50. Suitcase Ware

Raw Milk-Associated Public Health Risks

January 24, 2007

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• Mycobacterium bovis cases linked to raw Mexican cheese, New York City, 2001-2004
• 35 cases (22 adults, 13 children) were reported.
• All 5 patients aged < 5 years had extrapulmonary disease (lymphatic and peritoneal), were born in U.S. to Mexican-born parents, had not traveled outside U.S., and had no epidemiologic link to other TB cases.
• 15-month-old boy with peritonitis died.
• 19 (83%) of 23 patients interviewed reported eating cheeses produced in Mexico.