Highly pathogenic avian influenza, sometimes called bird flu, has been confirmed in alpacas for the first time, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories. The animals that tested positive were on a farm in Idaho where poultry had tested positive for the virus and were culled in May. The alpacas tested […]
SYDNEY/CANBERRA (Reuters) -Avian influenza has been detected on an egg farm near Melbourne but preliminary test results show it is not the same strain that has swept the globe and infected dairy cows in the United States, Australia’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. A number of poultry died at the farm, which has been placed […]
Bird flu was probably circulating in dairy cows for at least four months before it was confirmed to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, according to a new analysis of genomic data by scientists at the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal Disease Center. The research also found infected cattle that had no apparent connections, suggesting […]
When the US Department of Agriculture announced late Sunday that it had publicly posted new data from its investigation into a bird flu outbreak in cattle, scientists eagerly searched a well-known platform used globally to share the genetic sequences of viruses. The sequences weren’t there. As of Tuesday morning, they still aren’t. Researchers looking to […]