First it was Northern California's poultry industry, then it spread to other states, now the avian bird flu has been detected in a large portion of the U.S.'s milk supply.
Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said in an online update on Thursday.
Samples from parts of the country that are known to have dairy herds infected with the virus were more likely to test positive, the agency said. Regulators said that there is no evidence that this milk poses a danger to consumers or that live virus is present in the milk on store shelves, an assessment public health experts have agreed with.
The FDA says, according to The New York Times, the bird flu has been found in 33 herds in eight states: Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, Ohio and Texas. But only small elements of the virus were found and not the live virus in which they are not infectious, the FDA said.
However, The Times reports the virus is fatal in about half of the people who contract it and the concern the agency has is that, while the virus isn't infectious now, it can eventually mutate and even spread faster down the line. So far, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says pasteurized milk is considered safe to drink meaning that raw milk probably is not.
Could this be the new pandemic? If this avian bird flu becomes more of a problem or the media and medical so-called experts try to spin or politicize the spread and with prior promotions done to urge people to eat insects and abjure eating meat using combating climate change as the reason, a campaign is still afoot on the part of elites to try to control or undermine the overall food supply. Don't let them.
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