‘Anti-immigrant climate’ pushes populations at high risk for bird flu exposure away from prevention, education

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‘Anti-immigrant climate’ pushes populations at high risk for bird flu exposure away from prevention, education

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs bird flu continues to spread across the San Joaquin Valley, county public health officials are working to stop transmission to humans by focusing on the group most at risk – dairy farm workers. But there’s a catch. According to researchers, a majority of dairy farm workers are immigrants, including many who are undocumented. Now, amid sweeping federal immigration raids across the country, some immigrants have stopped en…