The Food and Drug Administration said it had found inactive fragments of the virus in commercially available pasteurized milk, but said consumers who drink it are not at risk of infection.
U.S. health and agriculture officials are ramping up testing and tracking of bird flu in dairy cows in an urgent effort to understand and stop the growing outbreak
When dangerous novel pathogens emerge among humans, there is only a small window of time in which to stop them before they spiral out of control. Neither our animal farming practices nor our public health tools seem up to the task.
The FDA said Tuesday that fragments of the virus that causes bird flu had been found in samples of pasteurized milk, but said milk is still safe to drink.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is asking states to prepare for more bird flu cases by gearing up to test at-risk people for the virus, but insists that the risk to the general public remains low,
Food and Drug Administration officials reported this week that lab tests have found genetic material from strains of H5N1 avian influenza in samples of store-bought pasteurized milk. Officials say these samples do not appear to contain live virus and that the commercial milk supply should still be safe.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stresses the current public health risk is low — the virus isn’t known to spread among people or through the food supply, is rarely caught from exposure to infected animals,
Traces of bird flu have been detected in dairy cows in eight states. 'Women's Health' asked infectious disease experts if it's safe to drink milk right now.
The discovery of fragments of avian flu virus in about 20% of milk samples from stores in initial testing across the U.S. suggests that the H5N1 virus may be more widespread in U.S. dairy cattle than previously realized.
Spillovers from animals to humans are common, yet pandemics are rare because they require a chain of unlucky events to happen one after the other. But pandemics are a numbers game, and a widespread animal outbreak like this raises the risks.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that traces of the bird flu virus have been found in 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk, providing a more detailed picture of how much of the milk supply has been affected.
So far, Pennsylvania has seen no cases of avian flu in cattle, and the FDA says that it does not have reason to believe the national milk supply is unsafe.
Bird flu has had a busy couple of years. Since 2022, it’s ravaged the US poultry industry, as more than 90 million farmed birds — mostly egg-laying hens and turkeys — have either died from the virus or have been brutally killed in an attempt to stop the spread.
Bird flu virus has been detected in raw milk, federal agencies reported this week, but added that the nation's commercial milk supply remains safe. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.
Particles of bird flu were detected in some samples of pasteurized milk, though the virus in that form is not a threat to humans, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday. As a bird flu epidemic spreads through avian and cattle livestock across the country,
With bird flu outbreaks continuing to be reported in U.S. cows and poultry, consumers should be sure to cook chicken, eggs and beef fully before consuming them, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
After fragments of the virus that causes bird flu were found in samples of commercially available pasteurized milk, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains pasteurized milk sold in grocery stores is safe to drink.
The FDA says samples of milk taken from grocery stores have tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy cows. But the agency says it's confident the milk in stores is safe.
The discovery of traces of the bird flu virus in pasteurised cow milk in the United States sparked questions over whether the disease could spread to humans, but experts say there is little risk from food contamination.
Genetic evidence of H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in grocery store milk, according to the FDA. In this video, STAT explains what is known about the safety of milk on shelves.
The World Health Organization (WHO) called Wednesday for a strengthening of global detection networks for the H5N1 bird flu virus which infected a large number of animal species.
The agency said that while they are continuing to study the issue, consumers should not be concerned about the safety of the milk supply because the flu remnants are “inactivated” and the findings “do not represent actual virus that may be a risk to consumers.
Avian influenza, aka bird flu, has spread to dairy cows in multiple states and one person in Texas. What to know about transmission, symptoms and food risks.
As federal agencies and state partners continue investigating outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) -- more commonly referred to as bird flu -- the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it discovered fragments of the virus in some samples of milk.
Inactive fragments of the bird flu virus that has sickened dairy herds in eight states have been detected in pasteurized milk, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
There have been numerous developments this week concerning avian flu that have raised concerns among experts. Outbreaks of bird flu were reported at poultry facilities in both Michigan and Texas,