In a conference call, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says the increased testing of dairy cattle for the H5N1 virus has continued to prove the virus is not generally fatal to cattle, and the virus has not changed to be able to infect humans.
USDA s APHIS released its final ruling on cattle traceability, putting into place the requirement for certain classes of the cattle herd to have an electronic identification tag for interstate movement.
Dairy cattle infected by avian influenza in recent months have surprisingly large amounts of the virus in their milk but little in other bodily fluids, according to tests by the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. That makes it easy to confirm whether a lactating cow is infected but makes testing more difficult for other […] The post Bird flu virus is abundant in the milk of sick cows appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.
In a conference call, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says the increased testing of dairy cattle for the H5N1 virus has continued to prove the virus is not generally fatal to cattle, and the virus has not changed to be able to infect humans.
In a conference call, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says the increased testing of dairy cattle for the H5N1 virus has continued to prove the virus is not generally fatal to cattle, and the virus has not changed to be able to infect humans.