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Bird flu is declared a state of emergency in California

KVPR | By Kerry Klein
Published December 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM PST
Cattle at a farm in California's Central Valley are shown.
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Cattle at a farm in California's Central Valley are shown.

On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency to streamline the state's response to avian flu. More than half of the human cases in the U.S. so far have been in California.

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Kerry Klein
Kerry Klein is an award-winning reporter whose coverage of public health, air pollution, drinking water access and wildfires in the San Joaquin Valley has been featured on NPR, KQED, Science Friday and Kaiser Health News. Her work has earned numerous regional Edward R. Murrow and Golden Mike Awards and has been recognized by the Association of Health Care Journalists and Society of Environmental Journalists. Her podcast Escape From Mammoth Pool was named a podcast “listeners couldn’t get enough of in 2021” by the radio aggregator NPR One.
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