Bird flu virus now found in milk, is of “great concern” to WHO

A recent statement from the World Health Organization (WHO) is sure to ruffle a few feathers.

The international health group expressed “great concern” over the rising number of bird flu cases in humans. The organization also announced Friday that the virus has been found in raw milk.

Dr. Jeremy Farrar, chief scientist at the WHO, noted that the avian flu, also called H5N1, had an “extremely high” mortality rate among those who had been infected around the world.

“The great concern, of course, is that … [the] virus now evolves and develops the ability to infect humans. And then critically, the ability to go from human-to-human transmission,” Farrar warned.

On Friday, the WHO further warned that the virus has been found in raw milk. Officials said that drinking pasteurized milk — which is the kind sold throughout the US in grocery stores — is still safe. Dairy farmers in the US are also required to destroy milk from infected cows, so it should not make its way into the food supply chain in the first place.

Dr. Wenqing Zhang, who leads the WHO’s global flu program, said that the virus had been identified in a “very high virus concentration in raw milk” from infected cows, according to the Daily Mail. Researchers are still trying to determine how long the virus might be able to survive in milk.

In general, drinking raw milk is always a bad idea, as raw milk can carry other contaminants, like salmonella, listeria, and E. coli — all of which can make you sick.

I’ve not seen any dead birds unless hit by a car. My 9 hens are healthy, I keep DE-Earth food grade in their bedding, and Hydro Hen probiotics in their water. The DE-Earth is also good for garden pests that destroy your green beans. I’m going to try out a Shade Cloth for my less heat-tolerant plants, Tomatoes are the least heat-tolerant, of zone 7.

Milk is for cooking, I’ve not drunk it since it went full Holstein. To bitter. Jersey/Gurnsey are smaller goblues and are sweeter milks.

Just another way to eliminate a food source.

Why don’t they do something about the chemicals and high heavy metals in food? Nothing has been done since the Lead in paint, 34 years ago.

FDA Head Calls on Congress to Pass Mandatory Testing for Lead in Food

Gerber, Beech-Nut to Face MDL Over Claims of Tainted Baby Food

Reuters reported:

More than 20 lawsuits brought by families who say their children were harmed by baby food products made by Gerber, Beech-Nut, Campbell Soup Co, and several other companies that were tainted with heavy metals will be centralized in San Francisco federal court, a federal judicial panel said Thursday. Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury all are poisons. They delay brain development, make your baby sick, an accumulation turns to cancers, autism, and death.

Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury all are poisons. They delay brain development, make your baby sick, an accumulation turns to cancers, autism, and death. Wana Bana Cinnamon Babyfood, the reported dates of illness onset for the impacted children range from Oct. 17 through Nov. 1. So far, illnesses have been reported in Arkansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, and North Carolina. Why there still aren’t limits on lead in baby food https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/still-arent-limits-lead-baby-food-rcna129013. Congress is too busy giving money to Ukraine, Iran, and Illegals to regulate poisons in babies and children’s food, or yours. Efforts to set guidelines to limit lead exposure in children go as far back as the 1980s, when the government began work to reduce children’s exposure to lead from paint and gasoline as well as from food packaging, like lead-soldered cans, said Dr. Leonardo Trasande, director of environmental pediatrics at NYU Langone Health.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bf-fda-congress-pass-mandatory-testing-lead-food/

Kraft Heinz Sued Over Lunchables, Parents Claim High Levels Of Metal https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/15/lunchables-sued-kraft-heinz-metal-class-action-lawsuit/#:~:text=Kraft%20Heinz%20is%20facing%20a,their%20pre%2Dpackaged%20meal%20kits.

I assume someone has done the research to verify that H5N1 is killed through pasteurization.

One problem with raw milk is that it can contain pathogenic organisms before the cow starts showing symptoms. And once a month testing of cows for disease doesn’t cut it—that’s only getting a snapshot of the cows’ health on the day of testing. They have the whole rest of the month to get sick and for contaminated milk to enter the food supply.

Fun fact: people who drink raw milk from a cow that becomes rabid must undergo rabies treatment.

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