The strategy for tracking bird flu in US dairy cattle falls worryingly short of what is needed to prevent the outbreak from widening and potentially spreading to humans ...
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Officially, there is only one documented case of bird flu spilling over from cows into humans during the current U.S. outbreak. But epidemiologist Gregory Gray ...
Scientists worry that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza will become endemic in cattle, which would facilitate its spread in people.
Bird flu is, famously, a disease that infects birds. But earlier this week, federal and state authorities reported that a ...
As a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza spreads through the nation’s farms, local scientists are racing to answer that key question.
Dairy cows across the country are infected by the H5N1 bird flu. The virus isn’t spreading among people but scientists are on ...
Health officials have detected fragments of a bird flu virus in milk. What does that mean for the milk supply?
Location of receptors that flu viruses can attach to in cows may help explain pattern of illness in H5N1 bird flu outbreak in ...
So far, culling infected flocks hasn't been enough to curtail the virus, identified Wednesday in another Michigan commercial ...
B ird flu seems to be perennially in the news at the moment, and with more and more species succumbing to the virus, concern ...
The highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, has affected tens of millions of farmed and wild birds in recent years. Over the last couple weeks, it’s begun to infect cattle — and one dairy ...
A person has tested positive for bird flu in the US, health officials reported this week, the country’s second human case. H5N1 was confirmed in a person who had been exposed to dairy cows thought to ...