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Drinking raw milk may pose a risk of bird flu transmission to humans. Will pasteurization eliminate this risk and make milk ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants of the dangerous pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus.