Gutiérrez García José Manuel
Department of Medicine History, Faculty of Medicine, Associació Catalana d'Història de la Veternària, Univeritat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
Vet Herit. 2006 Nov;29(2):41-4.
As was the case with meat, the detection of the tuberculosis bacterium in cattle resulted in the attribution of an important role to milk in human tuberculosis infection. However, the case of milk had a more serious impact with graver consequences than did meat. In effect, milk was the principal foodstuff by means of which tuberculosis was passed from cattle to humans-indeed it could be said that it was the only effective vector that carried the bovine bacterium to the human organism. In light of this information, this article makes the case that milk acted as the most common means of transmission of bovine tuberculosis to humans, taking particular note of the problem of the hygienic milk supply in Spain.
与肉类的情况一样，在牛身上检测到结核杆菌后，人们认为牛奶在人类结核病感染中起到了重要作用。然而，牛奶的情况比肉类产生了更严重的影响，后果也更严重。实际上，牛奶是结核病从牛传播给人类的主要食物——确实可以说，它是将牛型结核杆菌传播到人体的唯一有效媒介。鉴于这些信息，本文认为牛奶是牛型结核病传播给人类最常见的途径，并特别关注了西班牙卫生牛奶供应的问题。
