This just in: raw sewage is bad for you

I was reading the BBC's coverage of the sewage crisis currently unfolding in the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, when I came across this quote by a chap named Gordon Greenhill from Edinburgh City Council

Any raw sewage has human pathogens in it which has the capacity to make people ill.

I must say I was shocked. A quick search on Wikipedia confirmed that raw sewage is indeed bad for you. Needless to say I promptly cancelled my plans to go up to Scotland and swim in the stuff.