Cuddling A Cow Could Give You Bird Flu!

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/bird-flu-outbreak-could-threaten-us-cow-cuddling-craze-13128725

Who'd have thunk it?

[Old_Geezer]

I've heard of a cow that could jump over the moon, but I never knew they flu with the birds !

[retrocop]

Perhaps the craze started with cowboys who didn't have chaps.

[Ken4155]

Don't milk it, Retro.

[Ken4155]

And we all know the craze started by operating a protection racket from a snooker club in Mile End.

[Togo]

I remember full well being advised by the older blokes, when I was a very young man, not to cuddle up to cows or I would catch something nasty. 

[andres]

There's a list a mile long of the diseases that humans can catch from animals.

Togo ----When I was young we lived on a farm and two of our neighbours got farmers lung and died. I have a lung disease caught from pigeons.

[andres]

^^^^ Just to clarify== Farmers got farmers lung from dust or mould coming off the  hay .