Herd of cows eating hay in a dairy farm. (STOCK PHOTO/Adobe Stock) (NEW YORK) — A second type of bird flu has been found in ...

Although it is standard procedure to kill flocks with the outbreak of bird flu, posts on social media twisted the truth.

A branch of the H5N1 bird flu family tree that hadn't previously been seen in cattle has now been detected in dairy cows.

Among several more outbreaks on commercial farms, one was at a layer facility in Pennsylvania that has nearly 2 million birds ...

While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

Avian flu first made the jump from birds into dairy cows on farms in a number of US states in spring 2024. Until now, all ...