Botulism in infants is linked to honey

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 6, 1992| Author: Daniel P. Puzo | Copyright information

Parents are again being warned not to feed honey to babies younger than 12 months after a record number of rare infant botulism cases was reported in California in 1991.

Other than environmental sources such as dust, the only known cause of infant botulism is honey.

Although the actual number of infections in California was small at 49, the increase was more than 70 percent over 1990 levels, according to unpublished data supplied to the Los Angeles Times by state officials.<...

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