Texas, Wisconsin and Idaho are not particiting in testing for bird flu in cattle

Three of America’s top milk-producing states aren’t a part of federal surveillance testing for bird flu even as a new variant is turning up in dairy cattle, in what some public health experts say is a troubling gap in the national effort to identify and detect the spread of the virus. ...

Yet Texas, Wisconsin and Idaho, three of the country’s top five milk-producing states, aren’t participating in the voluntary federal testing program. And though efforts are underway to get them on board, it’s not clear when they will join or how long it will take. 

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