An epidemic of bird flue in dairy cows V USA has grown to affect 26 flocks in eight states, just weeks after the nation’s largest egg producer found the virus in its chickens, the Associated Press reported.
Health officials stress that the risk to the public is low and that the U.S. food supply remains safe and stable.
“At this time, there continues to be no concern that this circumstance poses a health risk to consumers or that it affects the safety of interstate commercial milk supplies,” the US Food and Drug Administration said in a statement.
WHICH STATES HAVE FOUND BIRD FLU IN DAIRY COWS?
As of Friday, the strain of bird flu that has killed millions of wild birds in recent years has been found in at least 26 dairy herds in eight US states: Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and South Dakota.
The virus, known as type A H5N1, has been found in a number of mammals over the past few years, but this is the first time it has been found in cattle, according to federal U.S. animal and plant health agencies. Genetic analysis of the virus does not show that it has changed to spread more easily among humans, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
In Bulgaria, in the last week, the veterinary authorities discovered three outbreaks of Influenza A – in a small poultry farm for 25,000 layers in Haskovoin a large livestock facility for breeding 390,000 broilers in the village of Voivodovo, Haskovsko and in private farm in Kardzhali district.
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