<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>Covid was fully airborne and spread very rapidly between people.&lt;p&gt;This is not airborne, nor have we seen it spreading between people.  All the cases we&amp;#x27;ve seen so far in the States have been from people who were known to be in contact with infected animals.&lt;p&gt;It certainly warrants further investigation and precautions for those working with livestock, but panic seems like an overreach.</text><parent_chain><item><author>COGlory</author><text>The virologists I know are much more concerned about this than they were about covid. I guess it&amp;#x27;s presenting neurological symptoms in bears&amp;#x2F;small mammals. Last fall there was a rash of small mammals showing rabies signs, that were euthenised that wound up negative for rabies, so they&amp;#x27;re now retesting them for this influenza.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Michigan farmworker is diagnosed with bird flu in case tied to dairy cows</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/1252984256/bird-flu-h5n1-virus-human-michigan-cows</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>Maybe this is what you&amp;#x27;re referring to?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wwwnc.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;eid&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;23-0464_article&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wwwnc.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;eid&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;23-0464_article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also shows neurological symptoms in cats (and high mortality),&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wwwnc.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;eid&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;24-0508_article&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wwwnc.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;eid&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;24-0508_article&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>COGlory</author><text>The virologists I know are much more concerned about this than they were about covid. I guess it&amp;#x27;s presenting neurological symptoms in bears&amp;#x2F;small mammals. Last fall there was a rash of small mammals showing rabies signs, that were euthenised that wound up negative for rabies, so they&amp;#x27;re now retesting them for this influenza.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Michigan farmworker is diagnosed with bird flu in case tied to dairy cows</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/1252984256/bird-flu-h5n1-virus-human-michigan-cows</url></story>