What Is Campylobacteriosis?
Campylobacteriosis is an infection caused by campylobacter bacteria, which are sometimes carried by animals like chicken and cattle. It frequently causes diarrhea, but can also sometimes result in fever, nausea and vomiting, according to a 2024 study published in the National Library of Medicine. It is frequently spread through eating raw or undercooked chicken, and it takes very few campylobacter bacteria to sicken a human. A single drop of juice from raw chicken with the bacteria can sicken a human, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can also spread through travel and touching animals carrying the bacteria, including their food, water sources, feces and habitats (like chicken coops or barns).
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What Is Raw Milk?
Raw milk is milk that did not go through the pasteurization process—the standard method Louis Pasteur developed in the 1800s of treating milk with heat. The CDC warns against consuming dairy products that have not been subjected to pasteurization, which is done to eliminate diseases like E. coli, listeria and salmonella. Pasteurization does not diminish milk’s nutritional benefits, according to the CDC, but that hasn’t stopped raw milk from growing in popularity in recent years, especially within the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. It was once championed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who promised before President Donald Trump’s electoral victory in 2024 to end the Food and Drug Administration’s “war” on the beverage. However, Kennedy has been mostly silent on raw milk since taking over at HHS, and raw milk producers told the Wall Street Journal in April the secretary was “unresponsive” to their requests for meetings.
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