Bird flu articles
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Cows have human flu receptors, study shows, raising stakes on bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle
By Brenda Goodman and Nadia Kounang, CNN (CNN) — In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an infection of the udder. Their milk was thickened and discolored, and it
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Cows have human flu receptors, study shows, raising stakes on bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle
By Brenda Goodman and Nadia Kounang, CNN (CNN) — In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an infection of the udder. Their milk was thickened and discolored, and it
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Bird flu's wild range
The flu virus spreading in dairy cattle in the U.S. has infected a wide range of wild animals since 2020.