In the nay-umm of CHEESES!
Posted on 05/27/2008 6:15:00 PM PDT by Haddit
Public health experts are cautioning people not to consume unpasteurized milk and cheese from Mexico after a new study found that those products have caused hundreds of individuals – mostly Latinos – to become sick over the years with a hardy form of tuberculosis. Their warning is part of county government's ongoing efforts to discourage consumers from buying queso fresco, or “fresh cheese,” and other unpasteurized dairy items from unlicensed street vendors and shops not certified by health regulators.
Between 1994 and 2005, the county's Tuberculosis Control Program reported 3,291 cases of active infection. About 8 percent of those patients – 264 people, half of them younger than 15 – were ill with a strain of bacteria called Mycobacterium bovis.
Most of the M. bovis patients were Latinos born in Mexico, according to the study conducted by researchers at UCSD Medical Center and county health officials.
Roughly the same pattern of infection has continued through last year, said Dr. Kathleen Moser, chief of the Tuberculosis Control Program.
People get M. bovis mainly by consuming milk or cheese from infected cows, though infection also can occur from airborne transmission. The bacteria are killed during pasteurization or by putting down herds of cattle that have one or more infected animals, Moser said.
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what would cheeses do?
In the nay-umm of CHEESES!
More propaganda to prevent to liberalization of FDA regulations on cheese pasteurization.
One of the great crimes of our time is that no unpasteurized cheeses are allowed in to the US from France.
Well, I did an image search for "cheese movers" and this caught my eye...
The dairy ass ociation is doing everything they can to keep the U.S. population from dying off by the millions from drinking unpasteurized milk and eating cheese products like they are in France, Spain and Portugal. It’s for our own good, you understand, and has nothing to do with the almighty (or once almighty) dollar.
I dunno. Maybe at shop Cheeses of Nazareth?
possibilities here.
Ever had a true, fresh Brie or Gorgonzola? Or Camembert?
If you cook it well, does it kill off the TB?
Cook the infected milk, not the infected Mexican laborers working in the U.S. chicken plant, of course.
Final TB count: 212 test positive at 1 chicken plant
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920441/posts
Geez. What did I have for dinner tonite? “Tastes like....”
God bless Baby Cheeses ...
I don't trust normal methods to kill TB type bacteria because they are tougher than ecoli and others.
Like I have said before...karma can be a bitch sometimes...;o)
I doubt it.
I am from the city, we don't have that sort of stuff there.
I feel that I should apologize for that post.
I work occasionally with TB patients, and we all take that business quite seriously.
I never should have posted that.
I apologize.
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