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Saleh@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

For starters i find it unlikely that a respiratory disease is transmitted through food. Possible sure. But by the logic of “possible” rather than “probable” we should never leave the house again.

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s not how viruses work. They evolve. They can become airborne. How are you not aware of this? It’s literally what happened with COVID.

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- Saleh@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  First of all COVID wasn’t transmitted from eating. It was likely transmitted from animals that were still alive at that market and it was always a respiratory disease.
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2
  
  And then again what is your conclusion? To ban all products and activities, that have a principal possibility of transmitting diseases? Because then nothing much is left to be done. So obviously the probability needs to be a relevant factor. Which brings us back to the question if you have any source of scientists indicating that raw milk would be a relevant vector for the transmission of respiratory diseases.
  
  As it stands it seems to me that you just dislike raw milk for some reason, which has nothing to do with it being a relevant risk for diseases to spread or not.
  
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    And then again what is your conclusion?
    
    Pasteurization. The Chinese started doing it 1000 years ago, so I’m not sure why you aren’t aware of it.
    
    As for the “some reason” why I dislike raw milk:
    
    Milk is an excellent medium for microbial growth,[18] and when it is stored at ambient temperature, bacteria and other pathogens soon proliferate.[19] The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says improperly handled raw milk is responsible for nearly three times more hospitalizations than any other food-borne disease source, making it one of the world’s most dangerous food products.[20][21] Diseases prevented by pasteurization can include tuberculosis, brucellosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and Q-fever; it also kills the harmful bacteria Salmonella, Listeria, Yersinia, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli O157:H7,[22][23] among others.
    
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization
    
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    Saleh@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    None of these diseases is viral. They are all bacterial. You said:
    
    I think you need to take a basic virology course
    
    As you have such adapt knowledge about virology: Which viral infection is transmitted through raw milk, especially one that can cause a pandemic and can you now finally provide actual scientific sources of scientists considering these an issue? Clearly you must have had these in your virology classes, where you took your in depth virology knowledge from.
    
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