By Smriti Mallapaty A black and white cow with yellow ID tags in it’s ears grazes in a field at a dairy farm in California. Dairy cows in nine US states have tested positive for the H5N1 influenza virus, but tests have found no infectious virus in pasteurized milk.Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Researchers worry that insufficient...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainMilk sold in US stores is “safe” from the bird flu because pasteurization effectively kills the disease, American health authorities said Friday, following spread of the infection among herds of cows. An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has made its way through dairy cattle herds across the country and infected...
But what exactly is bird flu? Why is it important? Does it affect humans? What can we do about it? Matt Koci is a virologist and immunologist whose work focuses on host-microbe interactions in birds. Here, Koci, a professor in North Carolina State University’s poultry science department, explains what you should know about bird flu: Q...
