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After repeatedly saying for weeks and months that drinking conventional, store-bought, pasteurized milk is safe to drink and consumers would not have to fear ingesting bird flu, now some reports are claiming that Highly-Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is spreading in both raw and pasteurized milk.
The WinePress has been covering the many reports of this purported bird flu spread since 2021. You can see the full coverage here. The most recent mainstream headlines warned of several human cases of H5N1 infections around the world, and biotech companies in talks with the U.S. government to produce new mRNA vaccines.
Most recently, a study published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine – “Cow’s Milk Containing Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus — Heat Inactivation and Infectivity in Mice” – received mainstream press attention. Long story short, the study claims that bird flu can spread in milk.
The study authors wrote:
Under these conditions, heat treatment for 15 or 20 seconds reduced virus titers by more than 4.5 log units but did not completely inactivate the virus. We emphasize that the conditions used in our laboratory study are not identical to the large-scale industrial treatment of raw milk.
[…] HPAI A(H5N1) virus may therefore remain infectious for several weeks in raw milk kept at 4°C.Detection of virus in the mammary glands of two mice was consistent with the high virus load in the milk of lactating cows, even though these mice were not lactating. Collectively, our data indicate that HPAI A(H5N1) virus in untreated milk can infect susceptible animals that consume it.
In summary, HPAI H5–positive milk poses a risk when consumed untreated, but heat inactivation under the laboratory conditions used here reduces HPAI H5 virus titers by more than 4.5 log units. However, bench-top experiments do not recapitulate commercial pasteurization processes…
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