Bovine Tuberculosis
Sir,—Mr G. G. Thomson, senior lecturer in veterinary science at Lincoln College, should substantiate his figures and his claim that milk is “a common source of infection” or confess they will not withstand examination. Captain C. P Powles .acting-pathologist of Ist New Zealand General Hospital at Helwan, Egypt, in 1942, remarked to me and others of his staff that it would be a very good thing
if everyone took a tuberculosis germ every day. Later, I checked and found support ip medical literature. He would surely be amused to be classed as “anyone so foolhardy.” If the bovine tuberculosis infection of the Christchurch milk supply just before the ban on raw milk was as heavy as then claimed, many thousands of consumers must have been swallowing much more than one live tuberculosis germ daily. Yet the epidemiological survey covering the period' gave consumers a clean bill of health concerning bovine tuberculosis.—Yours, ete., PAUL MALING. June 2, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 16
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