Texas health alert: Infant Botulism and the Risk of Honey Pacifiers
by Press Release from Outbreak News Today on (#43522)
BACKGROUND: Honey can contain spores of Clostridium botulinum, an organism that produces a potent neurotoxin known to cause severe illness in infants. Infant botulism occurs when C. botulinum spores in food, dust, or other materials are inhaled or ingested and germinate in the gut of infants who have not yet developed mature intestinal flora. For this reason, parents are ["]
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