Bird Flu in Raw Cow Milk Has Killed Farm Cats in a Concerning First

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7. Eventually they'll find it in a state with a little more respect for science

Texas is all about damage control and reassuring people that their cow's milk is safe. Unfortunately, that tends, as you point out, to leave little for science to work with.

Good luck to the CDC or any other agency getting in there to test the whole herd for viral samples.

Paxton, himself, would block that. Bad for bidness, you know.

As for the virus becoming easily transmissible to and among people, it generally has to become weaker to do that, hitting the upper respiratory system rather than the lower. That in itself reduces its lethality. However, this one shows all the signs of being a bad one, maybe even on the level of the 1918 flu, although we have better treatments now than they had back then.