Another "raw milk" incident...

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96. How quickly we forget our medical history

"People have been drinking raw milk for a long time, of course — at least since sheep and goats were domesticated in the 8th or 9th century B.C. Raw milk is rich in protein and fat, and milk from cows became a staple of the American diet in colonial times. When milk leaves the animal, however, it can also contain any number of pathogens, which is why most doctors consider pasteurization — subjecting milk to a short burst of heat followed by rapid cooling — one of the great public-health success stories of the 20th century. By eliminating most of the pathogens that cause disease, including E. coli, salmonella and listeria, they say, pasteurization has helped lower infectious-disease rates in the U.S. more than 90% over the past century."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1598525,00.html#ixzz1lXEPyeIm
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1598525,00.html

Thanks the same societal amnesia, parents are foregoing vaccinations for the very illnesses that killed thousands of children a few generations ago.