“Typhoid and scarlet fever, diphtheria, tuberculosis and various diarrheal diseases were all capable of being transmitted through the consumption of milk. But it seems that until 1886, when von Soxhlet made his suggestion, nobody thought of pasteurizing milk on a large scale. And what a difference pasteurization made! In 1891, one in every four infants in New York City died, many from drinking tainted milk. “
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-science-science-everywhere-you-asked/who-first-suggested-milk-be-pasteurized-make-it-safer-consumption
Except 99.9% (maybe more) of milk today is pasteurized.
No one is getting sick from it, unless it’s past date.
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As it should be.
