U.S. health and agriculture officials are ramping up testing and tracking of bird flu in dairy cows in an urgent effort to understand — and stop — the growing outbreak. So far, the risk to humans ...

WASHINGTON -- Inspectors failed to perform a required mad cow disease test on a suspicious animal in Texas, the U.S. Agriculture Department said today, just as the Bush administration is pushing to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reliance on individual dairy farmers to help track the spread of avian flu is leaving the federal government without the data ...

Since a new form of bird flu arrived in 2022, federal officials have sought to reassure Americans that the threat to the public remained low. By Noah Weiland Benjamin Mueller and Emily Anthes The ...

Cows can recognize human faces and match voices to the correct person, showing they distinguish between individual people.