{"id":7464,"date":"2024-08-27T20:28:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2024-08-27T20:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:28:30","slug":"with-only-gloves-to-protect-them-farmworkers-say-they-tend-sick-cows-amid-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/27\/with-only-gloves-to-protect-them-farmworkers-say-they-tend-sick-cows-amid-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"With Only Gloves To Protect Them, Farmworkers Say They Tend Sick Cows Amid Bird Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/colorado-farmworkers-bird-flu-dairies-chickens-ppe\/\">KFF<\/a> In early August, farmworkers gathered under a pavilion at a park here for a picnic to celebrate Farmworker Appreciation Day. One sign that this year was different from the others was the menu: Beef fajitas, tortillas, pico de gallo, chips, beans \u2014 but no chicken. Farms in Colorado had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2024\/07\/09\/colorado-bird-flu-outbreak-chickens\/\">culled millions<\/a>&nbsp;of chickens in recent months to stem the transmission of bird flu. Organizers filled out the spread with hot dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter the menu, some dairy workers at the event said they don\u2019t exactly feel appreciated. They said they haven\u2019t received any personal protective equipment beyond gloves to guard against the virus, even as they or colleagues have come down with conjunctivitis and flu-like symptoms that they fear to be bird flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey should give us something more,\u201d one dairy worker from Larimer County said in Spanish. He spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear he\u2019d lose his job for speaking out. \u201cWhat if something happens to us? They act as if nothing is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/colorado-farmworkers-bird-flu-dairies-chickens-ppe\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF In early August, farmworkers gathered under a pavilion at a park here for a picnic to celebrate Farmworker Appreciation Day. One sign that this year was different from the others was the menu: Beef fajitas, tortillas, pico de gallo, chips, beans \u2014 but no chicken. Farms in Colorado had&nbsp;culled millions&nbsp;of chickens in recent months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7465,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions\/7465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}