this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
160 points (96.0% liked)

News

23397 readers
3755 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

A strain of bird flu known as H5N1 or highly pathogenic avian influenza has made a worrying leap to cattle herds across the US over the past month. This development has sparked "enormous concern" among health experts, including the World Health Organization's (WHO) chief scientist, who warned of the virus' "extremely high" mortality rate in humans.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] tal 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

“Almost all dairy nowadays is pasteurised and that will kill the virus,” Rossman explains. “So for the vast majority of people drinking milk, there’s absolutely no reason to be concerned.”

“The only potential concern at all would be people that are drinking unpasteurised milk. But of course, if you're drinking unpasteurized milk, you also have a risk of a lot of other infections that could occur.”

The states affected so far are Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and South Dakota.

In the US, the FDA has banned sale of unpasteurized milk, but that only affects stuff that crosses state lines; they don't have authority to ban within a state. Some states allow sale of unpasteurized milk -- stuff gets produced and sold in the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_raw_milk_debate

Idaho and New Mexico, both affected states, permit sale of unpasteurized milk directly in stores.

And this doesn't just affect some person who is absolutely determined to disregard health advisories and drink raw milk in those states. If the virus jumps to humans there and begins human-to-human transmission off one of them, the whole world can potentially be impacted.

I mean, with COVID-19, we spent a lot of time early-on dinging China for having wet markets that helped create risk for disease jumping animal-human barriers. This is also not good.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And you know the same mouth-breathers who rejected all factually accurate information about COVID-19 and vaccines will just refer to this as the next "plandemic" and pretend viruses aren't real. Some will go out of their way to visit farms and drink milk straight from the cow's udder just to "prove" there's nothing to worry about.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I can already hear the cries of "99.7% survival rate!" and "Give me hydroxychloroquine or (and) give me death!"

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know if it’s widespread or not, but at least in Virginia they wouldn’t stop you from drinking raw milk from “your own cow” so you could buy “shares” of a cow allowing you to have some percentage of the cows raw milk output.

[–] tal 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, they talk about it in the WP article I linked to -- that's a "herdshare". That's also an issue, but at least the barrier is somewhat higher than just cruising down to the grocery store. You gotta be more of a True Believer and go out of your way to take part in one of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herdshare