In light of the United States Food and Drug Administration's announcement that bird flu has been discovered in cow's milk, board-certified infectious disease physician Carl Abraham, M.D., assistant professor at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM),

The spread of bird flu has been worldwide, but concerns were raised in March when highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, was detected in dairy cows’ milk across multiple states.

Published Tuesday in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, the report details the early stages of the investigation into the spread of bird flu among the country's dairy farms. Cats at the Texas farm had been fed raw milk from cows that turned out to be infected with avian influenza,

On April 30, a report published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal took a deep dive into the highly pathogenic avian influenza. HPAI H5N1 first started spreading among cows earlier this year.