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There is no concern about the safety of the nation's pork supply as a result of this finding,
the USDA reported, saying If it starts to spread from pigs to pigs, then it's much more of a problem,
Florian Krammer, a flu virologist at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine in New York, told STAT News Really it would just take one pig,
I guess I shouldn't be."
Schultz-Cherry was surprised by the pig news but, she said After all ... a few months ago, I would have told you that cows don't get flu."
This farm is a non-commercial operation, and the animals were not intended for the commercial food supply,
the agency said in a statement People need to start increasing their plans to deal with it if it should happen in another herd and another herd,
While it’s a different variation of the virus and it is tied to wild birds, it is a factor to make sure that we understand and appreciate exactly where the virus is in dairy and in bovine,
The livestock and poultry on this farm shared water sources, housing, and equipment; in other states, this combination has enabled transmission between species,
it said in a news release I think it probably doesn't increase the risk much, but surely, if this virus starts transmitting in pigs, that absolutely increases the risk,
We can’t wait for a virus to burn out. That strategy has not worked,
said Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, who has been involved in discussions about the new recommendations These situations evolve over time and as they evolve over time there needs to be a recalibration and adjustment,
The narrow requirement of pre-movement testing of only lactating dairy cows moving interstate is inadequate,
The biggest concern is that we just don't know what it would be like if, in fact, we did get this human transmissible bird flu coming from cattle,
The concern is that we would get person-to-person spread as efficiently as you get with seasonal flu, but that it has a very high case fatality rate."
The current bird flu situation in the U.S. is quite disturbing and odd,
Jeremy Rossman, senior lecturer in virology at the University of Kent, U.K, previously told Newsweek when California reported its first cases among farmworkers The more transmission that occurs in cows—and the more human spillover that occurs—the more chances that the virus will mutate and start to spread from person to person,
To date, [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)] has confirmed infection of 16 farmworkers with H5N1 bird flu in California,
the CDC said in an update on Tuesday
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