{"id":323868,"date":"2026-06-05T09:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323868\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:46:27","slug":"avian-flu-confirmed-in-texas-idaho-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323868\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian flu confirmed in Texas, Idaho cows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nClara Bastain\/iStock<\/p>\n

For the first time this year, highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in Texas dairy cattle, according to a press release this week from the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) and according to the US Department of Agriculture\u2019s (USDA\u2019s) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dairy is currently under quarantine as part of existing response protocols, and state and federal officials are working closely to mitigate disease spread,\u201d TAHC said.<\/a> \u201cAccording to USDA APHIS, there is no concern that this circumstance poses a risk to consumer health or the safety of the commercial milk supply.\u201d<\/p>\n

TAHC said milk from affected animals is being diverted from the commercial milk tank or destroyed so that it does not enter the human food supply.<\/p>\n

H5N1 detected at commercial duck meat facility\u00a0<\/p>\n

In related news,<\/a> APHIS has tracked avian flu in Idaho cattle throughout May. In total, 15 dairies in Idaho (14) and Texas (one) have confirmed cases in the past 30 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In other avian flu news, Indiana is the only state in the past two weeks reporting H5N1 detections on commercial country farms, according to APHIS<\/a>. The most recent positive samples were from Elkhart County, in an outbreak involving 3,100 birds at a commercial duck meat facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the past 30 days, avian flu has been confirmed in 24 flocks (16 commercial, 8 backyard), affecting 280,000 birds.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Bastain\/iStock For the first time this year, highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in Texas dairy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-323868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}