The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S. While the agency maintains that the milk is safe to drink, it notes that it is still waiting on the results of studies to confirm this.
The findings come less than a month after an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu was found, for the first time, in herds of dairy cows in several states. It has since been detected in herds in eight states.
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The FDA is specifically testing whether pasteurization inactivates bird flu in cow milk. The findings will be available in the “next few days to weeks,” it said.
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Still, the virus remains a cause of concern among health officials, given its particularly high mortality rate of around 50%. Bird flu doesn’t spread easily from person to person, but there’s worry that it could mutate as it spreads among cows to a version that spreads more easily among people. So far, there’s no evidence indicating that has happened, according to the CDC.
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There is a very big difference between the headline of "Bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk" and the real message "fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S.". Turning potential health hazards and threats into harmless particles is the very job of pasteurizing. That is excactly why we pasteurize milk.
Heck, the virus particles could even evoke immune reactions, thus vaccinating us in a natural way. Just by drinking milk.
Do you want the anti-vax crowd to boycott milk?
And cheese. And all dairy products. And eggs. Etc.
At that point just a tad more and they're going vegan because the cows are probably vaccinated, then they cut down their (bp propaganda) carbon footprint in the confusion 😂
A lot of them already do. Antivax often shares venn diagram with a lot of dietary stuff. Not drinking milk is a big one, along with no gmos, etc.
Yes, would be hilarious.
Lol. Milk = vaccine is a new one! I admire your imagination!
Not too far fetched. Many vaccines are made with surface proteins from viruses that can be recognized by the immune system. But my guess is going through the pasteurization most proteins would be denatured and not in the functional form.
https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/making-vaccines/how-are-vaccines-made