Avian flu is now spreading among America’s dairy cows. In fact, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it’s found the presence of bird flu in about 20% of retail milk samples.
Here’s the latest news about a global outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that started in 2020, and recently spread among cattle in U.S. states and marine mammals across the world, which has health ...
Public health experts still don’t know how a bird flu virus has been spreading for months among dairy cows in the US – though early evidence points to contaminated milking equipment.
Researchers worry that insufficient collection and reporting of data are hampering efforts to assess the scale of the bird-flu outbreak in US cattle — and could hold back efforts to bring the ...
The bird flu outbreak among dairy cows continues to generate alarm, despite reassuring news that pasteurised milk is unlikely to infect anyone with H5N1. Scientists cannot stop worrying about a ...
Bird flu in cows and goats has raised alarm in the U.S. To date, three people are thought to have caught the virus from cattle, but the risk to the general public is low. Editor's note: This is a ...
Pigs are capable of harboring both human flu and bird flu, allowing the viruses to mix and match parts of their genetic material. (Source: Bloomberg/Getty Images) The bird flu outbreak among ...
Deadly bird flu has been found in raw cow’s milk and may be able to survive standard pasteurisation, a study suggests. Scientists tested milk samples from herd infected with H5N1 in New Mexico ...
Cows have entry portals for both human and bird flus. This new finding may mean that cattle could host both types of flus at once. The two viruses could then swap parts to create a new type of ...
The bird flu virus, which was first reported in US poultry farms in 14 states in early 2022, has spread to cows and two humans in the first-ever cases of bird flu in humans in the United States.
Mice fed raw cow's milk infected with bird flu experienced high levels of the virus in their lungs, according to a study published Friday that suggests risk to humans who consume the drink. Over the ...
USDA confirms bird flu in beef from ill dairy cow, claims beef safe to eat despite virus detection. The virus was discovered during testing of 96 dairy cows that were removed from the supply after ...