The Colorado State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory will be testing the samples. Herds currently under quarantine ...

The Colorado Department of Agriculture is implementing mandatory milk tank testing to curb the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza. The state veterinarian’s executive order requires weekly ...

Colorado will require dairies to test their milk supplies for bird flu every ... s chickens were culled due to avian flu infection. “Mandatory surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

There are no imminent plans to broaden the mandatory testing of raw milk for avian flu at dairies beyond Colorado, where the testing recently identified 10 new infected herds, according to federal ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Colorado began requiring dairies to test milk supplies for bird flu every week ... in cows that has spread to chickens and people. The state’s new mandate aims to identify ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Mothers' Milk Bank (MMB) is a nonprofit milk bank dedicated to the collection, processing, ...

The Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) today reported its first avian flu outbreaks in dairy herds that are based on mandatory weekly bulk-tank milk testing, which went into effect on July 22.

Ten new outbreaks of bird flu were found in Colorado dairy herds as the result of mandatory testing of milk samples from bulk tanks on the farms, reported the state’s Agriculture Department. The state ...

The outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in US dairy cows has now spread to three herds in California, the largest milk-producing state in the country with around 1.7 million dairy cows, federal and state health ...

as the pasteurization process of milk kills any pathogens. The testing requirement was triggered by the mass infection of the state’s chicken population. About 70 percent of Colorado’s chickens were ...