Avian influenza virus from the ongoing outbreak in dairy cattle appears to be keeping its bird-infecting features rather than ...

H5N1 influenza outbreaks have been reported on more than 1.070 dairy farms in the United States since 2024. The virus ...

California’s state veterinarian tells U.S. House subcommittee that because infected dairy cattle are allowed to develop ...

Dairies say the USDA relief money helped them sustain operations as bird flu decimated milk production, but critics say the ...

Preexisting immunity to the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus provided near-complete protection against severe H5N1 disease and ...

Infecting dairy cattle hasn’t yet given H5N1 bird flu an evolutionary boost toward easy person-to-person spread. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images By Tina Hesman Saey April 28, 2025 at 9:00 am ...

Bird flu, also known as H5N1, has been around for decades. But the discovery in 2024 that the virus spread from wild birds to cows came as a surprise to public health experts, according to officials.

She says the H5N1 is deadly to chickens and poultry, it can easily be contracted by humans and dairy cows. “We want them to really focus on what we call biosecurity, which is using good ...

A new H5N1 bird flu mutation has appeared in a cluster of infected dairy cows. It's a genetic change that scientists say could not only make the virus more lethal, but increase its spread between ...

These results are particularly relevant as the ocular route appears to be the common infection pathway for people who work directly with dairy cows. “Baloxavir conveyed 100% survival compared to ...