CHEESE – TB
March 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA), of the USA, has issued a medical alert against eating cheese made from raw milk from Mexico, Nicaragua or Honduras, warning it can cause tuberculosis. The bacteria mycobacterium bovis can contaminate this cheese, causing one fatal and several non-fatal cases of TB in the New York region from 2001-2004, concluded the FDA.
THE FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA), of the USA, has issued a medical alert against eating cheese made from raw milk from Mexico, Nicaragua or Honduras, warning it can cause tuberculosis. The bacteria mycobacterium bovis can contaminate this cheese, causing one fatal and several non-fatal cases of TB in the New York region from 2001-2004, concluded the FDA.
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