Bird flu in cattle: is cow's milk safe to drink?

> The agency used egg inoculation tests to find out – the "gold standard for infectivity". These tests involve introducing the virus to an egg and incubating it there, to see if the virus reproduces.

> The tests came back negative, indicating that there was no evidence of live H5N1 bird flu virus in the pasteurised milk. "This demonstrated conclusively that standard pasteurisation inactivates influence when raw milk is processed," the agency concluded.