Highly pathogenic avian flu, or bird flu, recently spread to dairy cattle in the United States, and infections are increasingly popping up at farms across the country. In Texas, at least one farmworker was infected. So is it only a matter of time before bird flu infects dairies in Utah?
The day after it was reported that a person in Texas became infected with bird flu from dairy cattle, the state of Utah is preparing for any and all possibilities that could come west.
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The outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu among the nation’s dairy cows is creeping closer to Utah as a herd in southern Idaho was confirmed last week to have the same virus.