NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past two years, bird flu has been blamed for the deaths of millions of wild and domestic birds worldwide. It has killed legions of seals and sea lions, wiped out mink farms and sent out cats, dogs, skunks, foxes and even a polar bear. But it hardly seems to … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past two years, bird flu has been blamed for the deaths of millions of wild and domestic birds worldwide. It has killed legions of seals and sea lions, wiped out mink farms and sent out cats, dogs, skunks, foxes and even a polar bear. But it hardly seems to … Read more
Colorado has highly pathogenic bird flu – also known as HPAI or bird flu – on a dairy farm, the ninth state with confirmed cases. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories confirmed the virus in a herd in northeastern Colorado on April 25, 2024. According to the USDA, this farm is one … Read more
At the beginning of March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large animal veterinarian in Texas, gets calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there saw many cows with mastitis, an udder infection. Their milk was thickened and discolored, and this couldn’t be explained by the usual suspects like bacteria or tissue … Read more