Infant dies of listeria after mother consumes raw milk during pregnancy

[thewayne]

Sigh. And it happened in my state of New Mexico.

Raw milk is something that Robert FUCKING Kennedy Junior Mint advocates for, claiming it's healthy. It is decidedly not. It's swarming with pathogens that can be quite deadly which is why the death rate went down after pasteurization became a dairy industry standard practice.

So all together now: Hey, Hey, RFK: how many kids have you killed today!

The medical examiner can't directly tie the infant's death to the raw milk consumption of the mother except noting there's not many other places the child could have contracted listeria from.


What's worse, I just read today that women are now training for pregnancy like they train for doing a triathlon. Including the consumption of raw milk. Thus I expect this is just the first such report that we'll be seeing like this.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/newborns-death-spurs-raw-milk-warning-in-new-mexico/

Comments

[white_aster]

My inner microbiologist is screaming. This is generally a well-known tendency for most health risks (like vaccinatable diseases) - people forget how fricking terrible pertussis and major flu epidemics and polio and rubella and smallpox and listeriosis from raw milk, etc etc are. They forget how terrible it is for so many children to die. They forget why their great-grandparents embraced these technologies because they wanted their families to SURVIVE. The consequences have become so rare that people instead worry about much less dangerous things and ignore the 800-lb gorilla of childhood mortality.

Unfortunately, folks who are willing to say "yes, let's drink raw milk, surely that is safe" are unlikely to listen to their doctors. They need it to be shown to them via an actual sickness in their family before they realize that they gravely misjudged the risk they were taking. It happened with COVID vaccination, it's happening with measles, and it's gonna keep happening so long as these shysters keep hawking their products.

[thewayne]

(nods in agreement)  I was born with a heart/lung condition and had pneumonia when I was less than a year old.  They didn't isolate new-borns back at that time, and one of my relatives had a cold when they 'came to see the baby'.  I can't imagine how sick I got!  Heart surgery when I was 18 months resolved it, I've since had asthma all my life, and now a crashed immune system.  I just can't get over how some people can ignore science with things like raw milk.

(I keep current on my DPT and recently received an RSV vax)