Concerns about possible transmission to people drinking unpasteurized milk are being talked about a lot. Apparently they fed mice unpasteurized milk, and they got the virus, but it seems like the temperature required to kill. The virus is higher than what they used to sterilize the milk. How is this safe?
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This new study shows that the time/temperature combinations most commonly used to pasteurize milk inactivate all or nearly all of the virus that is present, at least in the laboratory: [https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2405495](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2405495)
Also, this new study shows that no viable virus was present in 297 samples of pasteurized milk purchased at retail around the U.S. (although many of the samples had viral RNA present):
[https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.21.24307706v1](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.21.24307706v1)
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