Bird Flu 2024 Milk Cartons. Highly pathogenic avian influenza (hpai) is a disease of poultry that is highly contagious and often deadly in poultry, caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza a (5) and a (7) viruses; โ how bird flu virus fragments get into milk sold in stores, and what the spread of h5n1 in cows means for the dairy industry and milk drinkers.
One in five commercial milk samples tested in a nationwide survey contained particles of the h5n1 virus, the fda said late on. โ the us food and drug administration (fda) said on tuesday that samples of pasteurised milk had tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy.