Laura Helmuth: A tragically common cause of death before pasteurization was food poisoning in children who were being weaned and starting to drink cow's milk. Pasteurization is one of the greatest public health successes in the history of the world, and now it's protecting us from H5N1 bird flu 🧪

A tragically common cause of death before pasteurization was food poisoning in children who were being weaned and starting to drink cow's milk. Pasteurization is one of the greatest public health successes in the history of the world, and now it's protecting us from H5N1 bird flu 🧪

Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu Virus in Milk, New Studies Confirmwww.scientificamerican.com Flash pasteurization destroyed H5N1 viral particles that were highly concentrated in raw milk, confirming that standard techniques can keep dairy products safe from bird flu

My 85 year old grandma " why would you want to drink raw milk?" People who have never seen people die from weird shit "the government just doesn't want me to taste this" My 85 year old grandma "vaccines are great" People that haven't seen people die weird "I want these diseases!"

And yet there are anti-pasteurisation hobbyists who see extremely basic health measures as an imposition on their freedom

If it were just them, then Darwin. But often it's their children too.

I grew up on a family dairy farm. I would never drink raw milk. Pasteurization FTW.

Raw milk is also a tuberculosis vector, so it was also a way of spreading TB to vulnerable populations.

SCOTUS: we need to ban pasteurization ASAP!

soon: a huge uptick in visitors to salt mines and Hot Springs, Arkansas

“1904, New York City – 20,000 kids two and under are dying from what they believe to be milk related illnesses.”—from discussion w @deborahb.bsky.social about her book Poison Squad for @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 1www.scientificamerican.com Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Deborah Blum talks about her book The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the 20th Century, Part 1.

Florida MAGAnon say Pasteurization is a hoax and is woke.

They have a raw milk FB group here that claims raw milk works better than vaccines.

oof do they also claim lemons can cure cancer

Yes, but only if you eat them with black pepper.

Same here in Pennsylvania. They’re also claiming religious discrimination because some Amish farmers want to sell unpasteurized milk. 🤷🏻‍♀️

"Also, did you hear about that fluoride they want to put in the water and that iodine in the salt!"

Our Governor has defunded Fluoridation of water utilities in Black / Democratic areas.

Man I wish this would only affect the fashy grifter that push for this shit like Raw milk and raw meat as some manly man shit.... but I know these grifter just sell lies and end up eating actual normal shit while their dumb and impressionable audience eat it up and that ends up affecting everyone

When I was a teenager I was super into George Orwell, and because he had lung disease very young, there are occasional mentions in his diaries of having to look for milk from cows that had been tested to be free from tuberculosis. So easy to forget how dangerous things were until recently.

And will be again thanks to freedumb.

Thought of you when I read this, @mcbazacophd.bsky.social

Isn’t that how Lincoln’s mom died?

These War-on-Truth men might get a lot of people killed with their wild lunacy.

Might?

I was thinking of a possible pandemic of the avian flu.

I've been wondering how well virus survive in cheeses made with raw milk.

I’ve read things that suggested that hard cheeses are OK, but avoid soft cheeses.

Yeah that would be my assumption but it would be nice to know for sure.

Science 👍🏼

one of those moments I question "should we Ban unsafe foods?" and I just land on : yes immediately.

but what about the casu martzu producers?

Given the safety risk? I would personally say Ban it. But That is only from a very brief look at it. Considering the EU don't approve of it; Yeah Ban it.

Mr Darwin, do your thing

Good news is MAGA will now refuse to drink pastuerized milk.

they can still transmit it to the rest of us, unfortch.

If Louis Pasteur were alive today, MAGA would be harassing him and issuing death threats.

Don't forget that before pasteurization, milk was one of the major vectors of TB

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