Sudden drop in milk production, thickened milk, and cows under movement restrictions. Since 2024, American farmers have had bitter experiences with the feared bird flu (H5N1), which in several cases ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A herd of holstein cows get milked on a New York dairy farm (Image by Jake Zajkowski, for AGDAILY) Highly pathogenic avian ...

Idaho reported 13 new cases of avian influenza in dairy cattle May 11-12, according to USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. “We’ve been accumulating more positive dairies over the past ...

A total of nine states have reported H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle since late March, according to the CDC. The United States Department of Agriculture announced this week it will start ...

When H5N1 bird flu first began infecting U.S. cattle in early 2024, diagnosis was elusive, because in cows, the disease looked completely different. Instead of affecting the lungs, as H5N1 does in ...

When H5N1 bird flu first began infecting U.S. cattle in early 2024, diagnosis was elusive because, in cows, the disease looked completely different. Instead of affecting the lungs, as H5N1 does in ...

When highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu spilled into U.S. dairy herds in 2024, veterinarians saw something strange: cows were not dying of pneumonia, but developing severe mastitis as the virus attacked ...

Researchers uncovered why H5N1 bird flu attacks cows’ udders instead of their lungs: the virus’s preferred receptors are concentrated in mammary tissue. The breakthrough could help scientists predict ...

Officials are confident that the nation's meat and dairy supplies are safe. Despite a recent bird flu outbreak among cattle, government agencies have found no samples of the virus in dairy and beef ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vaccinating dairy cattle against bird flu would prevent spillover into humans, experts said. The H5N1 outbreak ...

Monthly routine surveillance found bird flu in five Idaho dairies not previously identified as having the disease, state veterinarian Scott Leibsle said. The five Idaho cases, confirmed April 13, are ...