USDA requires HPAI testing for lactating dairy cattle before movement, reporting for all livestock
AVMA News
APRIL 26, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is starting to require negative tests for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, more specifically avian influenza type A H5N1) in dairy cattle before interstate travel. Further, HPAI will become a reportable disease in dairy cattle. Both changes are effective April 29. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also confirmed that it has found remnants of HPAI virus in commercially available milk.
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