“Cow-to-cow transmission is definitely playing a role in how this disease progresses. To what extent, we don’t know yet,” Leibsle said. It’s clear that infected wild birds spread the disease to herds in Texas and Kansas, he said. “But the herd of cattle that came up from Texas to Idaho, the birds didn’t follow,” the state veterinarian said…
…Idaho’s Leibsle said “not all dairy producers will want to wait one, two, three weeks” for dairy cows to recover. Some producers may decide to send the animals to slaughter as beef animals, he said.
This bird flu shit scares me really badly.
Kinda my point right?
Though, I guess “didn’t ‘do’ anything” wasn’t exactly the most correctest phrase to use. My point was that cross species infections are pretty common but it doesn’t mean that the bug is leathal and requires COVID levels of concern.
A person who worked around dairy cattle caught the bug from the cows, had some noticeable but not life threatening symptoms, but is okay.