Raw milk might be more dangerous than assumed.
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Unsurprisingly, extensive research has shown that unpasteurized, or raw, dairy products can spread harmful germs.
A mason jar being filled with raw milk at a local dairy in Carbondale, Colorado.© Cavan Images via Getty
People have already found H5N1 in commercially sold raw milk products.
The researchers seeded raw milk samples with an H1N1 strain of influenza A.
They also tested how pasteurization would affect the viability of the virus.
As withother research, they found that pasteurization fully removed the presence of any infectious influenza virus.
But it took up to five days for the raw milk samples to no longer be infectious.
The study did look at a different strain of influenza A than H5N1.
So H1N1 is likely a good surrogate for H5N1.
But there have been more serious cases of H5N1reportedas well.
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