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Bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk, though officials maintain supply is safe (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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2 weeks to flatten the curve guys

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[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 120 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S.

That’s a key word to leave out of the headline god damn. That would mean pasteurization did its job, whereas the headline implies to me “pasteurization does not kill this virus,” which would be a lot more concerning

[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 64 points 6 months ago (4 children)

According to an FDA study relying on 2016 and 2019 data, 4.4 percent of Americans report consuming raw milk in the past year, although the number has almost certainly grown since then.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/10/the-alt-right-rebrand-of-raw-milk-00145625

yea

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 47 points 6 months ago

Oh cool, great, the fucking idiots are going to kill millions more people by being actual fucking plague rats again

[–] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago (7 children)

That's a way fucking bigger number than I thought what the hell. You gotta like have a guy for that.

It's akin to telling me 1 in 20 of us have a moonshine guy. Which this board may not be the best sample size for as im sure it skews higher than that

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know both a raw milk lady and a moonshine guy 🤔

not interested in either product, but kinda feeling special now to have this direct access to lethal homemade consumables

[–] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Moonshine guy is unironically safer

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not gonna catch TB from moonshine, that’s for sure.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Just blindness if they leave the methanol in.

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[–] mars@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used to live in a rural area with a lot of small farms and there was this loophole where you'd pay a company for partial ownership of a cow, and then they'd deliver raw milk to you. This was their way around laws prohibiting the sale of raw milk, since if you own a cow you're allowed to drink the milk raw if you want. So yeah unfortunately there's easy ways to get it if you live near farmers and shit.

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't recommend having a guy for that, that's not real raw milk.

Milk comes from cows, not guys.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

gulag

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

NOOOOO

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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Raw milk is a real rural woo woo thing. Rural culture has its own brand of essential oils weirdos that do shit like this.

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In my city one of the “natural” grocery stores sells it. Shouldn’t be fucking legal.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

“natural” grocery stores

So same thing but double the price?

[–] Galli@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

More like 1 in 20 households having a moonshine guy which is probably more like 1 in 100 directly interacting with the moonshine guy.

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[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

Not me sitting here thinking dairy companies are also skimping on the pasteurizing process 👀

Real "The Jungle" hours

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 47 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

WE FED THE COWS THE BIRD DOODOO

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Brb buying stock in Zoom

[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If I knew how to gamble on the markets rathe than just watch my 401k dwindle, I imagine puts on milk futures might be worth a punt

[–] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

Just buy random penny stocks, works 100% of the time 1% of the time

[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

this shit is a ticking time bomb. very cool that the lesson my country seems to have taken from covid is that lockdown is bad, and vaccines are scary

[–] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

They’ve developed language and rhetoric against the COVID vaccines, just wait for the next one sadness

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Cow's milk? Well, we're safe then, because it's not like any human would or should drink something meant for baby cows smuglord

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Everything is fine... I think I've heard that one before yea

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What you expect the USA to learn from one million dead from covid? lol, lmao

[–] someone@hexbear.net 50 points 6 months ago

The rulers of America did learn. They learned that Americans are willing to accept mass casualties from a pandemic so long as they could still go out for dinner and movies.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago

They don't care about dead commoners. Capitalism kills millions of poors all the time, what's a few more?

[–] abc@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago

covid-cool

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

I had a Roz-when-RGB-died-laugh moment

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

im-vegan

[–] Landsharkgun@midwest.social 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Simply do not consume animal products.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

im-vegan

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Ah, I was hoping to go to some open mics and stuff. One of my jam sessions requires a Covid test and that's understandable.

[+] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago (6 children)

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[–] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nothing good

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[–] nothx@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

Deadly amounts of cope.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Well, it wouldn't be good to put it simply. Bird flu is an Influenza A virus. It could be a blip on the radar as flu season comes around or, as Wikipedia puts it

A bird-adapted strain of H5N1, called HPAI A(H5N1) for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of type A of subtype H5N1, is the highly pathogenic causative agent of H5N1 flu, commonly known as avian influenza ("bird flu"). It is enzootic (maintained in the population) in many bird populations, especially in Southeast Asia.

You could end up with a highly pathogenic common cold going around. As I like to think about it, if you're adapted to a different animal, you're not calibrated to survive with humans as a host. If you accidentally manage to survive via mutation, then you could do some real damage instead of the mild illness that lets you prolong how long you're there so you can shed more virus into the environment.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

We put Boeing out of business

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

A higher mortality rate than COVID and everyone's immune systems are already a bit fucked due to the deliberate mishandling of COVID.

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

seems like a pretty unlikely vector for a respiratory virus, isn't it?

[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Someone already posted the full quote. They found fragments of the virus in the milk, which obvs isn't going infect anyone.

But that still means ⬆️ risk of animal to human infection and the even higher risk of human to human infection.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But that still means ⬆️ risk of animal to human infection and the even higher risk of human to human infection

i think that remains to be seen, 'fragments' might just be what a successful protective measure looks like. do viruses leave 'fragments' after other disinfectant treatments?

[–] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

Yes, when something causes the virus to burst/lyse, the bits are still gonna be there. The issue is the fragments are even in milk in the first place.