{"id":6470,"date":"2024-04-30T15:10:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:10:53","slug":"theres-never-a-good-time-to-drink-raw-milk-but-nows-a-really-bad-time-as-bird-flu-infects-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/04\/30\/theres-never-a-good-time-to-drink-raw-milk-but-nows-a-really-bad-time-as-bird-flu-infects-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s never a good time to drink raw milk. But now\u2019s a really bad time as bird flu infects cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/29\/bird-flu-raw-milk-h5n1-risk-us-cattle\/\">Stat<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists who know about the types of pathogens \u2014 E. coli and Salmonella among them \u2014\u00a0that can be transmitted in raw milk generally think drinking unpasteurized milk is a bad idea. But right now, they believe, the danger associated with raw milk may have gone to a whole new level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf I were in charge, for the moment I would forbid the selling of raw milk,\u201d said Thijs Kuiken, a pathologist in the department of viroscience at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who has done research on H5N1 and the damage it inflicts for about two decades.<strong><br><\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/23\/h5n1-bird-flu-virus-particles-in-pasteurized-milk-fda\/\">H5N1 bird flu<\/a>\u00a0has been circulating in dairy cow herds in multiple parts of the country, likely for months now.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/25\/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-outbreak-likely-widespread\/\">Testing of milk from infected cows<\/a>\u00a0shows the virus is present in concentrations that have taken scientists by surprise. They worry that if a raw-milk consumer inadvertently drank milk from infected cows, the results could be bad \u2014 potentially really bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/29\/bird-flu-raw-milk-h5n1-risk-us-cattle\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stat Scientists who know about the types of pathogens \u2014 E. coli and Salmonella among them \u2014\u00a0that can be transmitted in raw milk generally think drinking unpasteurized milk is a bad idea. But right now, they believe, the danger associated with raw milk may have gone to a whole new level. \u201cIf I were in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6471,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}