Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although H5N1 typically infects wild birds, the virus has spilled over into domesticated animal populations, like dairy cows.

Seven percent of tested workers on dairy farms where cows were infected with bird flu caught the virus themselves, according to a new study. The study proved that more workers were catching bird flu ...

CDC report shows H5N1 infection in veterinarians who did not know they were working with infected cattle The veterinarians had no symptoms but have antibodies in their blood One of the veterinarians ...

More than two years after H5N1 bird flu was first detected in U.S. dairy cattle, the virus has proven remarkably good at infecting cows and flooding raw milk with viral material. What it has not done, ...

We describe a new study that reveals dairy cows infected with H5N1 are a source of contamination for humans and the ...

The current strain of avian flu, H5N1, is responsible for the culling of millions of domestic birds and has sickened more than a dozen farmworkers in 2024, most recently in Colorado. The Conversation ...