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FRESNO CA JUNE 29, 2024 - Cows are being milked at the Raw Farm, raw milk dairy. (Tomas Ovalle / For The Times)

Despite warnings from bird flu experts, it’s business as usual in California dairy country

New research and discussions with dairy farmers in the Central Valley suggests H5N1 bird flu is more widespread among people than the reported numbers indicate.
FRESNO CA JUNE 29, 2024 - Mark McAfee greets stands with his dairy cows at sunrise at his raw milk dairy. (Tomas Ovalle / For The Times)

Bird flu virus detected in California raw milk

Jan. 27, 2022: Aerial views of farm workers in a field near the All-American Canal in Calexico.

Cluster of farmworkers diagnosed with rare animal-borne disease in Ventura County

LOS ANGELES-CA-AUGUST 31, 2024: Dogs available for adoption look out of their kennels at Chesterfield Square South Los Angeles Animal Services Center on August 31, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Mayor Bass said she’d save L.A.’s shelter animals. More dogs and cats are dying

Shoplifter injured by police dog gets nearly $1-million settlement from Northern California city

‘We can’t give up on her’: Couple turns to bloodhounds, animal psychics to find lost dog

Alameda County child believed to be latest case of bird flu; source unknown

6 monkeys are still on the loose from a South Carolina compound after dozens escaped

‘All we could do was watch’: Beekeeper mourns millions of bees killed in Mountain fire

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FILE - Cows stand in the milking parlor of a dairy farm in New Vienna, Iowa, on Monday, July 24, 2023. The bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows is prompting development of new, next-generation mRNA vaccines — akin to COVID-19 shots — that are being tested in both animals and people. In June 2024, the U.S. Agriculture Department is to begin testing a vaccine developed by University of Pennsylvania researchers by giving it to calves. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

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H5N1 bird flu infects five more humans in California, and one in Oregon

Health officials have announced six more H5N1 bird flu infections in humans: five in California and the first known case in Oregon.

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