Share on Pinterest The transmission of a new strain of the H5N1 bird flu to herds of dairy cows has raised concerns over how the virus is mutating. Andrew Fox/Getty Images A new strain of bird flu has ...

John O’Donovan has spent the last 15 years building up his 380-cow dairy herd on his West Cork farm, following a move away from beef farming in 2010.

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 ...

File - Dairy cows stand in a field outside of a milking barn at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Animal Disease Center research facility in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo ...

In unpublished research, researchers found live virus on equipment, in wastewater and in the air in so-called milking parlors. By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes The bird flu virus that has beset ...

Three of America’s top milk-producing states aren’t a part of federal surveillance testing for bird flu even as a new variant is turning up in dairy cattle, in what some public health experts say is a ...

As a second strain of bird flu has spread to dairy cows, influenza experts tell Newsweek that consumers should not be concerned about drinking pasteurized milk. Newsweek reached out via email to the U ...

Having grown up on a small dairy farm in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, Terry Canning was well aware that dairy cows were vital to his upbringing—but they weren’t meant to be his future. Instead, ...