The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), issued a fresh set of recommendations urging the world populous to abstain from consuming raw milk, or dairy products that have not gone through the pasteurization phase.
Fears of a bird flu pandemic are continuously getting more press attention, with government agencies issuing new warnings that bird flu is now spreading from cow-to-cow, infecting farmers, and traces of bird flu allegedly contaminating a number of samples of pasteurized milk at the stores.
On Friday, April 26th, the WHO recommended people to not consume raw dairy products. They wrote:
Investigations are ongoing to understand the risk to humans from consuming milk contaminated with A(H5N1) virus. It is important for people to continue to follow safe food practices. Many dangerous zoonotic pathogens can be transmitted through unpasteurized milk, and FAO and WHO strongly advise the consumption of only pasteurized milk and to avoid consuming raw milk.
Even though the WHO recommends only consuming pasteurized dairy, the WHO, in that same report, conceded that there is still uncertainty that the process can actually prevent transmission and infection.
“High concentrations of virus have been detected in milk from infected dairy cattle at levels greater than that seen in respiratory samples. The implications of this in terms of transmission is currently being investigated, as is the role of pasteurization in inactivation of the virus. Virus transmission via contaminated fomites or mechanical means are other possible routes being investigated.
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