text:  Smaller studies had mixed results, but a new, larger, more complex one at a federal research center in Athens, Georgia, indicated pasteurization does kill bird flu in milk. Chuck Sievertson, ABC News. Study has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Tropical storm Beryl, formed in the Atlantic Ocean, could become the year's first hurricane in the Atlantic. There is a hurricane watch in Barbados, and comedian and actor Martin Mull died at 80.