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In recent years, highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus has been sporadically detected in various mammalian hosts and, most recently, in dairy cattle in the USA — from which over a ...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday that the H5N1 virus was discovered in meat from a single cull dairy cow as part of testing of 96 dairy cows. APHIS said the meat ...

Blood tests of several people who were in contact with a patient in Missouri who caught H5N1 bird flu without any known exposure to infected animals reveal that at least one of them — a person ...

Helen Branswell, STAT’s infectious disease reporter, has been writing about H5N1 bird flu for 20 years. If you’re aware of the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cattle — you may have seen ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to spread and cause severe symptoms in other mammals. H5N1 bird flu is ...

To date, 46 people have been diagnosed with bird flu, also known as H5N1, in the United States this year. All but one of those patients had been exposed to sick cattle or poultry on farms.

As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread around the US, health officials recently found that 7 percent of dairy workers tested on farms in two states had evidence of recent infection — and some had ...