Raw cheese made with milk from dairy cattle infected with bird flu can harbor infectious virus for months and may be a risk to public health, according to a new study from researchers at Cornell ...

Avian influenza virus from the ongoing outbreak in dairy cattle appears to be keeping its bird-infecting features rather than ...

In other developments, a Chinese research team that studied experimental infections involving different inoculation routes ...

A ndrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus he’d seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and ...

Dairies say the USDA relief money helped them sustain operations as bird flu decimated milk production, but critics say the ...

H5N1 bird flu virus particles found in pasteurized milk but FDA says commercial milk supply appears safe By Helen Branswell, Nicholas Florko, Megan Molteni, and Rachel Cohrs Zhang Reprints ...

Raw milk fans are going as far as intentionally seeking out unpasteurized dairy products contaminated with H5N1 to consume for perceived "benefits." ...

Mark McAfee, founder of Fresno’s Raw Farm and the Raw Milk Institute, said his phone has been ringing off the hook with “customers asking for H5N1 milk because they want immunity from it ...

New England Journal of Medicine Source Reference: Kaiser F, et al "Inactivation of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in raw milk at 63°C and 72°C" N Engl J Med 2024; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2405488.

H5N1 bird flu virus is infectious in raw milk cheese for months, posing risk to public health, study shows By Brenda Goodman, CNN Mar 14, 2025 Updated Mar 14, 2025 0 ...

For the study, the researchers made mini cheeses with milk they spiked with H5N1 virus. They made these cheeses at three pH levels: 6.6, 5.8 and the most acidic formula, 5.0.