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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.

>“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick, but they recovered,” McAfee acknowledged before my visit.

>“We have a red-flag system here, where if there’s anything that gets really out of whack, they can immediately tag the milk, and it doesn’t go to anything but cheese,” McAfee told me. “Because, you know, cheese is resistant to pathogens.”
Research has shown that raw cheese is not, in fact, resistant to pathogens;

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u/Mephisto1822 — 26 days ago
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17 Americans from hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrive in U.S., including 1 who tested positive, another with symptoms

From the article…

>One American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services

I was just curious, it’s been a while since I’ve don’t PCR but we reported detected, not detected, or invalid. Is mild positive a thing? Is that like being a little pregnant?

cbsnews.com
u/Mephisto1822 — 2 months ago