From Newsgroup: talk.origins

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260620100315.htm

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea2068

As tragically lame as it may be someone is just getting around to
providing more evidence for the hypothesis that cattle are getting
infected in their udders due to the presence of N-linked Salic acid
glycans on glycoproteins. Birds produce mostly N-linked salic acid
glycans on their glycoproteins, and avian influenza is adapted to
binding to N-linked glycans to enter the cell. Mammals produce more
O-linked salic acid glycans, and are resistant to avian influenza
infection, but the dairy virus has adapted to being able to infect
mammalian tissues with higher levels of N-linked glycans.

This was proposed when udders were found to be the major infected tissue
in dairy cattle very early in the epidemic. Sadly the same research has
not been done on the eye (likely tear glands) for humans nor the gut and neurological tissue of cats. Humans have been known to primarily be
infected in their eyes since the start of the dairy epidemic, and cats
were known to be infected through their guts, and the virus is able to
spread to the brain. It is almost like no one has wanted to understand
the dairy epidemic. Why should it take more than 2 years to confirm an infection hypothesis and continue to fail to determine why the human
eyes are being infected?

My guess is that the eye could be a major tissue for infection in cattle
(they know that infective virus exists in microdroplets due to waste
water splashing in the dairy barn). My guess is that once it infects
the cow in their eyes that mammary gland tissue can be infected, just as
the brain is infected in cats infected via their gut. They have failed
to infect cattle using contaminated milking equipment, but no one has
tried to infect the cow through it's eyes even though they know that,
that is how most of the humans have been infected.

The dairy epidemic has been something that someone wanted to be
misunderstood. The USDA continues to label the collection of viral
samples as USA instead of the specific dairy and time the virus was
collected. This makes epidemiological analysis nearly impossible.

They haven't figured out how the virus is spreading because they
probably never wanted to know how it was happening.

The longer the dairy epidemic lasts the more humans will be infected and
the more chance that human adapted virus will evolve.

Ron Okimoto

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