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Raw milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus. Raw milk fans called warnings "fear mongering," despite 52% fatality rate in humans.
Raw milk fans called warnings "fear mongering," despite 52% fatality rate in humans.
The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. Payne, a researcher and dairy outreach coordinator at the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security at UC Davis, added that "Deliberately trying to infect yourself with a known pathogen flies in the face of all medical knowledge and common sense." With the virus apparently having a field day in cows' udders, researchers have found raw milk to be brimming with high levels of H5N1 viral particles—and those particles appear readily capable of spilling over to other mammals.
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