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California's Dept of Public Health reports finding #H5N1 #birdflu virus in raw milk. The producer, Raw Farm LLC of Fresno County, has agreed to recall a batch of a whole milk product called "cream top."
Milk from infected cows contains staggering levels of virus. statnews.com/2024/04/29/bird-f

STAT · There’s never a good time to drink raw milk. But now's a really bad time as bird flu infects cowsPeople who drink raw milk from an H5N1-infected cow could get seriously sick, scientists say.

@HelenBranswell It’s quite the way to spell Darwin award. Would be funny if it wasn’t so deadly, and worse still, ominously promises to spread it beyond the wishful thinkers who’ve forgotten why special-purpose milk boiling pots and milk watchers existed for centuries.

@albertcardona @HelenBranswell Isn't RFK Jr. a raw milk fan? And hasn't he just been appointed to the FDA?

ProScience

@pieist

Not FDA but Secretary of Health, I think.

He'll make sure though to do everything in his power to ban any scientific and data driven approach the FDA might have (had).