Cows undergoing extra testing ahead of county fair season due to bird flu risk
County fair season is in full swing in Minnesota, but things are different this year for kids looking to show dairy cows.
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County fair season is in full swing in Minnesota, but things are different this year for kids looking to show dairy cows.
County fair season is in full swing in Minnesota, but things are different this year for kids looking to show dairy cows. Nearly 150 herds have tested positive for the bird flu across the country. As John Lauritsen shows us, that means extra testing for our local county fairs.
The FDA said its study better simulated how commercial milk processing kills the bird flu virus, H5N1.
Three months into the U.S. bird flu outbreak, only 45 people have been tested. Laboratories that are the foundation of diagnostic testing have yet to get approval to detect the bird flu virus, blaming miscommunication and uncertainty from the CDC and FDA.
As poultry farmers take action, dairy farmers are facing new requirements after some cows in central and southern Minnesota tested positive.
Concerns over the spread of avian bird flu are carrying over to the dairy cow industry. Earlier this spring, the H5N1 virus was detected in three dairy cow herds in Minnesota. The virus hasn’t been fatal for cows, but it’s caused state officials to take unprecedented steps to stop the spread. John Lauritsen visited a farm near Lake Lillian to show us one way farmers are taking action.
An experiment found "small but detectable" amounts of infectious H5N1 virus in milk after it was pasteurized for 15 seconds.
A Minnesota dairy herd is quarantined after several cows became ill with the bird flu. An agriculture specialist from the University of Minnesota answers the big questions.
Lab tests have confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza in a dairy herd in Benson County, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say pasteurized dairy products remain safe to consume.
The steep loss from the top egg-producing state triggered a disaster proclamation from Iowa's governor.
The spread of an avian flu virus in cattle has again brought public health attention to the potential for a global pandemic. Fighting it would depend, for now, on 1940s technology that makes vaccines from hens' eggs.
The USDA announced Monday that testing and reporting of bird flu is now required in livestock transported across state lines.
Federal officials say they're double checking whether pasteurization has eradicated the danger from possible bird virus particles in milk.
Minnesota dairy farmers are on the lookout after officials announced Friday that a herd of cattle in South Dakota tested positive for bird flu.
Bird flu has spread to dairy cattle across the U.S., causing cows to produce less milk.
A young goat in western Minnesota has tested positive for bird flu — a case that is the first of its kind in the United States.
Rampant avian flu that has impacted millions of birds in the U.S. has now killed a polar bear for the first time ever recorded.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture reported the infected commercial poultry flocks within weeks of a turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah reporting the first outbreaks in the U.S. since April.
Bird flu was confirmed Wednesday in a flock of 140,000 turkeys in central Minnesota, officials said.
Bird flu was confirmed Wednesday in a flock of 140,000 turkeys in central Minnesota, officials said.
Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks this season, affecting one turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah.
While the same strain of bird flu is still around, cases are down significantly. John Lauritsen talked with experts about the reasons why and what it means for consumers.
A year ago, poultry farms across the state were dealing with a bird flu outbreak. More than 100 Minnesota farms were hit by avian influenza, forcing them to euthanize 3½ million birds.
Bird flu has returned to Minnesota less than four months after the deadly poultry disease was last detected in the state, the Board of Animal Health said Monday.
