{"id":8210,"date":"2024-11-27T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8210"},"modified":"2024-11-27T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:50:18","slug":"the-truth-about-raw-milk-and-why-experts-are-absolutely-horrified-by-the-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/27\/the-truth-about-raw-milk-and-why-experts-are-absolutely-horrified-by-the-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about raw milk and why experts are \u2018absolutely horrified\u2019 by the trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/2024\/nov\/26\/what-is-unpasteurized-raw-milk\">Guardian<\/a> US officials recently detected bird flu in raw milk. Public health officials in California&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/25\/california-raw-milk-bird-flu\">detected bird flu<\/a>&nbsp;in a sample of raw milk this month. The virus&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/26\/bird-flu-milk-texas-kansas-new-mexico\">first spread to dairy cattle<\/a>&nbsp;in the US in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discovery comes amid an increasingly heated public debate about the merits and drawbacks of raw milk. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/07\/election-trump-antivax-movement\">anti-vaccine activist<\/a>&nbsp;and Donald Trump\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/14\/trump-administration-rfk\">nominee<\/a>&nbsp;for secretary of health and human services (HHS), is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1849925311586238737?lang=en\">proponent<\/a>&nbsp;of raw milk and has claimed that as HHS secretary, he will support farmers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1816535637736227252\">who sell it<\/a>. At the same time, public health experts have continued to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/buy-store-serve-safe-food\/dangers-raw-milk-unpasteurized-milk-can-pose-serious-health-risk\">advise against<\/a>&nbsp;drinking raw milk, which is more likely to contain an array of harmful bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/2024\/nov\/26\/what-is-unpasteurized-raw-milk\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian US officials recently detected bird flu in raw milk. Public health officials in California&nbsp;detected bird flu&nbsp;in a sample of raw milk this month. The virus&nbsp;first spread to dairy cattle&nbsp;in the US in March. The discovery comes amid an increasingly heated public debate about the merits and drawbacks of raw milk. Robert F Kennedy Jr, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8211,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}