Minnesota and Iowa were added to the National Milk Testing Strategy on Jan. 8. There are now 36 states involved in the ...

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Dairy cows crowd a fence waiting to be milked in Ridgeway, Minn., in April 2024. Samples from each of Minnesota's 1,625 ...

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

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More than 1,600 permitted cow farms will test their milk for H5N1, commonly called bird flu, starting in February.

As for dairy cows in Massachusetts, testing of milk has not resulted in any signs of H5N1 infection, said Randle. The virus hasn't existed among licensed dairy farms in Massachusetts since August.