A new study looking at the distribution of receptors that flu viruses can attach to in different cow tissues may help to explain the pattern of illness being seen in the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in U ...

Scientists say that findings from a small experiment lend hope the outbreak among dairy cattle can potentially be contained. By Carl Zimmer Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting ...

(From left) Prof Mary Chan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Dr Kaixi Zhang from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and Prof Paula Hammond from the Massachusetts ...

The H5N1 bird flu virus has been around for decades, and the damage it wreaks on chickens and other poultry is well documented. But the recent discovery that the virus has jumped into dairy cattle — ...

At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance with a tractor parked alongside. But the people who work there are ...

IT WORKS TO KEEP MIDEAST TENSIONS FROM BOILING OVER. RIGHT NOW, THE CDC HAS A NEW INITIATIVE TO GET SEASONAL FLU VACCINES FOR LIVESTOCK WORKERS WHO ARE AT RISK OF CATCHING BIRD FLU. THE SEASONAL ...

The dairy industry has been plagued by a persistent global problem for decades - bacterial infection of cow udders that significantly reduces milk production. The condition, known as bovine mastitis, ...

In the dairy barn on the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus, rows of dairy cows moo, awaiting their daily milking. The site of a University pilot project, the barn is one of many places in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AMES, Iowa (AP) — At first glance, it looks ...

Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting American cows earlier this year, they have been puzzling over how it spreads from one animal to another. An experiment carried out in Kansas and ...