Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has spread in herds since last year. U.S.

Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday.

The detection indicates that distinct forms of the virus known as Type A H5N1 have spilled over from wild birds into cattle at least twice. Experts said it raises new questions about wider spread and the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the people who work closely with them.

“I always thought one bird-to-cow transmission was a very rare event. Seems that may not be the case,” said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

  • Rolder@reddthat.com
    13·
    10 hours ago

    Waiting for the next pandemic to really turn this year into a real shit fiesta.

    Silver lining though is more work from home for most people!

    • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Good luck even hearing about it with all forms of social media being controlled by the administration and that’s where most people get their news. You’ll just hear “oh yeah, theres a bug going around” I’m prettu sure that Tiburculoses is a lot worse than we think.

      • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
        2·
        3 hours ago

        yuppers and all transit funding comes with the rider of no mask mandates allowed. They want more babies and less adults. Somehow too many of the current adults were educated and they want to fix that societal mistake.