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Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding
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Can this be passed through milk? Maybe the Fascism problem will solve itself if Bobby Brainworm convinces all the fascists to drink more raw milk ...
There are cases of a couple dairy workers getting mild cases of bird flu from getting raw milk splashed in their eye while working, so yes it's not terribly unlikely.
And cats dying of it after drinking raw milk and eating raw food products.
Government told people to never drink raw milk. The sale and consumption of raw milk went up in ivermectin loving circles. It's weird reverse psychology with raw milk.
I'm kind of ok with that.
It'd be fine if they were just endangering themselves, but the most likely way we get a more virulent bird flu strain is one of these idiots catching in while they also have the regular flu
And then refusing to isolate or wear a mask. While being unvaccinated.
They're basically dirty people.
I wouldn't be surprised if they started refusing to ever wash their hands.
It reminds me a lot of the Herman Cain Awards.
Well, except for them possibly harming their own children, who are blameless in such things.
What's next? Surely these people wouldn't be dumb enough to drink bleach.
Yeah, let alone inject it, or try to cure disease with a lightbulb suppository! I'm so glad americans are all rational people, and there's not a significant voting bloc of willfully misinformed dingbats ready to slurp down whatever obvious idiotic lie gets shat out in their general direction by their orange fuhrer!
Dairy farmer here, who fought this crap off when we still didnt know what it was.
Bird flu contaminated raw milk in cats, yeah it will kill the shit out of them. Its what helped us figure out what it was in the first place. Nothing confirmed so far as humans being infected from consumption that i am aware of currently, but i personally wouldnt try it.
The dairy workers that got bird flu. It was pinkeye that popped positive for h5. Probably splashback from either milk or fecal. It wasnt really a big deal other than conjunctivitis sucks.
But if you drink raw milk, you are playing russian roulette as patient zero at this point. Dont do it.
It seems so. I've been buying ultra-pasteurized which may be sufficient.
Yes it can be and the problem is these idiots are also gonna give that milk to their children. Who don’t deserve to suffer for the sins of their parents.
It's all fun* and games until there's human to human transmission.
(*Darwin award "fun")