Elsewhere, a USDAreportreleased on Wednesday assessing the meat supply should reassure the public.
All of these tests have returned negative.
Experts did expect that pasteurization would render H5N1 inert, as it has for many other infectious germs.
Milk being sold at a retail store.Photo: Amnixia (Shutterstock)
So the results arent too surprising.
And we certainly arent out of the woods yet.
Right now, these viruses cant transmit well between people.
And the right assortment of mutations could turn a bird flu virus into a deadly and fast-spreading pandemic germ.
While pasteurized milk might be safe to drink, the same isnt necessarily true for raw milk.
Raw milk isregularly a vectorfor many infectious diseases.
And some cases of H5N1 in cats arealready suspectedto have been triggered by the cats drinking contaminated raw milk.
News from the future, delivered to your present.
like don’t drink raw milk.
