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
When the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced late Sunday that it had publicly posted new data from its investigation into an outbreak of bird flu in cattle, scientists eagerly sought out a well-known platform used worldwide to share the genetic sequences of viruses. The sequences weren’t there. As of Tuesday morning, they still aren’t. Researchers … Read more
Forget spring: This week, much of the interior U.S. gets a taste of summer. A wave of unusually high temperatures — often 30 to 40 degrees above average — is blasting states from Texas to the Dakotas and east to the shores of the Great Lakes. That heat follows the hottest December on record, and … Read more