ACSH As High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) cases emerge in dairy cattle, transmission routes and the source of infection remain unclear. Before jumping to conclusions, what can science tell us?
“The ongoing spread of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) in different regions of the world, alongside the recent detections of cases in cattle, is raising concerns within the international community…. In the last two years, an increasing number of H5N1 avian influenza cases have been reported in terrestrial and aquatic mammalians animals.
The recently reported detections of HPAI (High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza) in dairy cattle in the United States of … have raised concerns since such infections of cattle could indicate an increased risk of H5N1 viruses becoming better adapted to mammals, and potentially spilling over to humans and other livestock.”
H5N1, the Avian Flu, is a growing problem for us. For the chickens, it has led to the culling of 85 million birds in an attempt to isolate cases. While the map shows that the most significant number of cases has been in the
upper mid-West, the 30-day map shows a concentration of cases in Texas, where those first cases involving dairy cows have occurred.