Move over, wastewater. Store-bought milk could be another way to track the bird flu outbreak in cows
STAT - Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine
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May 21 2024
Scientists from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center have managed to generate a full genetic sequence of H5N1 virus from milk, a development they suggest means commercially purchased milk products could be used to monitor the progress of the bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle and to check for important changes in the virus over time.
