NAIROBI: A significant number of farmers has incurred huge losses from treatments, loss of milk and even death of high yielding cows from milk fever and Ketosis. This has created fear of keeping high ...

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, ...

When producers talk about hypocalcemia today, the focus has shifted to subclinical hypocalcemia. Unlike clinical milk fever, it’s a disease that doesn’t show any visible signs. “You can’t determine ...

Dairy farms facing an outbreak will have economic losses from caring for sick animals and the temporary reduction in milk sales. The Food and Drug Administration, which announced the early results ...

U.S. regulators confirmed that sick cattle in Texas, Kansas and possibly in New Mexico contracted avian influenza. They stressed that the nation’s milk supply is safe. By Emily Anthes A form of avian ...

Five cows in the United States have been infected and died from bird flu or slaughtered because they did not recover, Reuters reports. Bird flu, also known as avian influenza or H5N1 virus, refers to ...

Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and ...

New cases in Italy, France and Spain underscore the importance of surveillance and preparedness in U.S. herds.

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...