The current outbreak of avian influenza (H5N1) in dairy cows in the US was first reported in March 2024 and has now spread to 968 dairy herds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance w. AMES, Iowa (AP) — At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm.

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.

The U.S. reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since 2017, ... The spread of avian influenza, ... including dairy cows in the United States, ...

Bird flu is spreading in cattle, but some states still aren't part of U.S. milk testing Some public experts say it's a troubling gap in the national effort to identify, detect and stop the spread ...

The bird flu strain found in cows in the United States is not easily transmitted through the air among ferrets, a new study shows, although the scientist who led the work said it had shown some ...

AMES, Iowa (AP) — At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance with a tractor parked alongside. But the ...

Welcome to the National Animal Disease Center, a government research facility in Iowa where 43 scientists work with pigs, cows and other animals, pushing to solve the bird flu outbreak currently ...

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.

The National Animal Disease Center in Ames is the place where scientists are pushing to solve the bird flu outbreak currently spreading through U.S. animals — and develop ways to stop it.