Bird flu is, famously, a disease that infects birds. But earlier this week, federal and state authorities reported that a ...
U.S. regulators confirmed that sick cattle in Texas, Kansas and possibly in New Mexico contracted avian influenza. They stressed that the nation’s milk supply is safe. By Emily Anthes A form of ...
Dairy cows in multiple US states have fallen ill with bird flu, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The virus has killed millions of birds worldwide, but this is the first time ...
A person in the US has contracted bird flu from infected dairy cows in Texas. This is the first confirmed case of a subtype of the virus, named H5N1, transmitting between a human and another mammal.
Bird flu has been detected in dairy cows and their milk on farms in Texas and in Kansas for the first time ever. Tests revealed that an unknown number of cows were positive for Type A H5N1 ...
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 ...
A person in Texas has been diagnosed with a highly virulent strain of bird flu, the first such case since the virus was ...
Dairy cows in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico fell sick due to the bird flu, the latest case of the virus spreading to mammals, the US Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration ...
Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD, is a correspondent for NPR's Science Desk. For nearly a decade, she has been reporting for the radio and the web for NPR's global health outlet, Goats and Soda.
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 ...