The prospect of an outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle triggering a pandemic in humans is one step closer than ...

In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an ...

Scientists are on alert for changes in the H5N1 or bird flu virus that could signal it is adapting to spread among humans. The virus has caused serious, sometimes fatal, infections among people and ...

in March a farm worker who reported no contact with sick or dead birds, but who was in contact with dairy cattle, began showing symptoms in the eye and samples were collected by the regional health ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that the H5N1 avian flu, commonly known as bird flu, has spread to 36 dairy cow herds across nine states since April 30. Birds, ...

Cows have entry portals for both human and bird flus. This new finding may mean that cattle could host both types of flus at once. The two viruses could then swap parts to create a new type of ...