how is it safe to drink pasteurized milk when avian flu virus is viable to 165 degrees Fahrenheit and milk is only pasteurized at 145 degrees?

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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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Almost all anti-bacterial temperatures are given as the temperature needed to kill *instantly*

If the pasteurization lasts any longer than one microsecond it can still kill the same thing at lower temperatures with more time

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