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Strains jumping from one type of animal to another sounds very critical to me. How concerned should we be? The article ends with the rollout on testing milk/da
by spockz 2y ago
Strains jumping from one type of animal to another sounds very critical to me. How concerned should we be?
The article ends with the rollout on testing milk/dairy. Does that mean the jump isn’t that worrisome or just that both the jump and the number of dairy cows affected is now so large that we need to take action?
Unfortunately this seems like one of those critical things that could be totally snowed under or worse derailed by next weeks events.
- Buttons840 2y agoArticle seems to say that the pig was infected by birds; it wasn't the same strain as cows.
- spockz 2y agoExactly. So it was another avian strain that migrated to pigs and that for the first time. That seems to be why it is so serious.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoThe article recognizes the jump as very worrisome, but it's also a new development. Milk/dairy infections have apparently been happening for some time now; per quoted headlines: > Utah reported that 8 dairy herds in Cache County were bulk tank positive for H5N1, tested as a result of a B3.13-infected layer flock. Utah is the 15th state with confirmed infections in the U.S. > California reported another 5 B3.13-infected dairy herds with the count as of yesterday standing at 193 (of approximately 400 nationally confirmed infected herds) The testing is a consequence of that situation.