About 5 years or so ago I had found a waterbird dead by the electric fence, thought it got hung up or something and was killed. I picked it up and thew it in the garbage. In less than a week I came down with the damn west nile virus.
Really- just by touching it ? That’s scary. Did you recover from it ok ? I know it can be bad in certain people. There was a guy around here who got it river rafting- he ended up paralyzed. He was a young man,too.