USDA Detects Bird Flu Strain in Dairy Cattle Not Previously Seen in Cows, According to Email Seen by Reuters
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has detected a bird flu strain in dairy cattle that previously had not been seen in cows, according to an email from the agency's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service seen by Reuters.
Another spillover of the H5N1 bird flu virus from wild birds to dairy cattle appears to have occurred, this time in Arizona.
The variant of bird flu that killed a Louisiana resident has now been found in dairy cows. Until now, the human cases of bird flu traced to cattle have been mild, mostly eye infections.
Languages: English, French On Wednesday, the USDA confirmed the detection of avian influenza in dairy cattle in Nevada, marking the second strain found in cows since last March. The virus's ...
A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows. By Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new ...
This is the first time it has been found in dairy cattle, meaning these cows caught it from wild birds, instead of another infected herd. This is the second known instance of a type of avian flu ...
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