The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a brief update confirming the presence of D1.1 in Nevada dairy herds. This discovery hints at multiple spillover events from birds to cattle ...

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) said.

but this is the first time it’s been documented that D1.1 has been in a dairy cow,” Goicoechea said. The affected dairies have provided the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services with ...

While humans can contract bird flu, UNLV professor and epidemiologist Brian Labus says the latest strains are “not a general ...

A dairy worker in Nevada has been confirmed to be infected by a new bird flu strain found to be spreading among cows in the state last week. That strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus, called D1.1 by ...

but this is the first time it’s been documented that D1.1 has been in a dairy cow,” said J.J. Goicoechea, director of the Nevada Department of Agriculture. Goicoechea said the affected dairies ...

A year into the outbreak of avian flu, there is a continuing threat from the virus to poultry flocks and dairy herds, and to a lesser degree humans. Since ...

(CNN) — The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to help the virus copy itself in mammals — including humans ...

A dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu—genotype D1.1—that has newly spilled over to cows, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed.

The person was working with infected cattle at a Churchill County dairy farm before he got sick. The Central Nevada Health District is reaching out to close contacts of the infected person and ...

A senior US animal health official has urged calmness over recent academic findings suggesting that ageing may not eliminate ...