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>You can't have an "epidemic" from drinking raw milk, since it's not a contagious disease. Is that really a requirement? Wikipedia says "infectious disease", a
by eurleif 11y ago
>You can't have an "epidemic" from drinking raw milk, since it's not a contagious disease.
Is that really a requirement? Wikipedia says "infectious disease", and, for example, here's a study that refers to an "epidemic" of foodborne illness: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7727673 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7727673
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoInteresting. I didn't appreciate that the word "epidemic" has such a broad use (from Wikipedia): An epidemic disease is not required to be contagious, and the term has been applied to West Nile fever and the obesity epidemic, among others. The E. coli O157:H7 the girls acquired was foodborne. We don't routinely practice cannibalism in this state, so there was no danger of the outbreak continuing to spread once the farm in question stopped distributing raw milk.