Herd health monitoring technology is helping researchers better understand how H5N1 Influenza A affects dairy cattle.

Michigan State University Extension’s Phil Durst tells Brownfield, “Those monitoring tools, whether it’s an ear tag, whether it’s a neck tag, or whether it’s a rumen bolus, certainly have been able to show us before we can see a problem.”

He says a 500-cow milking cow farm that first detected the disease in early May has become a case study for the state.

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