After nearly 30 days without new public postings, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has added a batch of H5N1 detections in both dairy cattle and commercial poultry, ending the quietest stretch of the year in the federal record.
Three dairy herds were confirmed in the past 30 days, with two in Texas and one in Utah, according to CIDRAP, which tracks the agency's dashboards. That brings the year-to-date total to 85 cattle herds with confirmed infections in livestock. For comparison, the agency logged 171 herd outbreaks last year and 917 in 2024, the year the virus was first found in cows.
