Raw milk outbreak has spread across most of red state (Idaho) -- and isn't over yet

[riversedge]

Raw milk outbreak has spread across most of red state — and isn't over yet
https://www.rawstory.com/nearly-60-idahoans-sick-after-drinking-raw-milk-in-past-two-weeks-officials-say/

Kyle Pfannenstiel, Idaho Capital Sun


June 5, 2026 6:35PM ET



Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced in a news release on Wednesday that most of the people reported being sick after drinking raw milk from two different milking operations in North Idaho and southern Idaho. The infections were reported starting May 19.

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In a statement, Department of Health and Welfare spokesperson AJ McWhorter said the agency didn’t name the milking operations “because this is a potential risk for any raw milk producer.”
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Raw milk isn’t pasteurized, a process that involves heating the milk to kill bacteria — like Campylobacter, E. coli, Listeria and Salmonella — that can be present in raw milk...............

[rampartd]

1. you have to drink the raw milk to catch it?

and people are still drinking raw milk?

there is a reason they pasteurize that stuff.

[RockCreek]

2. Good time for RFK Jr to visit then

He loves the stuff.
He can show off how healthy it is by guzzling a gallon from each dairy.

[vapor2]

5. Yup, we can all count on the moron to fix stuff

[RockCreek]

6. Hopefully he would end up in the hospital, at a minimum.

[RandySF]

3. Darwinism in action.

[RockRaven]

4. "... are investigating how..." -- by arrogant dumbassery and freedumb fetishism, that is how.

Yes raw milk is unnecessarily dangerous without any measurable benefit.
Yes it can happen to you and yours.
No this isn't nanny state-ism or an ivory tower egghead control conspiracy.

If you feed raw milk to any dependent in your care (child, elderly, disabled, whatever) you are a piece of garbage. You have no moral right to inflict that harm on them.