FDA Warns Pregnant Women, Especially Hispanics, About Listeria-prone Foods
Style Magazine Newswire | 4/6/2018, 2:23 p.m.
The deaths of at least 78 newborns in the ongoing South African listeriosis outbreak has created one of those “teaching moments” about how especially dangerous the pathogen is to pregnant women. And the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is using the opportunity to warn Hispanic women that they need to pay special attention, not because they are any different than any other pregnant women, but because of some traditional ethnic foods they might eat. As the largest listeriosis outbreak plays out, part of the anger South Africans have experienced focused on the fact that 78 of the first 180 deaths were of infants. Pregnant women and their unborn and newborn children are among the highest risk groups for listeriosis, which is a foodborne disease. FDA says Listeria can affect all races and ethnic groups, but pregnant women are about 10 times more likely than other people to contract listeriosis.
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