The H5N1 avian influenza virus—commonly known as bird flu—has been causing outbreaks in dairy cows in the United States since ...

Since bird flu was first identified in U.S. dairy herds in March 2024, Wisconsin dairy herds have managed to avoid the virus - until now.

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A study at Iowa State University is seeking to determine whether bird flu, found in cows' milk, can also show up in other ...

A Jersey cow feeds in a field in May 2018 in Iowa. Bird flu has been detected in a seventh Iowa dairy herd, the state agriculture department said Monday. (Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press) Buy ...

The outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in US dairy cows has now spread to three herds in California, the largest milk-producing state in the country, with around 1.7 million dairy cows, federal and state ...

Since March, when the first reported cases of H5N1 bird flu began showing up in dairy cattle in Texas, the Food and Drug Administration has been asking farmers to discard any milk from infected ...

The virus has — so far — caused only minimal illness among humans, yet has spread rapidly among birds, sea mammals and other species with devastating effect. Although U.S. health officers have ...

As California struggles to contain an increasing number of H5N1 bird flu outbreaks at Central Valley dairy farms, veterinary experts and industry observers are voicing concern that the number of ...

Spikes of influenza A virus seen in wastewater samples from 59 sewer systems across 18 different states this spring may point to the spread of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that is currently ...

The same version of the bird flu that has caused the most serious human illnesses in North America has now turned up in dairy cows. Cattle in Nevada tested positive for the H5N1 viral variant D1.1, ...