Federal dollars to increase bird flu testing for dairy cows, farm workers – The Washington Post

The federal government Friday unveiled a major package of financial incentives to dairy farm owners up to $28,000 per farm over the next four months to encourage broader testing of cattle and expanded security measures to control a growing outbreak of the bird flu virus in cows.

The $98 million in incentives from the Department of Agriculture, available only to farms with infected herds, is being offered as federal officials grapple with critical questions over how the virus has been spreading among dairy herds since the H5N1 bird flu was first detected in dairy cows in late March. Federal officials are trying to determine the risks for human exposure and how long livestock shed the virus in their milk once they have recovered from an infection.

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Federal dollars to increase bird flu testing for dairy cows, farm workers - The Washington Post