While the New Mexico Department of Health said it can’t pinpoint the baby’s exact cause of death, officials believe it could have been linked to the mother’s drinking raw milk during pregnancy.

Health officials in New Mexico are warning against consuming raw dairy products after a newborn baby in the state died from a listeria infection that they say was likely contracted when the baby’s mother drank raw milk during pregnancy.

The New Mexico Department of Health in a news release said that officials believe the mother consumed unpasteurized milk while pregnant, which could have led to the listeria infection.

Officials cannot pinpoint the exact source of the listeria that led to the baby’s death, the release said, but it noted that “the tragic death underscores the serious risks raw dairy poses to pregnant women, young children, elderly New Mexicans and anyone with a weakened immune system.”

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    1 day ago

    Dying from the end result of a superstitious, anti-science, anti-intellectual outlook…

    Nature is healing?

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        23 hours ago

        Cool, they can be used as a cautionary tale. If you want your child to survive infancy don’t be like that dumbass over there.

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        23 hours ago

        Well, ideally we could implement some sort of requirements for procreation.

        Unfortunately any such restrictions quickly becomes eugenics. It seems like we could find a little space between some racial purity bullshit and “Dem doctors up in that hospital are killin’ lil Cooter Jr with all dem fucking needles, injectin’ him full of the 5g microchips and the autism!”

        But, if you just dial the resolution back: it’s not their kids - their stupid is killing the whole species as well as the biosphere. Ergo, nature is healing…

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      The newborn never had a chance to defy the idiocy of their parents, as many of us have.

      Antuvaxxers are in the same boat… They are vaccinated, but they are killing their children.

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      It will never fail to impress me how far dumberikans are willing to go to validate their own willful ignorance. Like, even killing their own kids is a price they are willing to pay to be in the cult of stupidity. Beyond belief.