The ‘milk supply is safe’: Biden administration scrambles to reassure Americans as bird flu spreads

POLITICO— Officials are racing to conduct more testing to better understand the spread of the virus and its potential risk to humans.

STAT—H5N1 bird flu virus particles found in pasteurized milk but FDA says commercial milk supply appears safe. Testing conducted by the FDA on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday.

FOX News—Amid bird flu spread, experts reveal if it's safe to drink milk: 'Indirect concern'. Traces of bird flu have been detected in pasteurized milk — leaving many people wondering if it’s safe to drink. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a notice on Thursday stating that one in five retail samples of commercial milk tested positive for fragments of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), more commonly known as bird flu or avian flu. The share of milk with viral remnants was higher in areas where herds of cattle had been infected. BIRD FLU PANDEMIC IN FUTURE? EU...

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...