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Domestic birds host for bovine influenza A virus

Epidemiologist says there is “still lots” to investigate about how virus jumped from from birds to dairy cattle

Domestic birds that live in and around barns have been confirmed as the avian hosts of an outbreak on dairy farms in the United States of highly pathogenic avian influenza. An April 16 update from the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the avian host in this outbreak wasn’t migratory waterfowl, as has […] Read more