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Pregnant women who have Listeriosis with symptoms including fever should be treated with IV antibiotics, ACOG says.Promoting health and well-being for all, at all ages.ĭespite incredible progress, more than 6 million children die before the age of 5 each year, hundreds of women die in childbirth and AIDS is the leading cause of death among young people in sub-Saharan Africa. Newborns with Listeriosis who survive birth can suffer from respiratory issues, fever, rash, lethargy, and even death. The infection can pass to the fetus, and can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, premature labor, and low birth weight, the organization reports. Specifically, pregnant women are 20 times more likely to become infected than non-pregnant healthy adults, and about 17% of pregnant patients get listeriosis. While healthy people who accidentally consume listeria-infected foods don't usually get sick, people with compromised immune systems, including those who are pregnant, are more likely to get listeriosis and to get seriously ill from it, according to the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Spinach is not a food pregnant people are typically told to avoid in fact, it's encouraged as a great source of folic acid, which can help prevent miscarriages. That's why pregnant woman are advised to stay away from foods that are more likely to be affected by it, like deli meat, soft cheese, and raw sprouts. Stephanie Ros, an OB-GYN and maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Florida, told Insider. Listeria is a "big issue in pregnancy" and known cause of stillbirth, Dr. "This baby could have been born the day before this spinach was consumed and survived and thrived," Burdo told NBC.įresh Express and its parent company, Chiquita Brands International, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. The baby would have been Shabazz and her husband's first. The recall included the baby spinach the mother consumed, according to the suit.
There, providers found no fetal movement or heartbeat, and Shabazz delivered the stillborn baby the same day, the lawsuit says.Īn autopsy confirmed the sole cause of death was due to Listeria.įive days later, Fresh Express announced a "precautionary recall" on its leafy greens days due to a listeria outbreak in Pennsylvania and other states. On December 15, Shabazz returned to the hospital with bleeding and painful contractions.
While resting, her grandmother purchased Fresh Express baby spinach from Fresh Grocer for Shabazz to use in smoothies. Doctors confirmed the fetus was healthy and sent her home to quarantine, the press release says. Shabazz, then over 30 weeks pregnant, went to the hospital with flu-like symptoms on December 11, 2021. Shabazz was quarantining at home with COVID-19 when she consumed the spinach "Safety within the food chain must start with those who process, package, transport and sell us food," Merback Burdo added. "In addition to the tragic loss of this baby, we are fighting to raise awareness with the public who blindly relies upon food manufacturers and distributors to provide clean, safe and uncontaminated food products," attorney Julianna Merback Burdo, a partner in Wapner Newman's Catastrophic Injury Practice, said in the release. The woman, identified by NBC News as 25-year-old Mecca Shabazz, is suing Fresh Express and the grocery store for "wrongful death of the unborn child, and bodily injury and emotional stress to the expectant mother," the law firm's press release says.
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