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US orders testing for certain dairy cows after H5N1 avian flu remnants found in retail milk ( www.cidrap.umn.edu )
A day after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that H5N1 avian flu fragments have been found in retail milk samples, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that lactating dairy cows must be tested before interstate transport....
U.S. government in hot seat for response to growing cow flu outbreak ( www.science.org )
“Thijs Kuiken, an avian influenza researcher at Erasmus Medical Center, says the “very sparse” information released by the U.S. government has international implications, too. State and federal animal health authorities have “abundant information … that [has] not been made public, but would be informative for health...
H5N1 bird flu virus particles found in pasteurized milk but FDA says commercial milk supply appears safe ( www.statnews.com )
“The agency said it has been trying to see if it could grow virus from milk found to contain evidence of H5N1, which is the gold standard test to see if there is viable virus in a product. The lengthy statement the agency released does not explicitly say FDA laboratories were unable to find live virus in the milk samples, but...
Genetic analysis reveals H5N1 flu virus outbreak in cows likely started earlier than thought ( www.statnews.com )
The genetic data point to a single spillover event that probably occurred in late 2023, Michael Worobey, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Arizona, told STAT on Tuesday.