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founding
Apr 9Liked by TACT

Ground up chicken waste fed to cattle. Reminds me of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy saga from a generation ago. (History doesn't repeat...but it rhymes)

(By the way...up to 20 dairy farms now) If it's in the feed...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/chicken-waste-fed-to-cattle-may-be-behind-bird-flu-outbreak/

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founding
Apr 10Liked by TACT

Houston...we have a problem. Check out quote below (Regrettably, source is paywalled)

AND it just turned up in North Carolina...

"Texas state epidemiologist Dr. Jessie Monday, says that 40 dairy farms in Texas had reported seeing the syndrome in their herds. Texas’ commissioner of agriculture estimated that the syndrome was present in 40% of the dairy herds in West Texas and the Texas Panhandle in Feb-March"

https://www.barrons.com/articles/bird-avian-flu-outbreak-texas-cows-news-latest-3a5fbfb0

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founding
Apr 9Liked by TACT

Since most of our active pharmaceutical ingredients come from China/India, I wonder about stocks of Tamiflu and related antivirals should most countries need them AT THE SAME TIME.

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