"If a cow is infected, it sheds a lot of virus into the milk." ...
When highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu spilled into U.S. dairy herds in 2024, veterinarians saw something strange: cows were ...
Research conducted on Irish dairy farms showed fore-stripping increased clinical mastitis detection by up to 146%. The ...
A few words about mastitis and cows. Full disclosure: I am not a veterinarian nor do I have any formal training or expertise in animal health beyond what I have learned through practical experience ...
Mastitis remains the most prevalent and costly disease affecting dairy herds worldwide, characterised by inflammation of the mammary gland most often linked to bacterial infection. Its impacts extend ...
Mastitis is a multifactorial inflammatory disease. The increase in antibiotic resistance of bacteria that cause mastitis means that cattle breeders would prefer to reduce the use of antibiotics.
A block-calving dairy unit has cut its herd mastitis rate by 75%, helped by a technique that analyses cow DNA using a single milk sample taken from the ...