The World Health Organization (WHO) stated Friday that the general public well being threat posed by the current influenza, A(H5N1, is “low.”
For these with publicity to contaminated birds, animals, or contaminated environments, nonetheless, the danger of an infection is “considered low-to-moderate,” it stated in a press release.
It pressured that threat evaluation may change because the UN company learns extra.
“The virus has been detected in milk and its potential role in transmission is being investigated,” it stated, advising folks to devour pasteurized, not uncooked milk.
The US Food and Drug Administration just lately stated one in 5 business milk samples examined in a nationwide survey contained particles of the H5N1 virus.
The avian flu was first recognized in Texas herds in March, with subsequent findings indicating the presence of the virus in a couple of dozen extra herds throughout eight US states.
The newest information on milk samples confirmed the outbreak is extra widespread within the US than beforehand thought.
Thousands of birds died within the North Sea in 2022 when Bird flu broke out. Researchers worry that the identical may occur this yr.
Source: www.nationalturk.com
