Cows and goats – previously thought not susceptible – have joined the list of infected animals, and a US farmworker has caught the disease after exposure to cattle.
  • partial_accumenEnglish
    8•4 months ago

    Unless you get your milk from very strange places, don’t panic:

    “Commercial milk remains safe and available because pasteurization, a high heat treatment, kills bacteria and viruses.”

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  • @kintherOPMEnglish
    3•4 months ago

    “The H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been detected in very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the WHO said on Friday, though how long the virus can survive in milk is unknown.”