CNN Health and ProPublica investigate an uncontained avian influenza outbreak on a mink farm and warn of mammalian adaptation risks.
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H5N1 Bird Flu Attacks Cow Udders Instead of Lungs Because Receptors Are Concentrated in Mammary Tissue
A breakthrough study explains why dairy cows are particularly vulnerable to H5N1 infection — the virus’s preferred receptors cluster in udder tissue not respiratory tissue.