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Additional testing is required to determine whether intact pathogen is still present and if it remains infectious, which would help inform a determination of whether there is any risk of illness associated with consuming the product,
I think I will pause on the milk until they figure this out.
Readers of Dr Bright's post have also expressed conern over drinking milk — including Karen Piper, from Seattle, who said I've spent 27 years studying H5N1 viruses
The fact that you can go into a supermarket and 30 to 40 percent of those samples test positive, that suggest there's more of the virus around than is currently being recognized.
Dr Richard Webby, an influenza virologist at St Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, said If you're not drinking milk, I'm not drinking milk, ... I told my husband last week, no milk.
A second said ... and a third added We don't feel that import restrictions related to the avian flu outbreak have any scientific basis, ... It's certainly a big deal for exporters who are doing business in Colombia and for their customers."
The warning has been sounded, there is extra vigilance - and these viruses can mutate so rapidly that you have to keep an eye on them,
Has anyone ever been exposed to non-pasteurised milk contaminated by H5N1, and developed an infection by the normal means of consumption, the mouth or digestive tract? It's never been demonstrated,
Is the fact that virus traces have been found in cow milk worrying? No, although the fact that another animal is susceptible to contamination by this virus is not good news,
said Bruno Lina, a virologist at the Lyon hospital in southeast France Pasteurisation destroys the virus even if it doesn't eradicate every trace of its presence,
In the United States, a new H5N1 virus has intermingled with local viruses, and has the ability to multiply extremely rapidly in a cow's udder,
said Jean-Claude Manuguerra, director of the environment and infection risks department at the Pasteur Institute in Paris What we know is that the virus can cause in humans an infection in two specific places: an eye infection - which is mild - or in the pulmonary alveoli, the deepest parts of the lung,
There's a risk of random cases, in animals or humans. But we're not seeing any major mutation of the virus that would lead to a greater pandemic risk than three or four months ago,
It's taking them too long to be able to reassure the public about the safety of milk,
My concern is we keep making the same mistakes over and over again,
The Biden administration, particularly the White House, has been incredibly quiet on this bird flu situation. Why? To me, it looks like they very much don't want to scare the public and spook the economy in an election year,
It's spreading rapidly in these animals, and every time it spreads, it has a chance to mutate,
We're seeing the same tension between business interests and public health interests,
An animal can't tell you, 'Hey, I feel a little under the weather today.' So they're literally waiting until an animal is collapsing or showing fatigue or showing severe symptoms,
The public needs good consistent communication from the White House, from the USDA, helping reassure them what the process is to keep them safe,