Raw milk comes directly from cows, sheep or goats. Some health and food safety experts say drinking raw milk doesn’t come without health risks. Lately, those concerns have been elevated as a deadly ...

As California’s Central Valley makes headlines for the growing number of people testing positive for the bird flu from exposure to dairy cows, Rais Vohra, MD, professor at UC San Francisco, Fresno and ...

Research shows that bird flu outbreaks tend to affect the price of eggs more than the cost of chickens and turkeys. Over the last year, many states restricted imports of dairy cattle from states ...

This is more [akin] to older strains of bird flu we've seen, which have a fatality rate in humans of as high as roughly 50%—not a number anyone wants to hear. But it does mean that human exposure to ...

The story of bird flu in this country could ... eliminate the virus from the nation’s dairy herds—a tall order, when no one knows exactly how many cattle have been affected or even how ...

dairy, and poultry are currently being closely monitored by government authorities for the presence of bird flu. When bird flu is found in a flock or group of cows, they are often culled (killed ...

California county fairs and shows will no longer include poultry and dairy cattle exhibitions as the state deals with the spread of H5N1 bird flu. California county fairs and shows will no longer ...

About two-thirds of the recent bird flu cases in humans came from exposure to infected dairy cows. But the outbreak in cattle has yet to be contained. The U.S. Department of Agriculture first ...

However, since April 1, 2024, four workers on U.S. dairy farms have tested positive for bird flu after interacting with cattle: two in Michigan, one in Texas, and, most recently, one in Colorado.

But last week the CDC reported the first bird flu death in the United States ... two main genotypes of H5N1 that are circulating in dairy cows and poultry and wild birds respectively — have ...