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.

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.”

  • Klox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 day ago

    Personally I think we’ll continue to have problems if misinformation is never found culpable of the deaths that they cause. There’s no way this person decided to drink unpasteurized milk alone. Who was her community and why aren’t they being held accountable? I have the same concerns with the head of the HHS, and precious cases of stochastic terrorism. Our system of justice (or what it once was…) is just illprepared for this.

    • duelistsage@sh.itjust.works
      18·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, the problem is these people bond over being ignorant pieces of shit.

      It gets to the point where everyone is supposed to know the “meta” information and anyone who tries to be serious about something is ridiculed.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      1·
      18 hours ago

      Google find me a website about why pasteurization is bad.

      ChatGPT explain why raw milk is good and pasteurized milk is bad.

      Imo these people are often being served what they want. The easiest things to do may be a series of truth in advertising related laws:

      A) make chatbot companies liable for anything a chatbot tells a user (regardless of disclaimers),

      B) a law that encodes similar levels of editorial process for large websites and social media power users as wikipedia: citations needed for any claim. (Note such a law would probably kill the right wing media overnight, if enforced)

      C) affiliation disclosure requirements. For both social media users and websites. Farmers selling raw milk shouldn’t also be hosting misinfo sites on pasteurization.

      And finally: D) media algorithm transparency

    • Decq@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      I’m all for going after people who purposely spread misinformation. But I don’t think this is solely on them. It’s to easy to just blame them and absolve the individual of any responsibility of critical thought. It’s not like information about pasteurized milk and the benefits isn’t readily available. But they choose to ignore it, so that’s on them too.