\">stockpiling\u003c/a> vaccines and adjuvants and are ready to manufacture more if needed. Doctors can currently choose from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/novel-av-treatment-guidance.htm\">four antiviral options\u003c/a> and administer them to those suspected of H5N1 infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is currently no requirement to test raw milk for H5N1. The FDA and USDA said they are working on \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2024/05/10/usda-hhs-announce-new-actions-reduce-impact-and-spread-h5n1#:~:text=To%20help%20states%20comply%20with,and%20Response%2C%20known%20as%20CEIRRs.\">testing retail milk and dairy samples\u003c/a> for H5N1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who choose to continue to drink raw milk should be extra cautious, Chin-Hong said. He recommends that people look out for any symptoms, such as headache, muscle aches, difficulty breathing, diarrhea, or vomiting, and contact their healthcare provider. “Because the earlier someone can get ahead of it, the better,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Slowing the spread of bird flu\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jaydee Hanson, policy director at the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for food and agricultural issues, said too much attention has been given to drinking or not drinking milk. The bigger issue is containing the potential spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, the USDA has \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2024/04/24/usda-actions-protect-livestock-health-highly-pathogenic-h5n1-avian\">required H5N1 PCR or genetic testing\u003c/a> for all dairy cattle before they are moved between states. But Hanson thinks that rule is not strict enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The USDA and the FDA need to be banning any shipment of animals from farms that are known to have the bird flu to other operations, whether in the state or out of state,” he said. “We don’t want this virus to mutate and act in mammals the way it does in poultry. The FDA and the USDA need to get their act together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avian flu can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/virus-transmission.htm\">transmitted \u003c/a>from birds to other animals through direct contact, such as with saliva, mucus, and feces of infected animals, or through another animal, like pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pigs are known to be susceptible to both avian and human influenza viruses. They theoretically could act as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/virus-transmission.htm\">intermediate host\u003c/a>, or a go-between, of the new kind of infection, passing on a hybrid mutation of the virus to a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this hybrid virus survives in humans, it can be easily transmitted to other humans. Something similar happened in 2009 with another avian influenza virus, H1N1, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841239/\">killed over 200,000 people worldwide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the risk to the general public remains low, UC Davis’s Abdelfattah said people who work on farms and have regular contact with infected animals should be extra cautious because they are at higher risk of infection. “We need to care about the safety of these workers because these people are on the front line,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the precautions include wearing personal protective equipment such as gloves and masks while handling sick animals. California health officials told KQED that they will support a one-time distribution of respirators, gloves, safety goggles and other protective equipment to workers at dairy and poultry farms, as well as slaughterhouses, as these businesses scramble to protect against bird flu.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Raw milk can carry dangerous bacteria at any time. But as bird flu continues to circulate in cow herds across the U.S., federal regulators and health experts are cautioning California’s raw milk producers and consumers that the risks from drinking unpasteurized milk are heading in one direction: up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the warnings, raw milk continues to be produced and sold in the state’s grocers, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture told KQED its sale remains legal, which officials allow so long as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/Milk_and_Dairy_Food_Safety/rawmilk.html\">producers can show a\u003c/a> “continual and highly diligent attention to cleanliness and hygiene at both the farm and the bottling plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike pasteurized milk, raw milk does not undergo a heating process that is meant to kill or inactivate harmful bacteria and viruses. Researchers do not yet know how the virus may be transmitted to humans, and scientists like UC Davis’ Essam Abdelfattah are concerned that people who drink raw milk could get sick. “Any human being drinking raw milk is putting themselves at higher risk for diseases,” Abdelfattah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California allowing the sale of raw milk, regulators are putting consumers at a higher risk of exposure to multiple diseases, not only bacterial diseases but also avian influenza, he said. Abdelfattah is a veterinary scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture detected the\u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON512#:~:text=On%2025%20March%2C%20the%20USDA,recently%20received%20cows%20from%20Texas.\"> first cases of bird flu\u003c/a>, or H5N1, in dairy cattle on March 25 in Texas and Kansas. Since then, the USDA has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/livestock\">detected dozens of herds positive for the virus\u003c/a> in 9 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While none of these cases were in California, scientists recommend erring on the side of caution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many infectious agents, there is no magic wall between states,” said Peter Chin-Hong, infectious disease physician at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that the possibility of the virus reaching California shouldn’t be ruled out. “Personally, for me and my family members, people I care about, and my patients, I’ll tell them to lay off raw milk right now,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although scientists agree that the likelihood of human transmissions from cows is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/inhumans.htm#:~:text=The%20detections%20of,against%20bird%20flu.\">currently low\u003c/a>, that could change in the next few months. “The ground zero of avian flu is not the cow; it’s the bird. And birds fly from state to state with wild abandon,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/avian-flu-summary.htm\">two reported human cases of bird flu\u003c/a> in the U.S., one following an exposure to poultry in 2022 and one, more \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0401-avian-flu.html\">recently\u003c/a>, in a person who interacted with infected dairy cows in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Debate over drinking raw milk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration bans the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-safety-and-raw-milk\">interstate sale of raw milk\u003c/a> and has long cautioned people against drinking it because of the risk of foodborne diseases; guidance that the agency is \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">now reiterating\u003c/a> because of the spread of bird flu. The agency asked that the industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/milk-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/questions-and-answers-regarding-milk-safety-during-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai-outbreaks#:~:text=Because%20of%20the%20limited%20information,those%20infected%20with%20avian%20influenza\">stop manufacturing or selling raw milk products\u003c/a> from cows showing symptoms or that were exposed to the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also warns people that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/rawmilk/fast-facts.html\">drinking raw milk can lead to serious illness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last month, the FDA reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai\">1 in 5 pasteurized milk products\u003c/a> nationwide tested positive for the H5N1 virus. Pasteurized milk appears to still be safe to consume because the process makes the virus inactive. Nevertheless, experts believe that the significant viral load might suggest that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/bird-flu-doesnt-pose-imminent-pandemic-risk-but-lack-of-transparency-planning-a-cause-for-concern/\">virus is spreading at a higher rate \u003c/a>than previously known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups and producers of raw milk have pushed back, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rawmilkinstitute.org/updates/avian-flu-and-raw-milk-a-common-sense-approach#:~:text=The%20FDA%20acknowledges%20that%20%E2%80%9Cthere,raw%20milk%20can%20be%20carefully\">calling the warnings against raw milk related to avian flu “fear-mongering.”\u003c/a> Mark McAfee, the CEO and founder of Raw Farm, a dairy farm in Fresno and one of the largest raw milk producers in the country, said the sale of his company’s product “has never been higher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Farmers have figured out how to produce raw milk at a very low risk,” he said. He argues there are ways to produce raw milk that are clean and safe to drink. This includes sourcing milk from a single farm and ensuring that the milking equipment is clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonni Gilley, a Fresno resident, has been drinking raw milk for more than 20 years and said it hasn’t made her sick. The recent warning left her undeterred. “Raw means raw, like out of the lady, out of the cow,” she said. “To me, it’s more wholesome. I always look for products that are as close to being directly off the vine as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chin-Hong thinks continuing raw milk consumption, given the rapidly evolving nature of the virus, is “like playing Russian roulette.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The risk of infection isn’t the same for everyone,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to potential infection, he is most concerned about elderly people, young children, immunocompromised and pregnant individuals. “It’s often more challenging to treat these individuals just because their immune system isn’t quite as developed or robust. And the ability of drugs to work depends on some help from the immune system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/influenza-virus-vaccine-h5n1-national-stockpile\">stockpiling\u003c/a> vaccines and adjuvants and are ready to manufacture more if needed. Doctors can currently choose from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/novel-av-treatment-guidance.htm\">four antiviral options\u003c/a> and administer them to those suspected of H5N1 infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is currently no requirement to test raw milk for H5N1. The FDA and USDA said they are working on \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2024/05/10/usda-hhs-announce-new-actions-reduce-impact-and-spread-h5n1#:~:text=To%20help%20states%20comply%20with,and%20Response%2C%20known%20as%20CEIRRs.\">testing retail milk and dairy samples\u003c/a> for H5N1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who choose to continue to drink raw milk should be extra cautious, Chin-Hong said. He recommends that people look out for any symptoms, such as headache, muscle aches, difficulty breathing, diarrhea, or vomiting, and contact their healthcare provider. “Because the earlier someone can get ahead of it, the better,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Slowing the spread of bird flu\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jaydee Hanson, policy director at the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for food and agricultural issues, said too much attention has been given to drinking or not drinking milk. The bigger issue is containing the potential spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, the USDA has \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2024/04/24/usda-actions-protect-livestock-health-highly-pathogenic-h5n1-avian\">required H5N1 PCR or genetic testing\u003c/a> for all dairy cattle before they are moved between states. But Hanson thinks that rule is not strict enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The USDA and the FDA need to be banning any shipment of animals from farms that are known to have the bird flu to other operations, whether in the state or out of state,” he said. “We don’t want this virus to mutate and act in mammals the way it does in poultry. The FDA and the USDA need to get their act together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avian flu can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/virus-transmission.htm\">transmitted \u003c/a>from birds to other animals through direct contact, such as with saliva, mucus, and feces of infected animals, or through another animal, like pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pigs are known to be susceptible to both avian and human influenza viruses. They theoretically could act as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/virus-transmission.htm\">intermediate host\u003c/a>, or a go-between, of the new kind of infection, passing on a hybrid mutation of the virus to a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this hybrid virus survives in humans, it can be easily transmitted to other humans. Something similar happened in 2009 with another avian influenza virus, H1N1, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841239/\">killed over 200,000 people worldwide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the risk to the general public remains low, UC Davis’s Abdelfattah said people who work on farms and have regular contact with infected animals should be extra cautious because they are at higher risk of infection. “We need to care about the safety of these workers because these people are on the front line,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With wildfire risk and inflation making new homeowners insurance policies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980757/state-insurance-chief-tries-to-fix-insurance-market-hit-by-climate-change-rising-premiums-and-canceled-policies\">increasingly difficult to find in California\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing to fast-track new regulations that could speed up state reviews of requested rate hikes by insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules Newsom requested by executive order last fall are part of a series of proposed changes from the California Department of Insurance that would go into effect at the end of this year. But speaking on Friday at a press conference, Newsom said he didn’t think that would be soon enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“December? I don’t think we have that much time,” Newsom said. “We need to move. We need to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He plans to work with legislators on a trailer bill, to be attached to the state budget, that could go into effect July 1, enacting regulatory changes to streamline the information insurance companies have to provide to the state when they want to make a change to their rates, whether those are increases or decreases. The proposed changes covered by the trailer bill would also impose time limits on how long the insurance department has to approve or deny those requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, this can take many months, even several years. It’s a major complaint from the insurance industry, which has seen a growing number of insurers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992401/homeowners-insurance-market-stretched-even-thinner-as-2-more-companies-leave-california\">pull out of California’s homeowners market\u003c/a> in recent months. From their perspective, by the time a rate increase is approved, it’s already out of date. 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This includes allowing insurers to use forward-looking models to set rates instead of just historical data; allowing some reinsurance costs — reinsurance is insurance for insurance companies — into customer rates; and requiring insurers to write a lot more coverage in risky parts of the state, with the goal of de-populating the teetering FAIR Plan, California’s insurer of last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he appreciated the governor’s support and agreed quick action was needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill Epstein, CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of California, said it was hard to know exactly what to think about the bill until details were released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, we would welcome anything that will expedite this process,” Epstein said. “It sounds great, and I hope it’s meaningful when it gets put in print.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement could be a major step toward assuaging the concerns of insurers operating in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1992401,news_11980757,science_1985175\"]“I’ve been watching this happen over the last three, four or five years. And we reached that tipping point, and we fell over it,” said Karl Susman, owner of Susman Insurance Agency. “And so now everyone is rushing to try and fix the problem that has been occurring slowly. So, on one hand, I’m shocked that they’re taking this as seriously as they, frankly, should have been for quite some time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, he said, Newsom’s action on something that is already part of the Sustainable Insurance Strategy could signal to private insurance carriers that the state is serious about enacting changes. 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