Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Vol. 21, No. 4 (December 2016), pp. 601-618 (18 pages) The association between infection times of the udder quarters of a dairy cow ...

Scientists say that findings from a small experiment lend hope the outbreak among dairy cattle can potentially be contained. By Carl Zimmer Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting ...

(From left) Prof Mary Chan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Dr Kaixi Zhang from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and Prof Paula Hammond from the Massachusetts ...

The H5N1 bird flu virus has been around for decades, and the damage it wreaks on chickens and other poultry is well documented. But the recent discovery that the virus has jumped into dairy cattle — ...

Cow udders may provide a hotspot for bird flu and human flu viruses to mingle. The prospect of an outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle triggering a pandemic in humans is one step closer than ...

A new study looking at the distribution of receptors that flu viruses can attach to in different cow tissues may help to explain the pattern of illness being seen in the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in U ...

The Busch family also records individual udder scores at calving. When tagging the calf, they observe and score the cow’s ...

The dairy industry has been plagued by a persistent global problem for decades - bacterial infection of cow udders that significantly reduces milk production. The condition, known as bovine mastitis, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AMES, Iowa (AP) — At first glance, it looks ...

IT WORKS TO KEEP MIDEAST TENSIONS FROM BOILING OVER. RIGHT NOW, THE CDC HAS A NEW INITIATIVE TO GET SEASONAL FLU VACCINES FOR LIVESTOCK WORKERS WHO ARE AT RISK OF CATCHING BIRD FLU. THE SEASONAL ...