As bird flu infections rise in dairy cattle and chickens, human cases are ticking up too, leaving many people to wonder whether they might be at risk from this recently arrived virus.

Health authorities have stressed that pasteurized milk is safe to drink. But officials are worried about the risks of raw milk — especially in California, where two raw milk producers have recalled their products after bird flu was detected in retail samples.

France has declared itself to be free of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the absence of new outbreaks for more than a month, though the country remains on high alert for the virus that has been spreading rapidly in Europe,