Actually,

It’s one of the few defenses we have that does work.

When avian influenza strains hit, it’s how we control it. It seems less likely to work in a cervine population, but the herds in new york cannot be that big. Couple hundred members at the absolute most. Probably less.

It seems more sad, and certainly harder because no one wants to be the guy who shot bambi’s mom. But were dealing with something that has the possibility to mutate rapidly, spread easier than hot butter, and affects all vertebrate animals.

The rat population would be much much much harder to curtail in a city the size of new york.