Two cats that belonged to Michigan dairy workers exposed to bird flu died after being infected with the virus last year

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to reverse the firing of some employees who were involved in responding to the nation’s growing bird flu outbreak, officials said this week.

The statement explained that many of the positions were in the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, exactly the kind of jobs you’d want to have good people for, given the possibility of meat and poultry infected with bird flu entering the U.S. food supply.