Every infectious disease expert advised against letting you or your pet consume raw milk, because bird flu virus has been detected in it. But feel free to keep drinking pasteurized milk. By heating milk to a specific temperature over time, pasteurized milk kills potential viruses like H5N1 and continues to be safe to drink.

With so much H5N1 circulating in the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic.