CDC warns of raw milk exposure to drug-resistant Brucella after 3rdcase

A New York resident who drank raw milk from a Pennsylvania dairy has contracted the nation’s third known case of brucellosis caused by the antibiotic-resistant Brucella RB51 strain, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in a Health Alert Network (HAN) notice. The previous two illnesses occurred in 2017.

Source: CIDRAP