24 Sick in Colorado Goat Milk Outbreak
The number of E. coli O157:H7 and Campylobacter illnesses in people who reported drinking raw goat milk from Billy Goat Dairy in Longmont, Colorado, has grown from 16 to 24.
CBS 4 television news in Denver quoted a Boulder County health official with the revised number of cases in this Colorado raw milk outbreak. The station said the dairy remains closed by the health department for violations "for issues like sanitation and labeling.''
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It is illegal to sell unpasteurized milk in Colorado because of the human health risk due to pathogens. But health officials have reported that Billy Goat Dairy complies with the law by distributing its raw milk products to customers who own buy shares in dairy animals.
At least two children have been hospitalized in this outbreak.
Serious cases of Campylobacter infection can lead to permanent paralysis and Guillain-Barre' syndrome. Law firm Pritzker Olsen currently represents a Pennsylvania man in a raw milk lawsuit related to paralysis he suffered from Campylobacter.
Serious cases of E. coli O157:H7 infection can lead to hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) -- diseases that can lead to stroke, brain damage, hearth problems and damage to the central nervous system.
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