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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.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Podunk@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can say it as a joke, but Ive got dairy cows...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Good luck now that you've said that. You're going to be savaged by a certain type of vegan in PM. I was spammed by one this morning and I didn't even mention animal products recently as far as I know.

(There are decent vegans, but then there are the asshole type who feel like they can berate and harass people into veganism.)

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel a bit bad for the normal vegans actually because they likely want to avoid even mentioning it do to the other type.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I do too. There are plenty of decent vegans who are afraid to even open their mouths and make gentle suggestions.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, getting told that you rape cows

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was once told that I was participating in "bee slavery" by consuming honey.

Because, you know, bees wouldn't make honey unless we enslaved them to do so.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trade offer: I provide you with housing in exchange for some of your honey

[–] prongs@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hell, as a human I'll take that deal. When can I move in?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

My partner keeps saying we can't get a beehive, I think a humanhive would be asking for too much.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I treat the militant vegans exactly like I treat MAGAs. i.e. I completely ignore them when they start their bullshit.

true enough of many of bullshit. Its like when you have to start writing paragraphs because of the stupidity of the arguments. I had that this morning where someone wanted to bring actions in war as an example of a lack of dignity. Well duh. Name me a dignified war. So I was like. Ok. Yeah not taking this bait.

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[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Squids are carnivores, and you're an anthromorphic squid. I can see why a vegan would be upset.

[–] Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I actually kind of like it when someone on here goes out of their way to be a dick, because then I can find the users I want to slap user tags on easier.

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[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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!

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.

Another pandemic is pretty much inevitable.

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Never been happier to be a vegetarian incapable of processing milk.

Edit: to be clear, I’m poking fun at your upcoming bankruptcy over a simple dinner of milk steak and jellybeans.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pasteurization is done for a reason.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

That won't make it any cheaper when it follows the price of eggs

[–] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There is a paper out about reactivation after pasteurization sadly.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being able to eat meat doesn't mean you have to. Something that (perhaps slightly irrationally) annoys me about some people. They act as if a meal requires meat and then complain at how expensive food is to buy. Laughs in omnivore £15/week each diet. But by not being actually vegetarian I can still have things like Worcestershire sauce too.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 1 year ago (47 children)

Yeah and its annoying the vegans that are so militant they discourage meat reduction in diets. Beef is so much worse (both health and environment) than most other meats that getting a large amount of folks to give up or massively reduce beef consumption is way better than a much smaller number becoming vegan.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just look at /r/vegan, even if you don't eat/use animal products you are still not a vegan unless its for their specific reasons. If you do it for environmental reasons they decide you don't count as a vegan.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It's tragic that people have already killed their cats with raw milk (and some cat food), apparently. I'm sure Brainworms will be looking out for everyone's pets, too....

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shame that's not how this virus works with it's concern of jumping from avians and mammals, including humans.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is one concern, if it's also resulting in a lot of livestock being killed off that will now impact food prices of more than just eggs.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yup. Its to late now but for a week or few chicken meat prices were down and given the timing im almost sure if was from flocks being culled.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I have to have whole milk and other dairy as part of my nutritional regimen as worked out by a professional dietician, so I'm glad I'm not in America right now.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Depression diet is coming and meat won't be on the menu.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's ok. I still got my emergency rum ham.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

You won't be laughing when it crosses over to the soybeans!

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t worry folks! Trumps and Muskie are putting the best people in charge. Just the best. We’re all going to be fine.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

These are woke DEI cows! We’re going to put a stop to regulations and vaccines! Bird flu is far left radical fake news. We’re gonna put tariffs on the farmers, and force white women to marry incels and have babies in response. This will surely fix things.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Nothing to worry about here, folks!

I'm sure donvict has things well in hand with the likes of Brainworms running things. And I'm sure whoever Kamala would have put in would have been just as bad, because I keep hearing they are the same.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good thing beef was already so cheap

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We need to figure out a way to turn beef into eggs so all the culled cows can make egg prices lower... 🤔

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Haha, we're fucked. Can I get a George Bush second plane meme?

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