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K-State research finds milking may spread bovine H5N1

By Elizabeth Bobenhausen Poultry Times staff ebobenhausen@poultrytimes.com

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GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Research at Kansas State University is looking into milking practices and whether these are contributing factors to the spread of the bovine H5N1 influenza virus among dairy cattle.

Juergen Richt, a Kansas State University distinguished professor in diagnostic medicine and pathobiology and director of the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Center of Excellence and Zoonotic Animal Diseases, has published a paper called “H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b dynamics in experimentally infected calves and cows” in the journal Nature.

Earlier this year, avian bovine influenza affected more than 200 dairy cow farms in 14 states. It was thought. . .

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