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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2 reasons. The 1st was already covered by someone else, namely that you do not want the infection to become a pandemic that wipes out a large portion of a livestock species.

The 2nd is that disease is very often due jump from livestock to humans. Some of the recent callings have involved things like avian flu that has already done so in the past. But even with other pathogens you won’t be careful, especially if they are airborne.