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.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    14 hours ago

    are you asking me to judge their methodology because it is way out of my field. Again though what I am seeing of critiques themselves have issues I can see and if I see something I no is not correct like the animal feed thing then I discount the whole critique because I do not feel I can trust it. As for other sources I can say going back I can find thes about conversion https://awellfedworld.org/feed-ratios/ and its source material in most cases is industry information.

    • NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 hours ago

      are you asking me to judge their methodology because it is way out of my field.

      I assure you it is written in plain English. no hard math is required to understand that they compiled data that was collected with disparate methodologies, and did so against the express direction of the original authors as well as accepted practice. further, the failed to disclose this, even when citing papers which committed the same faux pas which did disclose it.