U.S. officials pledged new spending and other efforts Friday to help track and contain an outbreak of bird flu in the nation's dairy cows.
FILE - Dairy cows stand together at a farm, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Clinton, Maine. Federal health and agriculture officials pledged new spending and other efforts Friday, May 10, 2024, to help track and contain an outbreak of bird flu in the nation's dairy cows that has spread to more than 40 herds in nine states. U.S.
The incentives should help increase farmers’ willingness to test their herds, said Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, who has been monitoring the outbreak.The new spending comes more than six weeks after the first-ever detection of an avian bird flu virus in dairy cattle — andin a Texas dairy worker exposed to infected cows who developed a mild eye infection and then recovered.
“It’s still in the same nine states and that’s the most positive thing about where we are," he told reporters.
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