FDA found infectious H5N1 at relatively high titers in bulk raw milk from 4 states with known infected herds.
Pasteurization inactivates H5N1. Do NOT drink raw milk!!!
www.fda.gov/media/179708...
buying raw milk is in the best of circumstances buying a ticket to the Darwin Awards. please don't also inflict a new influenza outbreak on the rest of us as well.
Am I right in understanding that more human infections increase the chance of mutations that can lead to human to human transmission? That these raw-milk people may be getting infected and recovering but that each illness increases the chance of a pandemic?
Yes. The more evolutionary experience a virus has with a given host, the more selection pressure to adapt to grow and transmit efficiently in that host.
