Bird Flu cases jumped from 16 to 31 in past few days--but CDC refuses to tell us how it defines a case. Is CDC a public health agency or a collection of spin doctors?

And as it did during COVID, CDC hides behind the skirts of its sister organization, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

The USDA definition of a probable or confirmed case does not require any illness in an animal, just a positive test, and apparently has not changed in 2 years. While CDC says it will continue to update its page. But for the moment, the way it confirms a case is a secret shared only with the CSTE.

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/hcp/case-definition/