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@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

My Grandfather was a Physician and ran a field hospital in #England during #WWII .

He kept a scrapbook including entire magazines from that time. In one of them we found the following gem...

"An Opponent of #Pasteurization", Lawrence P. Garrod, Country Life, September 29, 1944

My synopsis...

Commenting on "The Case Against #Pasteurisation" (note different spelling) by John P. Bibby, Dr. Garrod knocks down all the #deceptions, #obfuscations, & #misdirections in the subject text. I counted at least seven:

Obfuscating tables and figures
Unsound use of statistics
Assuming correlation implies causation
Cherry-picked data
Non-standardised data
False equivalence (infection vs vaccination)
Ignoring evidence

The arguments presented by Mr. Bibby are surprisingly similar to #RFKJr 's eighty years later:

The risks of drinking #rawmilk are minimal.
The benefits of raw milk outweigh the risks.
#Infections are good for children overall, even if some die.
The #publichealth "establishment" is preventing people from being healthy.

#Tuberculosis

#Pasteurisation #temperatures effectively inactivate #influenza A viruses in #milk, MedRxIV, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.30.24308212v1

At pasteurisation temperatures, viral #infectivity was rapidly lost and became undetectable before times recommended for pasteurisation. We then showed that an #H5N1 #HPAIV in milk was effectively inactivated by a comparable treatment, even though its #genetic #material remained detectable.

#Pasteurisation #temperatures effectively inactivate #influenza A viruses in #milk, MedRxIV, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.30.24308212v1

At pasteurisation temperatures, viral #infectivity was rapidly lost and became undetectable before times recommended for pasteurisation. We then showed that an #H5N1 #HPAIV in milk was effectively inactivated by a comparable treatment, even though its #genetic #material remained detectable.

#Pasteurisation #temperatures effectively inactivate #influenza A viruses in #milk, MedRxIV, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.30.24308212v1

At pasteurisation temperatures, viral #infectivity was rapidly lost and became undetectable before times recommended for pasteurisation. We then showed that an #H5N1 #HPAIV in milk was effectively inactivated by a comparable treatment, even though its #genetic #material remained detectable.

#Pasteurisation #temperatures effectively inactivate #influenza A viruses in #milk, MedRxIV, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.30.24308212v1

At pasteurisation temperatures, viral #infectivity was rapidly lost and became undetectable before times recommended for pasteurisation. We then showed that an #H5N1 #HPAIV in milk was effectively inactivated by a comparable treatment, even though its #genetic #material remained detectable.

#Pasteurisation #temperatures effectively inactivate #influenza A viruses in #milk, MedRxIV, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.30.24308212v1

At pasteurisation temperatures, viral #infectivity was rapidly lost and became undetectable before times recommended for pasteurisation. We then showed that an #H5N1 #HPAIV in milk was effectively inactivated by a comparable treatment, even though its #genetic #material remained detectable.

Another reason not to drink raw milk: H5N1 bird flu has infected cattle in the US and its RNA has made its way into store-bought milk, but the heat treatment of pasteurisation has likely killed the virus. In raw milk, the virus will be intact and able to infect.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/25/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-outbreak-likely-widespread/

#H5N1 #BirdFlu #Cattle #RawMilk #Pasteurisation #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #MilkProduction #DairyIndustry #ViralInfections #Virology #PandemicFlu #Influenza #FluVirus #AvianFlu #AvianInfluenza #CowFlu