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The U.S’s biggest dairy-producing state is being squeezed by the recent outbreak of bird flu, which also affects cattle—and ...
Hickman's Family Farms plans to lay off at least 85 employees in August after an avian flu outbreak forced them to euthanize 6 million chickens.
Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...
Masaio Ishizuka, a senior epidemiologist at the Sao Paulo University, said evidence suggests migratory birds have now ...
Dairy digester on a Central Valley farm helping to reduce methane emissions. (Chelsea Preble/UC Berkeley) A new study from researchers at the University of California, Riverside shows the ...
On average, ferrets infected with H5N1 bird flu lost nearly 10% of their body weight and had fevers. They were lethargic, and had nasal and ocular discharge along with sneezing. Since 2022, there have ...
TONOPAH, Ariz. — State agriculture officials announced Friday a fourth commercial farm in Maricopa County has tested positive for the avian flu. Meanwhile, the egg company at the center of the ...
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 ...
The study, published in medRxiv, examined the stability of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in raw cow and sheep milk, with researchers simulating storage conditions common in dairy settings. “High ...
The study hasn’t tested if the vaccine protects adult dairy cows from bird flu. The USDA reports 17 cattle herds have been infected in Idaho in May, the highest of any state in the last month.
The strain of bird flu that infected a Michigan dairy worker in May 2024 is capable of airborne transmission, according to new research from the CDC.