New infant botulism outbreak puts fancy formulas under scrutiny

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The first thing to know is that the baby is all right now. She’s coming up on her second birthday, playful and curious. She chases the family dog around the house, trying to give him kisses, and mimics her dad by wiggling her hips as he shows her how to hula hoop.  But her home holds a few clues to her past. An oddly huggable orange stuffed animal shaped like Clostridium botulinum, the bacteria that causes botulism. And enshrined in plexiglass, a bottle of BabyBIG, the antitoxin treatment that saved her life when she was 7 months old. Read the rest…