U.S. health and agriculture officials are ramping up testing and tracking of bird flu in dairy cows in an urgent effort to understand — and stop — the growing outbreak. So far, the risk to humans ...

In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an ...

Scientists are on alert for changes in the H5N1 or bird flu virus that could signal it is adapting to spread among humans. The virus has caused serious, sometimes fatal, infections among people and ...

H5N1 bird flu is branching out. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that a second type of H5N1 has likely spread from dairy cows to humans. The CDC and health ...

Have you ever wondered who saw a cow and felt they could milk it? Who were the first humans to milk a cow [dairygoodcow] It’s kind of strange that humans saw cow udders and thought of drinking the ...

What if you could have a conversation with a cow and ask it questions? That’s what Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University wanted to do. And they had a number of questions in ...