Bird flu has circled the globe for decades, but the discovery last year that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow upped the stakes. This outbreak has decimated poultry flocks ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is studying animals at the National Animal Disease Center in Iowa in an attempt to stop the bird flu outbreak that is spreading through U.S. animals.

Welcome to the National Animal Disease Center, a government research facility in Iowa where 43 scientists work with pigs, cows, and other animals, pushing to solve the bird flu outbreak currently ...

Rasmussen is one of a number of experts STAT spoke to who are not convinced cow flu shots are the answer to this dilemma. The need to stop transmission of the virus in cows is pressing — more ...

AMES, Iowa (AP) — At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance w ...

On April 2, 2024, a dairy worker in Texas came down sick. He was infected with the avian flu that was most likely spreading from cow to cow. The cow-to-cow spread became evident as cow herds in ...

Bird flu has been circling the globe for decades. So the discovery in 2024 that the deadly pathogen had jumped from a wild bird to a cow came as a shock to virus watchers. Now, in just over a year ...

Now we have a lot of cow-to-cow transmission, and it’s been a big challenge for our dairy farmers in California.” Over 330 dairy herds across 14 states have had infected cows, according to U.S ...

The strain of bird flu is distinct from what has previously been found in dairy cattle. The finding raises some worrying questions — and concerns over the Trump administration's muted response.

Recent health updates include global reactions to Brazil's bird flu outbreak, South Korean medical students' return amid ...

After the H5N1 bird flu unexpectedly jumped into U.S. dairy cows, they quickly got to work and began testing a new cow vaccine in June They hope to reduce the risk that bird flu will someday ...

And work there during the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 — known at the time as “swine flu” — proved the virus was confined to the respiratory tract of pigs and that pork was safe to eat.