The H5N1 strain of avian influenza—commonly known as bird flu—has been circulating among wild migratory birds for the past two years, with substantial spillover into poultry farms. But what's sparking ...

The case was confirmed in a dairy worker in Colorado. The fourth human case of bird flu linked to the current dairy cow outbreak was confirmed on Wednesday in a dairy worker in Colorado, according to ...

On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say. On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, ...

Reliance on individual dairy farmers to help track the spread of avian flu is leaving the federal government without the data necessary to understand — and slow — the virus’ spread in the U.S. The ...

In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an ...

A dairy worker in Michigan contracted an eye infection on a dairy farm where H5N1 had been identified in cows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

A mystery disease was ripping through the cattle in the Texas panhandle. In early March, roughly three weeks after veterinarians in the panhandle spoke about the first illnesses, one of us (Russo) ...