Letter to the editor: This deadly virus isn’t just ‘for the birds’ anymore

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Letter to the editor: This deadly virus isn’t just ‘for the birds’ anymore

The deadly flu virus is not just “for the birds” anymore! The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has just decreed that dairy cows must be tested for the deadly bird flu, which has already killed millions of chickens in the U.S. The unprecedented transmission of the H5N1 virus to cows has drawn public health concerns because cows are mammals, just like humans. Although the precise cause of the outbreak re…