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Avian Flu Updates, Beef Prices, EID Tags & Bucking Horses Ranch It Up Radio Show & Podcast
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We hear the latest on the avian flu and how testing may affect the beef business. We cover the latest news on the new regulations on electronic identification and have cow calf pair prices. Plus updates from the World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale along with markets and sale information. It’s all wrapped into this all new episode of the Ranch It Up Radio Show. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcasting app or on the Ranch It Up Radio Show YouTube Channel.
EPISODE 184 DETAILS
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE H5N1 JUMP FROM BIRDS INTO DAIRY COWS HAPPENED MONTHS AGO.
Academic scientists analyzing the USDA’s publicly accessible database of avian flu DNA, collected in and around dozens of dairy herds in nine states, shows that the H5N1 strain may have made a single jump from a bird into a cow.
The transmission could have occurred up to four months ago, according to preliminary findings published online.
Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who is leading a group of researchers studying the outbreak from outside federal agencies, tweeted that genetic data shared by USDA “strongly suggests there was single origin, at least for these sequences. Possibly in late 2023/early 2024.”
He said there were indications that birds have been reinfected by cattle carrying the viral strain.
The outbreak in dairy cattle was first identified in late March. The USDA this week said that ground beef from cattle infected with H5N1 is safe to consume, after retail samples were collected, tested and found to be all negative for H5N1.
USDA LAUNCHES BEEF TESTING BLITZ AMID H5N1 OUTBREAKS IN DAIRY CATTLE.
Three separate studies by government scientists are underway to monitor and test food supply safety in response to the widening outbreak of the H5N1 avian virus strain in dairy cattle, the USDA announced this week.
The regulatory safety efforts follow news last week of confirmed infection in a herd in Colorado, the ninth state to be affected since March.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is conducting polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests of ground beef from retailers in the nine states to detect if any viral particles are present. Meanwhile, the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) is taking muscle samples from culled dairy cows that have been condemned for systemic pathologies, which are also being tested for viral particles. Any positive tests in the two studies are to be followed up with checks for live virus by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
Meanwhile, ARS is carrying out a study using a virus “surrogate” in a study of ground beef to determine what temperature would be required for safe cooking if live virus were present.
“Results from these studies are forthcoming, and we will share information as it becomes available,” the USDA said.
The agency urged consumers to maintain proper handling of raw meat and cooking to a safe internal temperature.
“USDA is confident that the meat supply is safe. USDA has a rigorous meat inspection process, where USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) veterinarians are present at all federal livestock slaughter facilities. FSIS inspects each animal before slaughter, and all cattle carcasses must pass inspection after slaughter and be determined to be fit to enter the human food supply.”
GROUND BEEF PASSES USDA’S H5N1 SAFETY TESTS.
Ground beef from cattle infected with H5N1 is safe to consume, according to testing conducted by the USDA.
The agency announced the findings Wednesday after its Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) collected 30 ground beef samples from retail outlets in states where dairy cattle herds had tested positive for the influenza virus.
The samples underwent PCR testing at APHIS’ National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL). The results revealed that all samples tested negative for H5N1, reaffirming the safety of the meat supply.
The findings come days after Colombi
We hear the latest on the avian flu and how testing may affect the beef business. We cover the latest news on the new regulations on electronic identification and have cow calf pair prices. Plus updates from the World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale along with markets and sale information. It’s all wrapped into this all new episode of the Ranch It Up Radio Show. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcasting app or on the Ranch It Up Radio Show YouTube Channel.
EPISODE 184 DETAILS
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE H5N1 JUMP FROM BIRDS INTO DAIRY COWS HAPPENED MONTHS AGO.
Academic scientists analyzing the USDA’s publicly accessible database of avian flu DNA, collected in and around dozens of dairy herds in nine states, shows that the H5N1 strain may have made a single jump from a bird into a cow.
The transmission could have occurred up to four months ago, according to preliminary findings published online.
Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who is leading a group of researchers studying the outbreak from outside federal agencies, tweeted that genetic data shared by USDA “strongly suggests there was single origin, at least for these sequences. Possibly in late 2023/early 2024.”
He said there were indications that birds have been reinfected by cattle carrying the viral strain.
The outbreak in dairy cattle was first identified in late March. The USDA this week said that ground beef from cattle infected with H5N1 is safe to consume, after retail samples were collected, tested and found to be all negative for H5N1.
USDA LAUNCHES BEEF TESTING BLITZ AMID H5N1 OUTBREAKS IN DAIRY CATTLE.
Three separate studies by government scientists are underway to monitor and test food supply safety in response to the widening outbreak of the H5N1 avian virus strain in dairy cattle, the USDA announced this week.
The regulatory safety efforts follow news last week of confirmed infection in a herd in Colorado, the ninth state to be affected since March.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is conducting polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests of ground beef from retailers in the nine states to detect if any viral particles are present. Meanwhile, the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) is taking muscle samples from culled dairy cows that have been condemned for systemic pathologies, which are also being tested for viral particles. Any positive tests in the two studies are to be followed up with checks for live virus by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
Meanwhile, ARS is carrying out a study using a virus “surrogate” in a study of ground beef to determine what temperature would be required for safe cooking if live virus were present.
“Results from these studies are forthcoming, and we will share information as it becomes available,” the USDA said.
The agency urged consumers to maintain proper handling of raw meat and cooking to a safe internal temperature.
“USDA is confident that the meat supply is safe. USDA has a rigorous meat inspection process, where USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) veterinarians are present at all federal livestock slaughter facilities. FSIS inspects each animal before slaughter, and all cattle carcasses must pass inspection after slaughter and be determined to be fit to enter the human food supply.”
GROUND BEEF PASSES USDA’S H5N1 SAFETY TESTS.
Ground beef from cattle infected with H5N1 is safe to consume, according to testing conducted by the USDA.
The agency announced the findings Wednesday after its Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) collected 30 ground beef samples from retail outlets in states where dairy cattle herds had tested positive for the influenza virus.
The samples underwent PCR testing at APHIS’ National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL). The results revealed that all samples tested negative for H5N1, reaffirming the safety of the meat supply.
The findings come days after Colombi
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