Twenty-one people, including six children under the age of 10, were sickened after consuming raw milk from the same Florida farm, according to the state's Department of Health .

Raw milk is milk from cows, sheep, goats or other animals that has not been pasteurized, a heat-treating process that destroys potentially harmful bacteria, officials said in a Monday bulletin .

The 21 cases of Campylobacter and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections were all linked to the same unnamed farm, officials said. Seven people had to be hospitalized, and severe complications have been reported for at least two cases.

"STEC bacteria in its most severe form can result in hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) which is characterized by hemolysis and kidney failure, which is of particular c

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