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Got bacteria?
覺得細菌會吃進肚子里?
That's the question du jour for people on both sides of the debate about raw milk.
當今的生鮮奶問題使得人們爭論不休。
That's milk which has not undergone pasteurization, the century-old process of using heat to kill potentially harmful bacteria.
生鮮奶是未經巴氏殺菌處理過的牛奶。而巴氏殺菌是一種擁有百年歷史利用高溫將潛在有害細菌殺滅的工藝。
Thirty states allow consumers to buy raw milk.
目前有30個州允許消費者購買生鮮奶。
Proponents of raw milk contend that it provides health benefits and tastes better.
支持者們表示生鮮奶對健康有益而且嘗起來味道更好。
Opponents note that more people are getting sick from bacteria in the raw milk.
而反對一方則表示越來越多的人因為生鮮奶中的細菌而染病。
And the CDC recommends avoiding it.
而且疾控中心也不建議飲用生鮮奶。
A new study finds that between 2010 and 2012, 5 percent of all U.S. food-borne outbreaks with a known source were tied to raw milk.
現在一項新的研究發現2010至12年間，美國食物造成的疾病中5%都與生鮮奶這個已知源頭有關。
An outbreak is defined as two or more cases of similar illness resulting from ingestion of the same food.
因攝入相同食物造成兩種或更多類似疾病即可定義為疾病爆發。
The research is in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
這項研究已經在疾控中心的《新興傳染病》雜志上發表。
Microbes in raw milk—including salmonella,E.coli, campylobacter and Listeria—sparked an average of three outbreaks per year between 1993 and 2006.
在1993至2006年間生鮮奶中包括沙門氏菌，大腸埃希氏菌，彎曲菌及李斯特菌等的微生物平均每年引發3次疾病爆發。
But the new study finds an average of 13 such outbreaks annually from 2007 through 2012.
但這項新研究發現從2007年到2012年每年平均有13起疫情。
During that time raw milk consumption resulted in 979 illnesses and 73 hospitalizations.
那段時間生鮮奶的消耗造成979人患病，73人入院治療。
And more than 80 percent of such cases occurred in states where selling raw milk is legal.
以上這種情況中超過80%是在允許合法購買原料奶的州發生。
So caveat emptor, let the buyer beware.
所以貨物售出概不退換，購買者只能自己上心。
And the drinker even more so.
飲用者也更是如此。
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