If I asked 100 random people on the street “should we be giving antibiotics to healthy animals?” I’m pretty sure most or all of them would say “no.

That makes sense in a lot of ways. We should save antimicrobials to treat sick individuals (especially people), and we shouldn’t use antimicrobials in

I think it’s fair to say H5N1 becoming seemingly endemic in US dairy cattle in the past year caught us off guard. The virus has spread widely within and between US dairy herds, has caused mild infections in a number of people in close contact with infected cows, has killed a lot of cats on

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Cat-to-human or human-to-cat transmission of H5N1 influenza would be concerning but not too surprising.

Suppression of information by the US government would be concerning but not surprising given what’s going on at the moment.

But, did those occur?

The sharp eyes at the New York Times have raised concerns, because they spotted a CDC report

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As H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in wild birds and spills over into domestic birds and mammals of many kinds, we’re becoming more aware of the risks to domestic mammals and there are more questions about test selection and interpretation. Fortunately, testing for H5N1 influenza is relatively straightforward.

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