Bird Flu Viral Fragments Found In Pasteurized Milk: US Officials

Barron's— 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.

Ars Technica—Fragments of bird flu virus genome found in pasteurized milk, FDA says. The test cannot tell if the virus is live. The FDA still assess milk supply as safe.

NBC News—Bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk, though officials maintain supply is safe. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S. While the agency maintains that the milk is safe to drink, it notes that it is still waiting on the results of studies to confirm this. The findings come less than a month after an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu was found, for the first time, in herds of dairy cows in several states. It has since been detected in herds in eight states. The...

KFDI—FDA assures milk supply is safe after fragments of bird flu virus are found in pasteurized dairy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has discovered fragments of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — more commonly referred to as bird flu — in some samples of dairy milk products. An update from