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CDPH requests $13.5M for H5N1 and Marburg readiness; EMSA outlines wildfire medical response
Summary
CDPH asked the Assembly subcommittee for $13.5 million to support surveillance, testing, PPE, and a Northern California level‑3 assessment center as the state responds to H5N1 in animals and humans and monitors Marburg outbreaks; EMSA described large wildfire deployments and patient care statistics.
The California Department of Public Health told the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health it is requesting $13.5 million in the current year to strengthen surveillance, laboratory and health-care facility preparedness for human H5N1 cases and to monitor and prepare for potential Marburg virus cases.
CDPH emergency briefing: Melissa Relis, assistant deputy director at CDPH's Center for Preparedness and Response, described the request as funding to "lessen the spread of H5N1 in humans and prevent severe disease," to increase monitoring and to prepare for potential Marburg cases. Relis told the committee that California has had livestock (dairy cattle) cases and human cases — the department reported 38 confirmed positive human cases in California at the time of testimony — and that CDPH is coordinating with the…
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