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A cluster of cats on a Texas dairy farm died after drinking raw milk from dairy cows affected with bird flu, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The disease, which has had a recurring presence on U.S. poultry farms for several years, has resulted in the culling of nearly 60 million birds from commercial and backyard flocks.

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed another person working on a dairy cattle farm, this time in Colorado, has been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus.

Symptoms for mild cases included headaches and fevers. The disease, which can be fatal, rarely spreads from human to human, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The disease can be catastrophic for farmers, because infected cattle may be culled to stop the spread of infection. Due to a bTB incident in England between October 2021 and September 2022, 22,934 ...

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Tests on the 8-year-old cow from a farm in South Holland province established that the dead animal had a naturally occurring form of the disease called atypical BSE, the government said later ...