A US farm worker walks between rows of cows being milked at a California farm. For the past 12 years, Freddy Morales has spent most of his time in close proximity to America’s dairy cows ...
Two groups of researchers have used animal models to characterize the H5N1 virus isolated from an infected dairy farm worker in Texas, who presented with mild conjunctivitis. Analysis of this ...
Seven percent of tested workers on dairy farms where cows were infected with bird flu caught the virus themselves, according to a new study. The study proved that more workers were catching bird ...
The good news: the dairy worker experienced mild symptoms and fully recovered, and the H5N1 strain that infected the worker does not appear to have continued spreading in the wild. Still, the ...
A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in a Texas dairy worker who was infected this spring was able to spread among ferrets through the air, although inefficiently, and killed 100% of infected ...
At one farm, workers lived in a converted barn that was infested with cockroaches. The "kitchen sink" was a utility sink next to a water heater. Photos from civil complaint. It was the biggest ...