Tag: dairy
How Bird Flu Went from Devastating Poultry Farms to Infecting Dairy Herds
Why Dairy Farmers Were Surprised by Bird Flu Cases in Their Herds The bird flu was long known to poultry farmers. Here’s why the dairy industry was caught off guard by its jump to cattle. By Meghan Bartels, Jeffery DelViscio, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura & Rachel Feltman Dairy cows inside the Teaching Dairy Barn at…
A new type of bird flu has been found in dairy cows in Nevada
By Will Stone A variant of H5N1 bird flu that has circulated widely in wild birds — and in several instances led to severe illness in several humans — has turned up in dairy cattle for the first time. The findings were relayed in a short update from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which traced…