Cultures of tubercle bacilli inoculated into chocolate drink, milk and ice cream mixes were found, in this laboratory study, to be quickly killed by heat above slow pasteurization temperatures.
T HE PREVENTION of bovine tuberculosis in man is based fundamentally upon the eradication of the disease in the dairy cow. In the past thirty years numerous investigations have repeatedly disclosed the presence of living tubercle bacilli in market milk.A complete review of the literature sunmarized in the following table shows a wide variation in the number of positive findings by different observers.The collected data from all sources comprise a total of 16,700 specimens of market milk, of which 1,448, or 8.66 per TABLE I CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE SHOWING INCIDENCE OF TUBERCLE BACILLI IN MARKET MILK REPORTED FROM 1893 TO 1925 INCLUSIVE
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