More Illnesses Linked to Raw Milk Consumption in Minnesota

Illnesses in seven more people have been tied by to the consumption of raw milk from a farm in Sibley County, Minnesota that was implicated in an E coli outbreak earlier this year.

Three people were infected with a bacterium called campylobacter jejuni and the other four with a parasite, cryptosporidium parvum, after drinking raw milk.

All seven reported drinking raw milk, and those who named a source said it was the Hartmann Dairy Farm, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.

Laboratory tests determined the bacterium and parasite in most of the ill people were genetically identical to samples taken from the farm this summer.