Eli5: why do we kill livestock when theyre infected like an epidemic even though it wont affect us humans

Question

We had an livestock epidemic outbreak and it say it doenst affect human if we eat it why do we kill it ?

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Answer 1

Why don’t you think it will affect humans? My friend lived in Europe in the early 90’s, he can literally NEVER donate blood bc mad cow disease was such an issue back then.