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BREAKING: Mystery Illness Impacting Texas, Kansas Dairy Cattle is Confirmed as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Strain (www.agweb.com)

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[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 121 points 7 months ago

Has anyone reminded the cows that it's just the flu, and they really should just suck it up and get back to work?

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

Muh hamburder's freedoms!!

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Make Angus great... again?

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Cheeseburger, but do carrion.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago

They should try and infect every cow so they can build up resistance. 🤓

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

Strange things happen when cows start to resist

[-] esc27@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

Fun fact: the earliest known case of the 1918 "Spanish flu" was in Kansas.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

The "German cockroach" didn't originate from Germany.

[-] esc27@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Neither did german chocolate cake

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

That one has an excuse - it's named after Samuel German.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Along with his Spanish friend English Memorial

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I really thought you were gonna say English Muffin. 🥴

[-] shield_gengar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Gonna start calling it the Kansas flu

[-] rimu@piefed.social 32 points 7 months ago

If we have another pandemic on top of the current one I will be displeased.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 68 points 7 months ago

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 7 months ago

None of them are even good plagues, there were no zombies and I still had to go to work. I don't think it should count if you still have to go to work.

[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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[-] wafflez@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Here you go

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mystery-illness-affects-dairy-cattle-across-the-american-southwest/ar-BB1kv8a1

[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 28 points 7 months ago

It's been hitting South America hard. Only a matter of time until it spread to the US.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

Mystery Illness Impacting Texas, Kansas

Only a matter of time until it spread to the US.

...good distinction.

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Damn, son. Well played

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 7 months ago

I don't know, they always have wanted to secede

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago

I meant now that they have identified the mystery illness as the highly pathogenic avian flu, it's not surprising that it has moved into the US. It has been in South America for several seasons, and avian flu can be carried by migratory birds. It was only a matter of time until it spread like this.

Unfortunate, but not surprising.

[-] Zirconium@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Texas, Kansas? Or Texas and Kansas

[-] sygnius@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

Cow-vid

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 16 points 7 months ago

Elderly cows can take care of themselves and wouldn’t want to sacrifice their grandcalf’s economic future. Keep them all together going strong.

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Feed them to the rich in tartar form.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

here we go again

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I'm tired, boss.

[-] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

I was wondering what the hell that was. It tore through my workplace like a tornado on meth. I figured it was covid V78.2 or some shit.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Can we please invent one that ends all Society humans I'm sick of living inside a portal to other dimensions

[+] logi@lemmy.world -17 points 7 months ago

Bird flu still hasn't migrated to mammals. Let alone humans.

USDA reports that affected dairy cows do not appear to be transmitting the virus to other cattle within the same herd. APHIS says based on findings from Texas, "the detections appear to have been introduced by wild birds. Initial testing by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories has not found changes to the virus that would make it more transmissible to humans, which would indicate that the current risk to the public remains low."

[-] jittery3291@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Yes, it has infected plenty of mammals. It has caused mass die offs in aquatic mamals in South America and has spread through a mink farm in Europe. But no, it does not appear to have adapted to transmit more easily between humans yet.

[-] logi@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I heard a marine biologist just last week saying marine mammals were being infected by sick birds that they had eaten. At most I see talk of suspicion of transmission between mammals like in that Spanish mink farm. So I still think people are getting carried away ITT until I see some science to the contrary.

[-] jittery3291@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

It has, over the past few years, adapted to spread from birds to mammals more effectively, but so far does not seem to be transmitted from one mammal to another more easily. The fear with finding large numbers of herbivores (who don't eat dead birds) positive is, I suppose, that this could signify further genetic changes. Not saying this is definately the case, but it is still an important development and it's good that people are taking this seriously. Furthermore, humans have a lot more contact with farm animals than wild predators, so zoonosis is probably more likely to occur from one of these animals than like... a sea lion.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying we should panic - the fact the animals are not too sick is good to hear - we just don't want to be caught with our trousers down (again).

[-] logi@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Agreed on all points. But ITT there are people jumping the gun a bit. And some heavy downvoting if you don't join the chorus.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

Are you saying that cattle aren't mammals?

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

They're trying to say that cattle can't give it to other cattle, only birds can give it to mammals.. so far!

[-] capital@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

We should continue our horrid factory farming practices and give it the best chance. /s

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You can't expect people like this to understand anything beyond their agenda.

[-] logi@lemmy.world -3 points 7 months ago

Agenda? :rolleyes:

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