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Chiara Eisner 🎤
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Investigative Reporter @NPR. Reach out via ceisner@npr.org, eisnerchiara@gmail.com or 803 814 4464. Reporting 🗣 en español & português
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May 15 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Last week I went to Texas — ground 0 for the bird flu spreading across the U.S. — to buy raw milk and test it for the flu.

Why?

Feds have advised against drinking raw milk amidst this outbreak but the milk is still for sale. What’s the risk to consumers? We could find out… I picked four farms around San Antonio and Houston. Paid for milk from each. Stuck it in a cooler. Drove it up to 1 of 4 labs authorized by the USDA to test for bird flu. Left the samples in a freezer:


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