Erika Edwards is a health and medical news writer and reporter for NBC News and 'TODAY.'
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that dairy products including cottage cheese and sour cream are safe to eat amid the outbreak of the bird flu virus in dairy cows. The agency has been conducting tests on 297 pasteurized retail dairy products after findings last week showed that fragments of the virus had gotten into the commercial milk supply. The tests showed that the products didn’t contain live virus that could make people sick, the FDA said Wednesday.
Sifford said that it appears the virus spreads between cows through affected raw milk, which contains high levels of the virus. There is no evidence yet that this strain of the bird flu, called H5N1, spreads easily from person to person. But the concern is that the longer the virus spends in mammals, it could mutate into a form that does. For now, Sifford said, that doesn’t seem to be happening.
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