FDA says it found bird flu in milk
The FDA said yesterday that it found fragments of the bird flu virus in samples of pasteurized milk, less than a month after a bird flu outbreak was found in dairy cows.

What to know : The FDA said pasteurized milk is still safe to drink. “Pasteurization is likely to inactivate the virus” but not remove viral particles, the agency said. The FDA is waiting for more accurate test results to be certain. [NBC News]

Milk safety : Federal officials have said the commercial milk supply is safe and that only a small number of samples tested positive for the virus known as H5N1. [New York Times]

What’s being done : Bird flu has been detected in farms across eight states. The FDA said milk from infected cows is being “diverted or destroyed.” However, tracking the virus’s spread relies on voluntary reporting. [CNN]