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Officials said the Avian flu has been detected in milk from cows found on an Arizona farm. Here's what we know.
The Arizona Department of Agriculture, working closely with the USDA detected a strain of avian influenza in milk in Maricopa ...
The risk to the public remained low, but people in close contact with dairy cattle may be at an increased risk, the state ...
Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...
Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...
Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...
The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK ...
Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and 9 N subtypes. Only those labeled ...
"Because avian H5N1 viruses cross the species barrier and adapt to dairy cattle, each associated human infection presents further opportunity for mammal adaption," the study authors wrote in ...
Over 50% of cats on a Texas dairy farm contracted an infection after consuming H5N1-contaminated cow milk. However, the infectious dose required for humans to become sick from drinking ...
We don't have to worry about any extra work,” said John Haag. John Haag is one of the owners of Haag’s dairy, a farm with about 115 milking cows. He wants to keep all of them safe from avian flu.