America's cow zone is approaching news of a livestock disease overseas with a heightened awareness, not a panic. Some U.S. farm officials worry that the disease could jump across the Atlantic because of free trade and travel, according to The Associated Press.
Human beings can pass it to animals.
But they cannot contract the disease themselves. Travelers returning from the United Kingdom recently have been so alarmed by the contagious livestock disease that they've called the Agriculture Department. Warning signs that are going up overseas probably aren't likely in Wisconsin, known as America's Dairyland. The U.S. hasn't seen an outbreak since 1927. So you get busy real fast and do something about it.