Got Milk? Then You Need the Full Story on Bird Flu
- Curious Holstein dairy cows feed on silage in a freestall barn at a large California dairy /in the San Joaquin Valley. (Ed Young via Getty Images)
The CDC says our milk supply is safe. Donald G. McNeil Jr. asks: How can they be so sure?
The American dairy industry is fighting a major epidemic of H5N1 avian flu right now. Cattle herds in at least eight states are infected, and 20 percent of a national sampling of milk showed fragments of the virus. Meanwhile, the public has been told to stay calm, our milk supply is safe, and nothing serious is amiss.
But we can’t be sure this is true.
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