Bird flu has spread to dairy cows in nine states, but not Georgia. Officials monitoring
Avian influenza, which wild birds have been transmitting to poultry during the last two years, has now spread to dairy cows, State Epidemiologist Dr. Cherie Drenzek reported this week. Cows in 40 dairy herds in nine states - but not Georgia - started coming down with the H5N1 strain of bird flu in March,