The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli infections potentially linked to Sierra Nevada Graziers raw milk cheese.

Thirteen people in nine states have been sickened in the E. coli outbreak, including eight who were hospitalized and three who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a potentially serious complication of E. coli infection that presents with bloody diarrhea and fever, according to the CDC. No deaths have been reported, the FDA said.

States with E. coli cases linked to raw milk cheese include California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee and Utah.

  • aizakku@sh.itjust.works
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    You mean a bacteria found in the feces of nearly half the population of dairy cattle contaminated REAL milk? Like, I mean the udders are several inches off the ground and cows notoriously never lay down, so where could this come from?

    Must be big Pasteurizer sabotaging the pure REAL milk products and keeping the sheeple from consuming the REAL milk products the lord has given us. They want us weak and feeble and only untouched milk straight from the udder can grace my temple of a body. No Satan, not today! You will not take my REAL milk from me!

    Oh hey, I seemed to have dropped something ヽ(´ー`) /s

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    6 hours ago

    You shouldn’t be allowed to sell “raw” cheese. It’s unsafe.

    The people who did so should face charges analogous to, I don’t know, attempting to poison a bunch of people. Fucking nail them to the wall.

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      It can be relatively safe if the producers are held to high hygiene standards. The aging process kills most harmful microbes. If you’re pregnant, though, you should probably avoid cheese from raw milk unless it’s been heated.

      And you can pry my boerenkaas from my cold dead hands!

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        Perhaps you would prefer to live in a dystopia where the bread is full of sawdust and the milk is rotten.

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    Why are they hospitalizing these people and investigating the milk? Isn’t this what they wanted?