Texas just had this strain of bird flu that’s infecting cattle herds in Texas as well jump from cow to human and that’s not good at all. So far they haven’t culled the cattle as it seems to be a mild infection in them. The troubling part is the species to species jumps. Some bird flus have a 80+% fatality rate in humans one of those makes the jump to a mammal species and then learns to jump to humans and then human to human will make covid look like a cakewalk. Imagine a world where 80% of any one infected dies and it’s airborne and as infectious as regular flu with a R0 of 2 or worse 3+ you couldn’t make a horror movie that bad.
According to the sources I found that did not have their hair on fire over this bird flu-bird flu sometimes does transmit that way-dairy cows, but it is rare, not deadly, etc. It does not appear to be a reason to slaughter dairy cattle, get a vaccine or two or three-or anything else drastic-here is a link to a calm, sensible source-
/medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-texan-h5n1-bird-flu-cdc.html