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Cooking burgers properly kills H5N1, USDA says

Department stresses that no H5N1 has been found in retail samples

05/16/24 2:48 PM By Steve Davies
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USDA says it’s confident that your hamburger is safe to eat, announcing results of tests showing that cooking patties to an internal temperature of 145 or 160 degrees – medium and well-done – killed the H5N1 virus.

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