Urgent H5N1 Bird Flu Alert: California Dairy Farms at Risk, Human Transmission Concerns Grow in 2026
Published: January 7, 2026
Duration: 3:01
Bird Flu SOS: Urgent H5N1 News & Safety
[Podcast Script Begins - Read Verbatim, Approx. 500 words, 3 minutes]
[Urgent, steady music fades in. Host speaks with calm authority.]
Host: Attention, listeners: This is Bird Flu SOS. Breaking now: As 2026 dawns, H5N1 bird flu is out of control, ravaging wildlife across continents, infecting over 1,000 US dairy farms, and hitting California hardest with four active dairy herd quarantines as of December 31, 2025, per the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Science Focus reports the virus has spilled into mammals unprecedentedly, with genetic material in US milk supplies...
[Podcast Script Begins - Read Verbatim, Approx. 500 words, 3 minutes]
[Urgent, steady music fades in. Host speaks with calm authority.]
Host: Attention, listeners: This is Bird Flu SOS. Breaking now: As 2026 dawns, H5N1 bird flu is out of control, ravaging wildlife across continents, infecting over 1,000 US dairy farms, and hitting California hardest with four active dairy herd quarantines as of December 31, 2025, per the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Science Focus reports the virus has spilled into mammals unprecedentedly, with genetic material in US milk supplies...