(CNN) — In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, ...

Avian influenza has raged through Michigan's bird population for two years, forcing commercial farmers and people with backyard coops to kill nearly 6.8 million infected chickens and turkeys, ...

CHICAGO, June 7 (Reuters) - The outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows has now been confirmed in Minnesota and Iowa, bringing to 11 the total number of affected states, which have been encouraged to ...

Cows have entry portals for both human and bird flus. This new finding may mean that cattle could host both types of flus at once. The two viruses could then swap parts to create a new type of ...

Their findings, published as a preprint study, show that cows have the same receptors for flu viruses as humans and birds. Scientists fear that cows could be mixing bowls – hosts that help the virus ...