US pledges money and other aid to help track and contain bird flu on dairy farms
by Jonel Aleccia and Mike Stobbe
May 10, 2024
2 minutes
U.S. health and agriculture officials pledged new spending and other efforts Friday to help track and contain an outbreak of bird flu in the nation's dairy cows that has spread to more than 40 herds in nine states.
The new funds include $101 million to continue work to prevent, test, track and treat said. And they include up to $28,000 each to help individual farms test cattle and bolster biosecurity efforts to halt the spread of the virus, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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