The newly infected Nevada herds were detected January 31 ... Lakdawala says the finding raises critical questions about how dairy cattle are being exposed and whether it’s possible to contain ...

The USDA confirmed the virus's existence in the Nevada dairy cattle through milk sampling, the agency said. The Nevada Department of Agriculture said the affected cattle, which are located in ...

Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new strain of bird flu virus different from the one circulating in other herds throughout the past year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ...

The detection of the variant in Nevada marks one of the few new pieces ... slow to be shared Worries about bird flu go beyond dairy cattle. Last month saw an uptick in outbreaks among poultry ...

Researchers aren’t sure how the D1.1 variant was transmitted to the Nevada cows. Dairy farmers with infected herds reported large die-offs of wild birds near their farms before their cows got ...

Finding D1.1 in dairy cows caught investigators off-guard ... Researchers are still trying to pin down exactly how the cows in Nevada became infected. One theory has to do with nonnative European ...

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) first confirmed the virus, genotype D1.1, was found in Nevada dairy cattle Jan. 31. All previous detections in dairy cattle were a ...

(CNN) — Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer variant of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with severe infections in humans, according to ...