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WAOW: UWSP Professor works to stop the spread of H5N1

August 4, 2024
UW-Stevens Point Professor Rob Michitsch works to prevent the spread through birds that pass it along to cattle.


By Wyatt Williams

According to Robert Michitsch, Professor of Soil and Waste Resources at UW-Stevens Point this strand of the H5N1 started in 2021 in Asia, and since has slowly made its way across the world through migrating birds making its appearance in the states back in spring of 2022.

Michitsch works to prevent the spread through birds that pass it along to cattle.

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