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.

    • NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      but where did you get those? because i’ve found some LCA meta “studies” that i don’t trust which are usually the ones trotted out. i was hoping you had good data sources.

      • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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        43 minutes ago

        I mean I have never looked into the studies that are the basis for the data but while I think its possible in the details I really doubt the overall would be wrong. Water usage and calorie wise it pretty much falls in line with smaller animals using less for each calorie. I really doubt people are hyping crickets capability to convert plants into cricket vs cows making plants into cow. Its common sense enough that Im not looking to determining how well the studies were done as I don’t do that for most things as most people don’t who still work a job enough to eat and such. Conversely if you know about bad studies I would not mind you giving me what you have. I have just done a quick search using terms like misleading and scam and such and nothing seems to come up.