Vermont dairy farms are now declared free of bird flu by the USDA. All Vermont Grade A milk was tested, with no infections found. This makes Vermont the first New England state to achieve this status.

As of May 9, the test did not reveal any dairy cattle infected with bird flu, which led to the declaration by the USDA that Vermont is unaffected by bird flu. Vermont is the first state in New ...

Since a USDA-mandated testing program began over the winter, no samples from the state’s 411 Vermont dairy farms have tested positive. ... Vermont’s dairy farms are officially bird flu-free.

A backyard flock of birds in Vermont tested positive for bird flu last week, state officials announced Thursday.. The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets said the flock of 24 birds ...

A backyard flock of birds in Vermont tested positive for bird flu last week, state officials announced Thursday.. The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets said the flock of 24 birds ...

Since the spring, the avian flu has spread to hundreds of dairy herds in at least 16 states. At least 60 people — mostly farmworkers — have caught the virus, according to the NYTimes .

The H5N1 bird flu was found in a backyard flock in Vermont, the state's agricultural agency said Thursday. The small flock of 24 non-commercial birds in Franklin County was quarantined and put down.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has documented 65 human cases of H5 bird flu in the U.S. as of December 24, nearly all of which it linked to dairy herds and poultry farms in ...

A small backyard flock of birds in Vermont tested positive for bird flu, a different strain than the one impacting dairy cows across the country, state health said last week.. Highly pathogenic ...

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont agriculture officials are ramping up plans to test milk following a nationwide mandate from the USDA over concerns about the spread of bird flu.