Study: The avian and human influenza A virus receptors sialic acid (SA)-α2,3 and SA-α2,6 are widely expressed in the bovine mammary gland. Image Credit: Arie van der Wulp / Shutterstock This ...

Iowa State University researchers have identified receptors for the avian flu on dairy cattle mammary glands. (Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture) As avian influenza is being detected ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that the strain of bird flu currently circulating among dairy cattle appears to be only transmissible via mammary glands, or udders, rather than ...

They successfully demonstrated that calves with H5N1 in their mouths could transmit the virus to the mammary glands of the lactating cows they nursed from. The mystery was solved.

Iowa State University researchers say a sugar molecule they’ve found in the mammary glands of cattle is the so-called receptor that transmits highly pathogenic avian influenza. Professor Todd ...

Finding the virus in the cattle mammary glands could explain why this virus is spreading throughout dairy herds. “It seems to like the mammary gland with respect to there’s large viral loads ...

Because no one was expecting H5N1 in dairy cattle, it took until March 25 to diagnose it, he said. “Subsequently within a herd, because it’s in the mammary gland, there is some spread that ...

Chinese scientists say they have uncovered how the H5N1 virus initially invades the mammary glands of dairy cattle, potentially triggering last year's outbreak of bird flu across more than 1,000 ...

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Todd Bell, a professor of veterinary pathology and co-author of the study, said the idea to look at mammary glands as a potential entry point for the virus came after it was identified in raw milk.