Cow udders may provide a hotspot for bird flu and human flu viruses to mingle. 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 ...

A new study looking at the distribution of receptors that flu viruses can attach to in different cow tissues may help to explain the pattern of illness being seen in the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in U ...

On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say. On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, ...

The risk of the bird flu outbreak among dairy cows in the US triggering a human flu pandemic may be lower than feared. Cow udders have lots of bird-like flu virus binding sites but no human-like ones, ...

In March 2024, the USDA confirmed that dairy cattle in Texas and Kansas had become infected with a highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 strain. Scientists have been monitoring H5N1 infections in ...

Dutch authorities have detected antibodies linked to the H5N1 avian influenza virus in a dairy cow, marking the first known ...

Modern parenting often sees a clash between “natural” choices and scientific advice, where the desire to raise their children closer to nature sometimes puts them at odds with medical guidance.