Is Dairy Safe Now That Traces of Bird Flu Are in Milk?
A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza that’s been decimating wild and captive flocks of birds since 2020 has spread among US dairy cows — and has infected one person in Texas exposed to the sick animals. Traces of the virus have been found in about 20% of commercial milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said April 25. Health authorities say that pasteurization — which kills viruses though some inactivated particles may remain — is expe