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    6 months ago

    When someone catches it from drinking raw milk with the virus in it, it might affect other people too.

    What we really do not want to happen is for human-to-human transmission to start, and every time a human gets infected, it helps create a risk for a mutation that starts that going. We know that the virus is in the milk supply right now, so it’s not just some distant hypothetical.

    If you remember, we had a lot of criticism for China over the role that wet markets with live animals might have played in starting the jump to humans on COVID-19. I’d rather not turn right around and have us be responsible for creating a window for a new pandemic due to doing something similar.