On Raw Milk

[draggonlaady]

From The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Has some pretty interesting stuff about how much of a problem there was prior to pasteurization. For instance, I had no idea that milk was one of the main vectors for transmission of tuberculosis.

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[sagaciouslu.livejournal.com]

My favourite word in the English language is 'scrofulous'. It has come to mean not only 'diseased' but also 'morally dissipated' (which I find endlessly amusing).

However, it comes from the disease 'scrofula' which one acquired from drinking tuberculosis infected milk. One of the symptoms was huge, weeping pustules forming on one's neck. (Being a medical-type person, you would have a better grasp on the whys and wherefores of this than I do.)

So. Scrofulous. I commend the word to your attention. And hopefully you will never encounter it except in the context of people who are generally disgustingly diseased and / or morally dissipated. And then but infrequently...

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

At a guess, never having looked into it, I'll say it's because TB is particularly good at forming abscesses, and it settles out in the lymph nodes of the throat (first defense against ingested badness) and forms huge abscesses, which rupture out through the skin.