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June 1939. "Day laborer and his family who live in the Arkansas River bottoms near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. This entire family was taking anti-rabic serum after drinking milk from a cow which had rabies. There were no public funds for this treatment and a local man was financing it." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The absolute despair of their condition is written on the father's face.
As in unpasteurized? If so theoretically yes, a human could then get rabies via milk if the bacteria wasn’t killed off but on the other hand there has never been a documented case of it happening either. Even cattle today are not typically vaccinated against rabies, which does in fact occur, though not common.
I suppose it’s all water under the bridge by now, or fussin’ over, er, spilled milk.
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