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Milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu, U.S. officials said Monday.

Officials with the Texas Animal Health Commission confirmed the flu virus is the Type A H5N1 strain, known for decades to cause outbreaks in birds and to occasionally infect people. The virus is affecting older dairy cows in those states and in New Mexico, causing decreased lactation and low appetite.

It comes a week after officials in Minnesota announced that goats on a farm where there had been an outbreak of bird flu among poultry were diagnosed with the virus. It’s believed to be the first time bird flu — also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza — was found in U.S. livestock. 

The commercial milk supply is safe and risk to people is low, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dairies are required to only allow milk from healthy animals to enter the food supply, and milk from the sick animals is being diverted or destroyed. Pasteurization also kills viruses and other bacteria, and the process is required for milk sold through interstate commerce, the agency said.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Americans trying to remind us that China isnt the only country with a poorly regulated and unhygienic factory farming industry capable of producing a pandemic-causing pathogen

[–] TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Remind the rest of the world. Americans won't understand the similarities. America must have the best farms in the world. Everyone is jealous of their thicc meat

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

gifs you can hear

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

And pus! Pasteurization kills pus! Well it mixes it really good so you don't notice it in the white miky liquid.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago

Mostly there. Pasteurization kills the nasties in pus, but it’s homogenization that makes us not realize the pus is in there!

[–] valek879@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Wait... You what now?

[–] NekoRogue@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That extra "s" is making this comment NSFW in a way that I don't think you intended.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's not a word I use often. But pussy, that rolls off the tongue easily.

[–] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Thats it, im against pasteurization now!

[–] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

Work from home 2.0!

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

As long as it doesnt transfer to humans guess we will be fine.

And thats gonna do us aussies beef market wonders.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good thing viruses don't mutate, eh?

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

And it’s not like H5N1 infects humans or anything.

   

(Just don’t check the CDC’s web page over it.)