13. Werner et al (1979) (cont'd)

On The Safety of Raw Milk (with a word about pasteurization)

November 3, 2005

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Werner et al (1979) (cont'd)

• Almost half of the patients had serious underlying non-infectious diseases, such as leukemias and lymphomas.
• With such patients, the immune system is often compromised as a result of the treatments which they are receiving.
• The combination of a deadly pathogen and an immunocompromised patient is obviously not a good one.
• Unfortunately, raw milk is oftentimes marketed as being a "health food" and some raw milk vendors, when comparing their product to a pasteurized milk, ascribe to it all sorts of curative properties, which are as yet largely unsubstantiated in the scientific literature.