United States undercounts bird flu in cattle as farmers shun testing By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek, August 15, 2024 WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, August 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. bird-flu outbreak in dairy cattle is much larger than official figures suggest due to farmers’ reluctance to test their animals and risk the economic consequences of a positive […]
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USDA reports reveal biosecurity risks at H5N1-affected dairy farms By Lisa Schnirring, June 13, 2024 Shared equipment and shared personnel working on multiple dairy farms are some of the main risk factors for ongoing spread of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu in dairy cows, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection […]
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Opinion: Good biosecurity critical to mitigating the spread of H5N1 By Tom Vilsack, June 21, 2024 The more we learn about H5N1, the more we understand that good biosecurity is a critically important path to containing the virus. Containing and eliminating the virus in our dairy cattle is essential – to protect the health of […]
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FDA says new study proves pasteurization process kills bird flu in milk after all By Alexander Tin, June 28, 2024 A pasteurization approach widely used in the dairy industry proved to be effective at killing bird flu in milk after all, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday, after an earlier federal lab study raised questions about […]
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USDA to Begin Accepting Applications for Expanded Emergency Livestock Assistance Program to Help Dairy Producers Offset Milk Loss Due to H5N1 June 27, 2024 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will begin accepting applications starting on Monday, July 1 through its updated Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-raised Fish Program (ELAP) to provide financial […]
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Why All the Fuss about Avian Influenza? Lauren Bryan, July 8, 2024 You’re coughing and you feel miserable. Is it “the flu”? Maybe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that, most years, around 30 million people in the United States will become ill with influenza, and more than 20,000 of them will die. But what […]
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Bird flu response in Michigan sparks COVID-era worry on farms Tom Polansek , P.j. Huffstutter and Leah Douglas, July 11, 2024 MARTIN, Michigan, July 10 (Reuters) – Some dairy farmers are resisting Michigan’s nation-leading efforts to stop the spread of bird flu for fear their incomes will suffer from added costs and hurt rural America. The government’s restrictions, which […]
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House mice test positive for H5N1 bird flu June 4, 2024 June 4 (BNO) – Nearly a dozen house mice in New Mexico have tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, according to federal officials, adding them to the growing list of mammals being infected with avian influenza. To learn more, visit the BNO website >>>
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Texas bird flu strain kills ferrets used to mimic disease in humans, US CDC says Nancy Lapid, June 7, 2024 June 7 (Reuters) – The bird flu virus strain that infected a Texas dairy farm worker in March was lethal to ferrets in experiments designed to mimic the disease in humans, the U.S. Centers for […]
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USDA reports more H5N1 detections in mice and cats Lisa Schnirring, June 11, 2024 June 11 (UMN) – In its latest updates, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reported 36 more H5N1 avian flu detections in house mice, all in the same New Mexico county, as well as […]
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