{"id":67634,"date":"2024-04-26T18:47:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T23:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67634"},"modified":"2024-04-26T18:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T23:47:41","slug":"1-in-5-samples-of-pasteurized-milk-had-bird-flu-virus-fragments-fda-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67634","title":{"rendered":"1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments, FDA says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments, FDA says<\/a><\/h3>\n
Milk sampled from areas with infected herds of dairy cows was more likely to be positive.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n
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Matt Rourke \/ AP file<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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The\u00a0Food and Drug Administration said Thursday<\/a>\u00a0that 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.<\/p>\n

The tested milk came from a nationally representative sample, with more of the positive results coming from milk in areas with infected herds of dairy cows, the FDA said. A spokesperson declined to say how many samples were tested.<\/p>\n

As of Thursday, bird flu had been detected in\u00a033 herds in eight states<\/a>: Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, Ohio and Texas.<\/p>\n

Richard Webby, an influenza virologist at St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, said the number of positive samples is consistent with numbers he’s reviewed from smaller sample sets.<\/p>\n

“But the number does seem high if the number of infected farms is indeed only 30-odd,\u201d Webby wrote in an email. “Clearly there are more infected animals out there than being reported.”<\/p>\n

The FDA first said Tuesday that it had found\u00a0viral fragments in commercially sold milk<\/a>, triggering the Agriculture Department to\u00a0issue a federal order<\/a>\u00a0mandating that all dairy cows be tested for bird flu before they are transported between states.<\/p>\n

Health officials maintain \u2014 and experts agree \u2014 that pasteurized milk is safe to drink. The FDA detected small pieces of the virus in milk, not live, infectious virus.<\/p>\n

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1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments, FDA says Milk sampled from areas with infected herds of dairy cows was more likely to be positive. Matt Rourke \/ AP file The\u00a0Food and Drug Administration said Thursday\u00a0that traces of the bird flu virus have been found in 1 in 5 samples […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34385,5234,17206,8749,14796,20399],"class_list":["post-67634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-berkeley-lovelace-jr","tag-bird-flu","tag-fda","tag-milk","tag-nbc-news","tag-us-food-and-drug-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67635,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67634\/revisions\/67635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}