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One in Five Milk Samples Nationwide Shows Genetic Traces of Bird FluT

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Key Focus

  • But the survey result strongly hints that the outbreak may be widespread.. . Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said in an online update on Thursday ...
  • Jeanne Marrazzo, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at a news briefing Wednesday that some federally sponsored researchers had tested for live virus in retail milk but had not found any, a sign that pasteurization had killed the virus before the milk reached grocery shelves ...
  • But finding traces of the virus in such a high share of samples from around the country is the strongest signal yet that the bird flu outbreak in dairy cows is more extensive than the official tally of 33 infected herds across eight states ...
  • "And when you destroy the virus, it's going to release genetic material," said Samuel Alcaine, a microbiologist and food scientist at Cornell University. ...

    • No momentum supporting factor found

    Challenge supporting factors

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    • Work-in-progress supporting factors

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    • Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report44.93 0.00 55.08

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
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    (35) (virus,flu,inactivate)24.70
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    (37) (virus,country)23.49
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    (42) (flu,federal)19.28
    (43) (virus,flu,federal)16.87
    (44) (virus,outbreak,federal)16.27
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    (46) (virus,outbreak,country)12.65
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    (49) (flu,inactivate)7.83
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    (57) (outbreak,hints)1.81
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    Supporting narratives:

    Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Federal officials are still conducting the time-intensive tests required to determine whether any viable virus remains in the milk after pasteurization ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,pasteurization,time-intensive)
        • (virus,time-intensive)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (time-intensive,virus) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • But the survey result strongly hints that the outbreak may be widespread.. . Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said in an online update on Thursday ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,flu,federal)
        • (flu,outbreak)
        • (outbreak,retail)
        • (virus,outbreak,federal)
        • (flu,regulators)
        • (virus,flu,retail)
        • (virus,regulators)
        • (virus,flu,outbreak)
        • (virus,flu,regulators)
        • (virus,retail)
        • (flu,retail)
        • (virus,flu,hints)
        • (virus,outbreak,retail)
        • (virus,federal)
        • (flu,hints)
        • (virus,outbreak,hints)
        • (virus,outbreak,regulators)
        • (flu,federal)
        • Inferred entity relationships (16)
        • (flu,regulators) [inferred]
        • (flu,outbreak,virus) [inferred]
        • (hints,outbreak) [inferred]
        • (outbreak,retail) [inferred]
        • (outbreak,regulators) [inferred]
        • (flu,retail) [inferred]
        • (federal,flu,virus) [inferred]
        • (outbreak,retail,virus) [inferred]
        • (regulators,virus) [inferred]
        • (flu,hints,virus) [inferred]
        • (flu,regulators,virus) [inferred]
        • (flu,retail,virus) [inferred]
        • (flu,outbreak) [inferred]
        • (retail,virus) [inferred]
        • (federal,flu) [inferred]
        • (flu,hints) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • The findings also raise questions about how the virus has evaded detection and where else it might be silently spreading. Some scientists have criticized the federal testing strategy as too limited to reveal the true extent of viral spread. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,federal)
        • (virus,strategy)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Regulators said that there is no evidence that this milk poses a danger to consumers or that live virus is present in the milk on store shelves, an assessment public health experts have agreed with. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,experts)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Samples from parts of the country that are known to have dairy herds infected with the virus were more likely to test positive, the agency said. Regulators said that there is no evidence that this milk poses a danger to consumers or that live virus is present in the milk on store shelves, an assessment public health experts have agreed with ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,regulators)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • The findings also raise questions about how the virus has evaded detection and where else it might be silently spreading. Some scientists have criticized the federal testing strategy as too limited to reveal the true extent of viral spread ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,scientists)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Federal officials are still conducting the time-intensive tests required to determine whether any viable virus remains in the milk after pasteurization. Scientists have said that prospect is very unlikely. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,scientists)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • There is no evidence that the milk is unsafe to drink, scientists say. But the survey result strongly hints that the outbreak may be widespread.. . Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said in an online update on Thursday ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (outbreak,regulators)
        • (outbreak,scientists)
        • (outbreak,hints)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (outbreak,regulators,virus) [inferred]
        • (hints,outbreak,virus) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • A widespread outbreak in cows would pose a greater risk to farm workers, the dairy industry and public health more broadly. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (outbreak,health)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Jeanne Marrazzo, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at a news briefing Wednesday that some federally sponsored researchers had tested for live virus in retail milk but had not found any, a sign that pasteurization had killed the virus before the milk reached grocery shelves ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,pasteurization,retail)
        • (virus,pasteurization,director)
        • (virus,retail)
        • (virus,pasteurization,infectious_diseases)
        • (virus,pasteurization,national_institute)
        • (virus,pasteurization,marrazzo)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (retail,virus) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Experts believe that the process of pasteurization, in which milk is briefly heated, should inactivate this bird flu virus, which known as H5N1. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,pasteurization,inactivate)
        • (virus,pasteurization,h5n1)
        • (virus,pasteurization,flu)
        • (flu,h5n1)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (flu,h5n1,virus) [inferred]
        • (flu,pasteurization) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Jeanne Marrazzo, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at a news briefing Wednesday that some federally sponsored researchers had tested for live virus in retail milk but had not found any, a sign that pasteurization had killed the virus before the milk reached grocery shelves. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,pasteurization,grocery)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • But finding traces of the virus in such a high share of samples from around the country is the strongest signal yet that the bird flu outbreak in dairy cows is more extensive than the official tally of 33 infected herds across eight states ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,flu,outbreak)
        • (virus,outbreak,country)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (flu,outbreak) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said in an online update on Thursday. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (flu,food)
        • (virus,outbreak,drug_administration)
        • (outbreak,representative)
        • (virus,food)
        • (virus,flu,food)
        • (virus,outbreak,representative)
        • (flu,representative)
        • (virus,flu,representative)
        • (virus,outbreak,food)
        • Inferred entity relationships (7)
        • (food,virus) [inferred]
        • (outbreak,representative) [inferred]
        • (flu,representative,virus) [inferred]
        • (flu,food,virus) [inferred]
        • (flu,representative) [inferred]
        • (outbreak,representative,virus) [inferred]
        • (flu,food) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "And when you destroy the virus, it's going to release genetic material," said Samuel Alcaine, a microbiologist and food scientist at Cornell University. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,flu,food)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (food,virus) [inferred]
        • (flu,food) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Experts believe that the process of pasteurization, in which milk is briefly heated, should inactivate this bird flu virus, which known as H5N1.. . "And when you destroy the virus, it's going to release genetic material," said Samuel Alcaine, a microbiologist and food scientist at Cornell University. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,flu,samuel_alcaine)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Experts believe that the process of pasteurization, in which milk is briefly heated, should inactivate this bird flu virus, which known as H5N1.. . "And when you destroy the virus, it's going to release genetic material," said Samuel Alcaine, a microbiologist and food scientist at Cornell University ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,flu,inactivate)
        • (virus,flu,h5n1)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (flu,inactivate) [inferred]
        • (flu,h5n1) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Finding traces of the virus in 20 percent of commercial milk samples does not mean that 20 percent of the nation's dairy herds are infected, experts cautioned. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,experts)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . Samples from parts of the country that are known to have dairy herds infected with the virus were more likely to test positive, the agency said ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,country)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . But finding traces of the virus in such a high share of samples from around the country is the strongest signal yet that the bird flu outbreak in dairy cows is more extensive than the official tally of 33 infected herds across eight states ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (virus,country)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "You'd want to go not just to the places you knew there was activity and cows - you want to go to places where at least there's no reported" bird flu, Dr. Webby said.. . Experts believe that the process of pasteurization, in which milk is briefly heated, should inactivate this bird flu virus, which known as H5N1 ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (flu,experts)
        • (flu,pasteurization)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (flu,pasteurization,virus) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Webby said.. . Experts believe that the process of pasteurization, in which milk is briefly heated, should inactivate this bird flu virus, which known as H5N1. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (flu,inactivate)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (flu,inactivate,virus) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • As of Wednesday, just 23 people had been tested for the virus, while 44 people were being monitored after exposure to it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.. . A widespread outbreak in cows would pose a greater risk to farm workers, the dairy industry and public health more broadly. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (outbreak,risk)
        • (outbreak,workers)
        • (outbreak,industry)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • But it will be difficult to design effective control measures without knowing the scope of the outbreak, he said.. . The findings also raise questions about how the virus has evaded detection and where else it might be silently spreading. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (outbreak,questions)