{"id":11062,"date":"2025-12-17T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:05:29","slug":"wisconsin-confirms-first-avian-flu-case-in-dairy-cattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/17\/wisconsin-confirms-first-avian-flu-case-in-dairy-cattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin confirms first avian flu case in dairy cattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agdaily.com\/livestock\/wisconsin-confirms-first-case-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-dairy-cattle\/\">Ag Daily<\/a> This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service reported the first confirmed case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a dairy cattle herd in Wisconsin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detections of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.agdaily.com\/livestock\/h5n1-outbreaks-hit-u-s-dairy-farm-with-737500-in-losses\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"avian influenza, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">avian influenza<\/a>&nbsp;in dairy cattle have been limited this year, in contrast to 2024, when an outbreak that began in March spread nationwide and led to infected herds being reported in 18 states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis detection does not pose a risk to consumer health or affect the safety of the commercial milk supply. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is confident that pasteurization is effective at inactivating HPAI virus, and that the commercial, pasteurized milk supply is safe,\u201d APHIS said in a news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samples from the herd were tested initially by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/datcp.wi.gov\/Pages\/News_Media\/HPAIDetectedWIDairyHerdDodgeCo.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic<\/a>&nbsp;Laboratory and the positive findings confirmed by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories. DATCP said it is responding in coordination with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/news\/agency-announcements\/usda-confirms-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-dairy-herd-wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration<\/a>, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other state and federal partners.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"ZchVQMPBffZ Wy HDR\">ZchVQMPBffZ Wy HDR<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ag Daily This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service reported the first confirmed case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a dairy cattle herd in Wisconsin.&nbsp; Detections of&nbsp;avian influenza&nbsp;in dairy cattle have been limited this year, in contrast to 2024, when an outbreak that began in March spread nationwide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11063,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions\/11063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}