{"id":6806,"date":"2024-05-24T14:24:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=6806"},"modified":"2024-05-24T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:35:15","slug":"milk-containing-bird-flu-virus-can-sicken-mice-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=6806","title":{"rendered":"Milk Containing Bird-Flu Virus Can Sicken Mice, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The results bolster evidence that virus-laden raw milk may be unsafe for humans.<\/p>\n

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Unpasteurized milk contaminated with H5N1, the bird-flu virus that has turned up in dairy herds in nine states, has been found to rapidly make mice sick, affecting multiple organs, according to a study published on Friday.<\/p>\n

The findings are not entirely surprising: At least a half-dozen cats have died<\/a> after consuming raw milk containing the virus. But the new data add to evidence that virus-laden raw milk may be unsafe for other mammals, including humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t drink raw milk \u2014 that\u2019s the message,\u201d said Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led the study.<\/p>\n

Most commercial milk in the United States is pasteurized. The Food and Drug Administration has found traces of the virus in 20 percent<\/a> of dairy products sampled from grocery shelves nationwide. Officials have not found signs of infectious virus in those samples and have said that pasteurized milk is safe to consume.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But the findings have global implications, said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, director of the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, who was not involved in the work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this becomes a more widespread outbreak in cows, there are other places where there isn\u2019t central pasteurization,\u201d she cautioned, \u201cand there are a lot more rural communities that drink milk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The results bolster evidence that virus-laden raw milk may be unsafe for humans.Unpasteurized milk contaminated with H5N1, the bird-flu virus that has turned up in dairy herds in nine states, has been found to rapidly make mice sick, affecting multiple organs, according to a study published on Friday.The findings are not entirely surprising: At least a half-dozen cats have died after consuming raw milk containing the virus. But the new data add to evidence that virus-laden raw milk may be unsafe for other mammals, including humans.\u201cDon\u2019t drink raw milk \u2014 that\u2019s the message,\u201d said Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led the study.Most commercial milk in the United States is pasteurized. The Food and Drug Administration has found traces of the virus in 20 percent of dairy products sampled from grocery shelves nationwide. Officials have not found signs of infectious virus in those samples and have said that pasteurized milk is safe to consume.But the findings have global implications, said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, director of the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, who was not involved in the work.\u201cIf this becomes a more widespread outbreak in cows, there are other places where there isn\u2019t central pasteurization,\u201d she cautioned, \u201cand there are a lot more rural communities that drink milk.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6808,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6809,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions\/6809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}