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When it comes to food safety risks with H5N1 influenza, we know it’s a problem with raw (unpasteurized) milk from cattle, so I often get asked if it’s a concern with milk from other animals, such as goat’s milk. It’s a good question. My typical response has been that we really don’t know. There haven’t

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It’s fair to say that raw pet foods have clearly been source of H5N1 influenza infections in cats, some of which have been fatal – even though sometimes it’s impossible to make a definitive link between the food and infection because of when and how the infection occurred, and what could or could not be

I think it’s fair to say H5N1 becoming seemingly endemic in US dairy cattle in the past year caught us off guard. The virus has spread widely within and between US dairy herds, has caused mild infections in a number of people in close contact with infected cows, has killed a lot of cats on