22/07/2025
"Given that illness in cows and dairy workers are mild (Mostafa et al., 2024) and no epidemiologic evidence supports transmission to humans for the 2024 dairy outbreak via aerosol, ingestion, fomites, or person-to-person (CDC, 2024b), reporting on the US dairy herd outbreaks in 2024 appear sensationalized, inciting fear, worry, dread, and highly amplified concerns about another human pandemic."
🧐🥛🧐🥛RAW MILK AND BIRD FLU: A DEEP LOOK AT THE LACK OF EVIDENCE FOR TRANSMISSION VIA RAW MILK. Check out this new important paper looking at the "lack of scientific evidence" that bird flu can be transmitted through drinking raw milk. "Serious errors in extrapolation are apparent in the treatment of evidence for H5N1 in the media and some journal papers that unintentionally or intentionally amplify risk."
The paper goes on to say that, when the "extensive body of experimental and observational evidence" is considered, it is clear that transmission of H5N1 to humans is "rare and sporadic" and happens "by direct contact of dairy workers with infected animals, not by oral transmission."
YOU CAN READ THE FULL PAPER HERE👇👇👇: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/risa.70077
Thanks to RAWMI Advisory Board member Peg Coleman for continuing to analyze ALL of the evidence so lawmakers and consumers can make informed decisions.
