More US cows being tested, tracked in bid to stop bird flu
Voice of America
FILE - Cows are pictured at a dairy in California, Nov. 23, 2016. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said April 23, 2024, that samples of pasteurized milk had tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy cows.
U.S. health and agriculture officials are ramping up testing and tracking of bird flu in dairy cows in an urgent effort to understand — and stop — the growing outbreak.
FILE - In this photo illustration the social media application logo for TikTok is displayed on the screen of an iPhone in front of a US and Chinese flag background in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2023. FILE - Giovanna Gonzalez of Chicago demonstrates as Congress weighs a crackdown on TikTok, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 12, 2024.
People gather on a bridge where a woman's body was retrieved after floodwater washed away houses and people in Kamuchiri village, Nakuru county, Kenya, on April 30, 2024. At least 48 people were killed in the incident. A man sits on a tree trunk in flooded Kamuchiri village, Kenya, on April 30, 2024. Kenya has been overwhelmed by flooding that killed 66 people on Monday alone and in recent days has blocked a national highway, swamped the main airport and swept a bus off a bridge.