The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed a new spillover of H5N1 avian flu in dairy cattle. This new detection involves the D1.1 ...
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.
Bird flu can be transmitted from infected birds to other animals and potentially humans directly from the birds, virus-contaminated environments or an infected animal, according to the CDC.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a strain of bird flu associated with a man's death in January.