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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO, May 2 (Reuters) - U.S. sellers of raw milk appear undeterred by federal health warnings for consumers to avoid drinking unpasteurized milk in light of a bird flu outbreak that has ...