Pasteurized milk includes remnants of H5N1 bird flu, U.S. officials say
Pasteurized milk includes remnants of H5N1 bird flu, U.S. officials say
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that samples of pasteurized milk have tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy cows.
The agency stressed that the material is inactivated and that the findings "do not represent actual virus that may be a risk to consumers." Officials added that they're continuing to study the issue.
"To date, we have seen nothing that would change our assessment that the commercial milk supply is safe," the FDA said in a statement on Tuesday.
The announcement comes nearly a month after an avian influenza virus that has sickened millions of wild and commercial birds in recent years was detected in dairy cows in at least eight states. The Agriculture Department (USDA) says 33 herds have been affected to date.
So basically “pasteurisation was found to have worked”.
What I heard is "the cow farmers who said they weren't milking sick cows are lying." And "our workers are still touching these diseased cows to hook them up to the milking machines, which has already led to one human contracting the virus by rubbing his eyes."
Also, unfortunately, raw milk is still sold. It's a very small margin, but it happens.
Yes. I was wondering about the raw milk issue - if there is an upsurge of H5N1 in cows, possibly without farmers sometimes realising, other times fully knowing but ignoring it for whatever reason, then there will be a surge of H5N1 infections among those drinking unpasteurised milk.
Fucken science, bro.
Antivax crowd no longer drinking milk I guess
Maybe these morons will do something good for once and drop milk prices for the rest of us
I didn't get an answer when this was posted this morning: If you drink it, are you vaccinated against it? Serious question.
Not likely. Your stomach acid probably destroys what's left of the virus before it enters the bloodstream, meaning there's nothing for your immune system to train against. There's a reason we don't drink vaccines.
And the partial remnants of the virus are inactive, meaning they can't affect people in any way, shape or form.
The agency stressed that the material is inactivated and that the findings "do not represent actual virus that may be a risk to consumers." Officials added that they're continuing to study the issue.
And the partial remnants of the virus are inactive, meaning they can’t affect people in any way, shape or form.
The warning, unspoken, was to the idiots drinking Raw Milk. I give it less than 90 days before one of them dies from H5N1.
I give it less than 90 days before one of the stupid ass "Raw Milk" people dies of H5N1.
Ooof. I feel like the FDA needs to step up its game in the US. Many things we shouldn't be eating