Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Poulsen had seen sick cows before, with their noses dripping and udders slack.
This is crazy too, because as a falconer RFK should be extremely familiar with bird flu. We’ve been dealing with it for years and there’s a story of someone’s falcon or hawk dying from it semi-often. If he’s part of a club he’ll get HPAI reports even. I went to the national meet a few weeks ago and they separate birds that chase ducks and birds that don’t (quarantine zones).
Although I guess it’s possible to know something exists and deny that it has a solution. So dumb.