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Can you get tuberculosis if you eat beef products that weren't tested


Can you get tuberculosis if you eat beef products that weren't tested?

Infectious Diseases - 2 Answers
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1 :
Tuberculosis is an airborne disease. You can't get it from eating something.
2 :
Decades ago, raw milk from cows with the cow version of tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) was a serious problem and a common cause of TB in humans. Pasteurized milk and some rigid testing, quarantine and slaughter of infected cows has made it rare today in most countries



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