Bird flu has been detected in 'very high concentrations' in raw milk, the World Health Organization announced Friday. However, the pasteurized milk supply remains safe.
Analysis shows that fragments of H5N1 survive pasteurisation, but experts say supplies remains safe
US health authorities said Tuesday they had discovered fragments of bird flu virus in the nation's pasteurized cow milk supply during the course of a large study, but the samples likely posed no health risk to humans.
Early results from sampling study suggest bird flu could be widespread in America’s commercial supplies
The disease has been detected in dozens of herds in eight states
US Steps Up Monitoring As FDA Warns Bird Flu Found In Pasteurized Milk From Grocery Stores Dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for the bird flu virus, U.S. agriculture officials said Wednesday as they try to track and control the growing outbreak. AP reports that the federal order was announced a day after health officials said they had detected inactivated remnants of the virus, known as Type A H5N1, in samples taken from milk during processing and after retail sale....
The agency stressed that the material is inactivated and that the findings do not represent a risk to consumers.
Testing conducted by the FDA on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
The FDA insists the nation's milk supply is safe after fragments of the bird flu virus were found in some milk samples. ABC News' Lionel Moise reports.
Traces of the bird flu virus were found in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as the agency advises that the milk is safe to drink until further testing is performed.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), avian influenza or bird flu is a disease "caused by infection with avian influenza Type A viruses." These viruses can also naturally spread among wild aquatic birds worldwide and can infect...
The H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been detected in very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the WHO said Friday, though how long the virus can survive in milk is unknown.
Experts say that commercial milk remains safe to consume. But what are health officials doing to protect the milk supply, and what about raw milk?