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CDFA seeks multi-year funding to boost animal and human health emergency response after avian influenza and dairy cases
Summary
Secretary Karen Ross asked the subcommittee for multi-year general fund support to expand California's animal and human health emergency response capacity after a broad avian influenza outbreak that included dairies in 2024.
Secretary Karen Ross presented a multi-year request to strengthen California's animal and human health emergency-response capacity following an expanded avian influenza outbreak in 2024 that affected wild birds, poultry and dairy herds.
Request and rationale - Funding request: Ross asked for $6.0 million in general fund for 2025-26, then approximately $5.4 million in 2026-27 and $5.3 million in 2027-28 (ongoing). The proposal also seeks $5.0 million in federal fund authority. - Why now: CDFA officials said the 2024 outbreak was atypical because avian influenza spread into dairy herds; the department reported more than 770 dairy cases, 73 poultry cases and about 50 herds remaining in quarantine at the time of testimony. Officials described zoonotic risk to human workers and emphasized the value of a "one-health" approach linking animal and public health systems.
Uses of funds described - Epidemiology and surveillance including bulk-milk-tank surveillance and laboratory capacity.
