{"id":9468,"date":"2025-05-14T12:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9468"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:39:05","slug":"usda-declares-vermont-dairy-farms-are-unaffected-by-the-bird-flu-epidemic-how-they-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/14\/usda-declares-vermont-dairy-farms-are-unaffected-by-the-bird-flu-epidemic-how-they-know\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA declares Vermont dairy farms are &#8216;unaffected&#8217; by the bird flu epidemic: How they know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/2025\/05\/14\/u-s-department-agriculture-declares-vermont-dairy-farms-unaffected-by-bird-flu-grade-a-milk-testing\/83603145007\/\">Burlington Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vermont dairy farmers have achieved what the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.vermont.gov\/\">Agency of Agriculture<\/a>&nbsp;called a &#8220;critical benchmark&#8221; from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Agriculture<\/a>&nbsp;\u2212 a declaration by USDA that Vermont is unaffected by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/bird-flu\/index.html\">bird flu<\/a>, according to a news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This winter, the Agency of Agriculture began a new milk sampling program mandated by the USDA to identify avian influenza-infected dairy cattle, commonly known as bird flu. The Agency had another goal, which was to test all Vermont Grade A milk directly from each supplying dairy farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/2025\/05\/14\/u-s-department-agriculture-declares-vermont-dairy-farms-unaffected-by-bird-flu-grade-a-milk-testing\/83603145007\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burlington Press Vermont dairy farmers have achieved what the&nbsp;Agency of Agriculture&nbsp;called a &#8220;critical benchmark&#8221; from the&nbsp;U.S. Department of Agriculture&nbsp;\u2212 a declaration by USDA that Vermont is unaffected by&nbsp;bird flu, according to a news release. This winter, the Agency of Agriculture began a new milk sampling program mandated by the USDA to identify avian influenza-infected dairy [&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-9468","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\/9468","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=9468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9469,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}