"Did someone say cheese?"
Posted on 06/05/2008 4:29:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Researchers have found a potentially deadly strain of tuberculosis infection spreading through Latino communities in Southern California and suspect the disease is being imported from Mexico in unpasteurized cheese.
Health officials in Orange County, though, say they have not seen any cases of the rare strain of tuberculosis in at least five years. They credit a long-running campaign to educate people about the dangers of eating unlabeled cheese and other dairy products.
Tuberculosis is an infection of the lungs that kills nearly 2 million people worldwide every year. The strain of tuberculosis that researchers found in San Diego County is more often linked to cattle, but can spread to people through raw dairy products.
That particular strain remains rare, even in San Diego County, the researchers concluded. But more than 90 percent of the people who were sickened by it were Latino, mostly from Mexico.
The researchers from the University of California, San Diego, pointed to a kind of cheese known as queso fresco, or fresh cheese, as the likely culprit. The soft, crumbly cheese is especially popular in Latino communities.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Mexico....The gift that keeps on giving.
So someone hacks a lung up in the cheese and they think nothing of it? yummy
I guess tribes that still make cheese in bathtubs think nothing of loogies in the finished product ...
Meanwhile Juan McCain, Hitlery Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama want to open up the borders with amnesty for illegals?
I hope they love cheese.
Okay, I’m off red meat. Now I’m off cheese, BARF!
In fact I’m going with the insect diet. Much cleaner.
Am immediately making 5 million million tons of this cheese available to all illegal Mexican aliens in US. Eat hearty!
Anyone remember Jalisco (cheese)?
Tuberculosis infects many different organs, not just the lungs.
Don’t buy Mexican cheese. The US has loads of safe gourmet cheeses. I would suggest Tillamook cheese if I were allowed to do that:)
Only pasteurized products from licensed dairies for me. There’s lots of nasty bugs lurking out there.
Well they are here eating the cheese that Americans won’t.
"Did someone say cheese?"
Our open border politicos are building us the perfect dystopia. One tuberculosis case at a time
Thanks Jorge Bush!!!
That’s why you should only buy Wisconsin cheese.
This article reads more like a hit on those of us who prefer raw milk products than an imported issue.
“Our open border politicos are building us the perfect dystopia. One tuberculosis case at a time”
Oh, c’mon, dennisw, don’t you know those illegal peasants are saving our economy!!!
Makes me ill. My grandmother, her mother and most of their relatives died from TB after the civil war. In the first decade of the 1900’s we addressed the problem and got that scourge out of our country....but to keep Mexico happy we have to just ignore 100 years of progress. I swear, the powers that be won’t be happy until all of us are living like it was 100 years ago.
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