Which gave rise, recently, to a troubling thought: Will our efforts against H5N1 — or bird flu, as we know it — bind us to a similar Sisyphean-like struggle? But alone, they dismiss an ...

H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of strains fueling this past year's outbreaks in the U.S., with different variants of that virus spreading in wild birds, poultry flocks, dairy cattle ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

The finding may not seem surprising, given the sweeping and ongoing outbreak of H5N1 among dairy farms in the US, which has reached 968 herds in 16 states and led to infections in 41 dairy workers.

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By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli covered the Covid-19 and mpox outbreaks, and has tracked the spread of H5N1 since 2003. When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed ...

CNN reports a Nevada dairy worker may have been infected by deadly D1.1 version of H5N1 bird flu Worker shows only mild symptoms Genetic analyses of this version show changes that could make it ...

A dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu—genotype D1.1—that has newly spilled over to cows, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed.

Pasteurization is the only widely recognized method of killing H5N1, the virus that causes bird flu, in milk. However, pasteurization can be expensive and fewer than 50% of large dairy farms ...

A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu Health officials say she was likely infected via handling sick birds in a backyard flock The woman is “an older adult” with “other ...

It appears that there may have been another spillover of H5N1 bird flu virus from wild birds into dairy cattle. The Arizona Department of Agriculture announced Friday that it had found the virus ...