The outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza among U.S. dairy cows, first reported on March 25, has now spread to at least 33 herds in eight states.
Federal authorities say the milk supply is safe, but this latest development raises troubling questions about how widespread the outbreak really is.
Rick Bright, an expert on the H5N1 virus who served on President Biden’s coronavirus advisory board, told me this is the crucial moment.
That’s when I told him what I’d heard from Sid Miller, the Texas commissioner for agriculture.
The commissioner speculated that back then, as much as 40 percent of the herds in the Texas panhandle may have been infected.
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