The dairy industry has been plagued by a persistent global problem for decades—bacterial infection of cow udders that ...

Cow udders may provide a hotspot for bird flu and human flu viruses to mingle. The prospect of an outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle triggering a pandemic in humans is one step closer than ...

Within the last 30 days, there’s been 16 new confirmed cases of the avian flu throughout the nation. It’s not just chickens with the virus, but dairy cows. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is ...

A new study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the H5N1 bird flu virus is probably circulating undetected in livestock in many parts of the country and may be ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In February 2024, dairy farmers in the northwest corner of the Texas ...

Somatic cell count (SCC) can often start to rise in the few months of the lactation due to harsher weather, difficult grazing ...

With cows now reaching lactation yields of 13,000 litres-plus as standard, it is common for them to still be giving 40 litres ...

Swiss authorities have identified a cow with the infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR), a respiratory disease, in the eastern canton of Grisons, local officials said on Wednesday.

Prof Mary Chan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Dr Kaixi Zhang from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research ...