Scientists have now traced why the H5N1 bird flu virus that jumped into U.S. dairy herds keeps turning up in cows’ udders and milk instead of their lungs. Controlled infections and lab work on cow ...

When highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu spilled into U.S. dairy herds in 2024, veterinarians saw something strange: cows were not dying of pneumonia, but developing severe mastitis as the virus attacked ...

Milk production in dairy cow udders is a complex and dynamic physiological process that has resisted explanatory modelling thus far. The current standard model, Wood’s model, is empirical in nature, ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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, is ...

Automated milking systems improve consistency and generate valuable data, but dairy farmers remain responsible for cow ...