The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering vaccination plans to protect poultry and cattle, including dairy cows, from ...

The number of pathways that avian influenza can be transferred between dairy herds, and to poultry flocks, is extensive.

The detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, subtype H5N1 in dairy cattle was confirmed in March 2024 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA. This finding was the first of its ...

A genotype of highly pathogenic avian influenza previously identified in wild birds has been found for the first time in dairy cattle, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. Genotype D1.1 ...

The vaccine will offer protection against H5N1 and is projected to be effective against future viral mutations.

“The recent discovery that dairy cattle can be infected by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus of the H5N1 subtype, in combination with the virus’s propensity to replicate in the ...

The last of Colorado’s dairy cows infected with bird flu have been released from quarantine. By Molly Cruse · Oct. 29, ... (HPAI) — was detected in wild birds in Colorado in 2022.

Only one case of HPAI in dairy cows has been identified in Idaho this month. “We had the surge in May and June,” state veterinarian Leibsle said, but it’s tough to say what’s ahead.

The week of March 25, 2024, when the USDA announced the confirmation of HPAI type H5N1 in dairy cattle, TVMDL tested 138 samples from 12 Texas, New Mexico and Kansas dairy farms.

Charlie Neibergall/AP, file. Cows stand in the milking parlor of a dairy farm on Monday, July 24, 2023.

Because of this, researchers believe that the disease was being transmitted to cows by contaminated milk equipment. In the last six months, more than 75% of Colorado’s dairy herds were infected ...