Nearly two dozen people in Florida are ill after drinking raw milk from the same farm

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Nearly two dozen people have developed food poisoning in Florida after consuming tainted raw milk from the same farm, according to the state’s Department of Health.

Florida officials didn’t name the milk producer, but in a bulletin about the outbreak, they said they were warning about the “continued recent cases” because “sanitation practices in this farm are of particular concern … ” The health department’s notice did not say what kind of milk was involved, whether it came from a cow or a different animal.

People have developed Campylobacter and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, or STEC, infections. So far, seven of the 21 patients have been hospitalized. Six cases we