In a press release, USDA has confirmed the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza, aka bird flu, in dairy herds in Texas (7) Kansas (2), Michigan (1), New Mexico (1) and Idaho (1).

Scientists have known for more than a year that bird flu, H5N1, made the jump from wild birds and common poultry to cows and ...

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“Given that some lactating cows’ “steal milk” through self-nursing or mutual-nursing, they speculated that “mouth-to-teat” transmission may be the route by which the H5N1 virus initially infects the ...

In May, a second dairy farmworker was diagnosed with bird flu, and the virus was detected in both beef and milk. It has been confirmed on dairy cattle farms in nine states.

In March 2024, bird flu was reported in U.S. dairy cows for the first time. As of Friday, the virus has infected more than 1,000 herds across 17 states, according to the U.S. Department of ...

Fears of a bird-flu pandemic have been rising since the first confirmed outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in dairy cattle was reported in March 2024.

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A person in Texas has been diagnosed with the H5N1, or bird flu after direct contact with dairy cows, health officials said Monday. It’s the first case in the U.S. of highly pathogenic avian ...

A person in Texas has been diagnosed with a bird flu strain tied to a recent outbreak among dairy cows — becoming the second person ever in the US to contract the virus, federal and state ...