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In Minnesota, which has detected cases of bird flu within its dairy cattle, the state is requiring all cows to have a negative bird flu test before coming to the state fair.
—Benjamin Thorp, NPR, 4 Sep. 2024
But testing for bird flu among farmworkers remains rare, which is why Gray’s research stands out as the first to look for signs of prior, undiagnosed infections in people who had been exposed to sick dairy cattle — and who had become ill and recovered.
—Amy Maxmen, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
Four of the cases were farmworkers infected while working with dairy cattle; the other nine were people who were infected while culling chickens when the virus from cows spilled over into two large poultry operations in Colorado.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 July 2024
Workers on dairy cattle and poultry farms, at commercial egg-laying operations, slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants, as well as people who have close or prolonged, unprotected exposures to infected animals or their environments are at greater risk of H5N1 infection.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1895, in the meaning defined above
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“Dairy cattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dairy%20cattle. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
dairy cattle
noun
: cattle raised especially to produce milk
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