U.S. will buy regular flu shots for farmworkers to prevent bird flu from getting more dangerous

Think of it more as a national security issue.

Don't you dare mention welfare, they'll never get the vaccine and then we're all dealing with people-flavored bird flu.

Instead, we must speak their language and tell them unvaxxed farmers are less manly or something.

Let's stop "farming" animals. I suggest converting these barns to mushroom farming, I can never have enough mushrooms.

I don't think limiting density would control bird flu specifically considering that wild bird populations are high enough density to spread this disease.

I do generally support lower density farming though. Anecdotally, the white blood cell count of dairy cows on pasture is way lower than when they are in barns during the winter. And even the winter white blood cell counts on the small organic dairy farm I worked on was an order of magnitude lower than what is considered normal for conventional dairy.

White blood cell counts in milk are used as a proxy to monitor for infections. It's impractical to test for every pathogen, but looking for the immune response of the cow works reasonably well.

What makes you say so? Is the Hispanic population especially known for being anti-vax?

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