Forbes April 27, 2024
You may have heard the recent revelations that the H5N1 bird flu virus has been spreading among dairy cows and that fragments of avian influenza have appeared in milk being sold at stores. That’s left one question flying about—should you worry about the bird flu? Well, the short answer is “yes” but not in a go-and-hoard-toilet-paper-again panic sort of way.
Just because this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu has jumped to cattle and a dairy worker in Texas got infected with the virus doesn’t mean that you should necessarily have a cow, so to speak. The dairy worker survived the infection. Plus, fragments of the virus in milk is not the same as having complete versions of the virus...
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