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May 16 2024 from the MedPage Today:
" No H5N1 has been found in the meat supply, but cooking meat well would kill it if it appeared
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has good news for meat eaters: cooking ground beef at the currently recommended temperatures would likely kill any avian flu virus if it should ever get into the meat supply.
"In the latest test, USDA researchers inoculated a very high level of an HPAI virus surrogate into 300-gram (10.6-oz.) ground beef patties, and then cooked the patties at different temperatures. "Researchers found that there was no virus present in the burgers cooked to 145° [F.] internal temperature -- or roughly 'medium' -- or 160° [F.], which equates with a 'well done' burger, which is the recommended cooking temperature," said Deeble. Asked during a question-and-answer session about whether the virus was found in samples cooked at lower temperatures, he said that 'cooking to -- I believe it was 120° [F.] -- showed that there was virus still in the cooked hamburger patty, but at much, much reduced levels.'"
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