A release said Fresno County Department of Public Health and Merced County Department of Public Health are working closely with the hospital and healthcare workers caring for the individual.

It’s part of a new pilot program to contain the virus.

California public health officials are dipping into state and federal stockpiles to equip up to 10,000 farmworkers with masks, gloves, goggles, and other safety gear.

There’s a new push from the CDC to test more workers who have come into contact with infected cattle and birds. That comes as 21 people and 259 dairies in California have reported the virus.

California this year completed its Medi-Cal expansion to include income-eligible residents regardless of their immigration status. This final installment of the “Faces of Medi-Cal” series profiles three of those newly eligible patients and how coverage has affected their health.

California voters will decide in November whether to approve a $10 billion climate bond that supporters say is needed to jump-start water system repairs for residents without safe drinking water. Opponents say those repairs should be prioritized in the state budget, not put on a credit card.

A person who came into contact with cattle at a dairy farm is Merced County‘s first confirmed human case of H5N1 bird flu infection this year, public health officials said Monday.

Workers at rural, independent health care facilities will start making a minimum of $18 an hour, while others at hospitals with at least 10,000 full-time employees will begin getting paid at least $23 an hour this week.

Cows in the Central Valley are dying so quickly from bird flu that they are overwhelming standard protocols meant to dispose of carcasses, according to a dairy industry representative.

At least two dairy workers infected were from different farms, and were showing mild symptoms. They were treated with antiviral medications and isolated at home.