I rail a lot about the use of relative and absolute risk, but I think it's worthwhile to point out that your risk of getting a food-borne infection is roughly 800x higher if you drink raw milk
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Sorry, should be *milk-related* food-borne infection In absolute terms, pasteurized milk/products cause an infection about once in every 10 billion servings unpasteurized milk/products cause an infection about once in every 100 million servings
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For context, if everyone in the US switched from pasteurized to unpasteurized milk products, you'd expect to see >40,000 extra infections and >1,000 extra hospitalizations caused by milk per year
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(And yes, before you ask, this is for the wonderful "clean" raw milk that people are so proud of, it's based on data from modern farms making modern raw milk that still carries a risk of infection)
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Canada too!
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"But muh brucellosis"
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Raw milk is just good to make tasty cheese, butter and cream. Drinking milk is just gross.
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