Tuberculosis From Milk

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 18, 1906

Tuberculosis From Milk

THE following opinion on the danger of contracting this fatal disease from the use of infected milk, was expressed recently by the governor of Illinois, after he had seen twenty out of twenty-eight cows slaughtered under his inspection, relegated to the rendering tank because they were full of tuberculosis:—

“I am convinced that tuberculosis has made a more general invasion of live stock than is generally believed, and I also am confident that such a condition, if not remedied, will have results more serious than the loss of cattle. My observation leads me to believe that it is unsafe to drink milk which is not known positively to be non-tubercular. The cattle which I have seen slaughtered and dissected to-day saturated with tuberculosis, ten days ago were furnishing milk for my family. I had no reason to believe that the milk sold me was otherwise than pure.”