"Because avian H5N1 viruses cross the species barrier and adapt to dairy cattle, each associated human infection presents further opportunity for mammal adaption," the study authors wrote in ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been around since the 1990s, but this current bird flu pandemic started in Asia in 2020, ...

A new study reveals that bird flu can persist in raw milk for days. Study: Stability of influenza viruses in the milk of cows and sheep. Image credit: pan demin/Shutterstock.com ...

Drinking water, eye drops, and injections are used to vaccinate birds if one ever becomes available in the United States. Dairy cows are more of a priority for a bird flu vaccine.

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Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...

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Kennedy Jr. is a fan of raw milk, or cow's milk that hasn't been pasteurized. No processing, just straight from the utter. Proponents of raw milk like to say that pasteurization, a heating process ...

The bird flu virus can remain infectious in raw milk for over a day at room temperature and more than a week when refrigerated, according to a new, non-peer-reviewed research from a group of UK ...

Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and 9 N subtypes. Only those labeled ...