{"id":6775,"date":"2024-06-05T12:56:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:45:48","slug":"raw-milk-containing-bird-flu-virus-can-sicken-mice-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/06\/05\/raw-milk-containing-bird-flu-virus-can-sicken-mice-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw Milk Containing Bird-Flu Virus Can Sicken Mice, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/24\/health\/raw-milk-bird-flu-virus-mice.html\">NYT<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\">The results bolster evidence that virus-laden raw milk may be unsafe for humans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc2405495\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"according to a study published on Friday, opens in a new window\">according to a study published on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings are not entirely surprising: At least a half-dozen cats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/30\/7\/24-0508_article\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"have died, opens in a new window\">have died<\/a>&nbsp;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\n\n\n<p>\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\n\n\n<p>Most commercial milk in the United States is pasteurized. The Food and Drug Administration has found traces of the virus&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/25\/health\/bird-flu-milk-fda.html\">in 20 percent<\/a>&nbsp;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><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT 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,&nbsp;according to a study published on Friday. The findings are not entirely surprising: [&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-6775","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\/6775","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=6775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11807,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions\/11807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}