Deadly Disease Caused by Raw Milk Has Already Put 19 US States on High Alert

Officials in the United States have warned over and over again that raw, unpasteurised milk can carry dangerous and potentially deadly bacteria. Today, however, it seems like that information is falling on deaf ears. Disease outbreaks caused by raw milk are on the rise, and a new warning from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has now set 19 states on high alert.At the end of 2018, a New York resident was diagnosed with an infectious disease called brucellosis after drinking raw milk from Miller's Biodiversity farm in Pennsylvania.Now the CDC has confirmed that this farm's raw milk did, in fact, contain a rare strain of the Brucella bacterium, RB51, which is resistant to first-line antibiotics and can be difficult to diagnose given its flu-like symptoms.Tracing the sale of this product, investigators have found it in over a third of US states, including California, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, putting an unknown number of people at risk.It's the third time that raw milk has caused brucellosis since 2017