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'Consuming raw cow’s milk that contains H5N1 avian influenza virus poses an infection risk, but a laboratory process that simulates high-temperature pasteurization reduces the virus in infected milk by more than 99.99%. That’s according to a team led by University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists, who reported their findings May 24 in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine.'

https://news.wisc.edu/raw-milk-containing-h5n1-can-infect-mice-while-lab-based-heat-treatments-greatly-reduce-the-virus/