Brucellosis — Israel
It must be stressed that the sale of raw camel milk (RCM), described in the above ProMED-mail post, was not clandestine; for years this product has been openly advertised on the internet and through other public media. The most important question from the public health point of view remains unanswered: How is it possible that RCM is being sold to the public without intervention of the authorities?
_Brucella melitensis_ has been isolated from camel milk at least as early as 1992 (Ref. 1).
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